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Legal Officer (Adults)

Employer
Torbay Council
Location
Torbay, Devon
Salary
£22,183 – £24,491
Closing date
25 Jun 2021
Reference
03508

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Legal Officer (Adults)

Torbay

£22,183 – £24,491

Full time, permanent

Reference: 03508

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a busy, committed in-house legal team, which delivers an efficient and high quality legal service to its clients, adult social care and community health teams within Torbay Council and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation trust. We are looking for an experienced and motivated Adult Social Care legal professionals to be part of our friendly legal team.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop existing skills and support our clients by providing legal advice across a wide spectrum of adult services law, including community care, mental health, mental capacity and all adult social care matters, including adult safeguarding, ordinary residency disputes, judicial review, policy issues and court of protection litigation.

This post will carry a caseload. The Senior Lawyer will lead on and deal with more complex matters.

You will be a flexible team player with excellent communication and IT skills, and be able to work to deadlines supporting the team with a varied and busy caseload. We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running so experience in adult social care law is essential. Local authority experience is not necessary. In return we offer:

  • Generous salary
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
  • A Career Average Re-valued Earnings (CARE) pension scheme through Peninsula Pensions
  • A great working environment with flexible hours
  • Family friendly benefits
  • A wide range of lifestyle discounts and health and wellbeing benefits
  • Learning and development opportunities 

We would welcome applications from suitably experienced candidates. We would also consider applications from newly qualified candidates

We are a COVID Secure Workplace and as such the legal team are currently working from home until further notice.  It is likely that a blend of home and office working will be adopted for officers within the legal department.

For an informal discussion please contact Esha Kansal on 01803 207158 or Janine Bond on 01803 207149.

For further information and to apply, please visit: https://www.torbay.gov.uk/council/jobs/applying-for-a-job/

Closing date: 25 June 2021

Company

Torbay Council

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