Lawyer (G10)

Job Description

Job Category : Legal
Location :Lincolnshire County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £20.85

PURPOSE OF JOB:
Contribute to the delivery of services for Legal Services Lincolnshire. Assist, as
appropriate, with:
• Providing an integrated approach to performance management, quality
standards and service delivery
• Embedding new ways of thinking and working
• Developing and maintaining strong, positive working relationships with
commissioners, partners external clients and their teams/partners and
across service areas as appropriate
To provide high quality efficient and effective legal and administrative advice and
services to the County Council and external customers and assist and support
the County Council’s Monitoring Officer in discharging his/her duties and
responsibilities.
To provide legal advice to members and senior officers of the Council, partners
and other clients and carry a workload of appropriately complex and high profile,
high risk matters and advise as required on public law and governance in support
of clients’ decision-making processes.
To role model and promote the values and culture of the service including the
highest degrees of flexibility openness and collaboration and the provision of risk-
based, solution focused advice centred on enabling clients to achieve their outcomes.

To role model and promote the values and culture of the service including the
highest degrees of flexibility openness and collaboration and the provision of risk-
based, solution focused advice centred on enabling clients to achieve their
outcomes.
To provide day to day leadership, advice and guidance to colleagues relating to
work within own area of responsibility
Continuously look for synergies and efficiency savings across area of
responsibility.
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MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES, TASKS & DUTIES
The specific accountabilities of this role will be flexible and will change to meet
the needs of the organisation as required but will include (or be equivalent in
nature to) those listed below:i a) To provide high quality efficient and effective legal and administrative
advice and services to the County Council, partners and external
customers to the highest standards of professional conduct and ethics
and in a way that furthers and promotes good customer care within
Legal Services Lincolnshire.
b) To undertake all legal services work whether advice, case work or
assistance to other fee earners as required within the area of work
designated in the post outline for the time being with minimal
supervision and professional support.
c) To give legal procedural and propriety advice to senior officers, elected
members or other persons or bodies whose conduct or activities fall
within the remit of the Monitoring Officer’s duties as appropriate for
grade and to follow all instructions of the Monitoring Officer or any
deputy in relation to the conduct of any monitoring officer activities.
d) To make the Monitoring Officer, the Chief Legal Officer, an Assistant
Chief Legal Officer (or any other deputy) aware of any:-
– matters that are of a critical nature
– matters that are politically sensitive or high profile
– problems in any areas of service delivery or Council activity
– instance in which any advice given by him/her has been refused or
ignored, or
– any proposals, decisions, actions or omissions that have, or would
contravene any rule of law or code of practice or conduct or amount
to maladministration.