Senior Childcare Lawyer

2 months ago


Bury, United Kingdom Oldham Council Full time

**Bury Council**

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**Senior Lawyer: Childcare Lawyer (Social Care Legal Team)**

**Team: Legal Services**

**Salary**:Grade 16, £49,498 - £50,512 per annum

**Hours: 37 Mon
- Fri, some meetings outside of regular hours may be required**

Are you a senior legal professional looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can use your skills to make a real difference? If so, we want to hear from you.

This is an exciting time to be joining Bury Council; a growing council and an equally growing legal services team, we are undertaking a number of exciting development plans across our six townships.

Bury Legal Services plays a vital role in supporting the council's vision for the borough, and we are looking for a Senior Lawyer to join our team and contribute to delivering high quality legal services to our several client departments.

**What you'll be doing**

As a Senior Lawyer, you will lead upon and manage a variety of interesting and rewarding matters advising children & young people social care colleagues. You will also have the opportunity to provide significant input to the development and implementation of our legal compliance policies and procedures.

Your experience of handling social care queries including court proceedings whilst prioritising a full personal caseload of legal matters/cases within these areas of law will put you in good stead for success in this role and support your continued development within our service should you wish to progress.

At Bury Council, we are advocates of developing our teams, especially in terms of apprenticeships, and you will be supervising junior members of the team in these roles. We are an organisation that looks to promote collaborative working styles.

What our clients say about us
- “_Bury's legal team are integral to our service delivery and ensuring that timely permanence plans are achieved for our children. At Bury we work closely as a team to achieve the best possible outcomes for children. Our legal team are passionate, knowledgeable about the work they undertake and highly regarded by senior management and social work teams._”_
- _What our team say about us
- The legal team at Bury is a supportive environment in which to develop skills and knowledge to ensure high quality legal representation for children’s services. Colleagues and management team offer great support to every member of the team._
- “The best part about working within a Local Authority legal team, is that you get to work on interesting, complex, and important cases from the get go.”_
- “The people within legal services are really supportive and the managers genuinely value your opinion and seek to support your progression, if you want to work on something in particular or have a specific interest, they will act on that.”_
- “What I really enjoy about my role at Bury Council, is that I get to see the positive impacts of the work I do and build really positive client relationships with those within the Council.”_

“Working in a friendly team who each cover one another and assist where required is great and helpful, with the addition to be able to bounce ideas and discuss matters with one another, it is a continuous learning curve.

Relaxed and friendly atmosphere with the flexibility of hybrid working, it is the perfect set up. Very good and technical case management platform which performs a variety of tasks and assists in management of ongoing cases.”

**What you'll need**

*** To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

- A strong track record of success for this senior role.
- Knowledge and experience of Childcare law and procedures.
- The ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.

**What we offer**
- Generous Pension Scheme.
- Generous annual Leave, including additional days for Volunteering as well as the option to purchase extra leave.
- Bespoke Management development programme.
- Flexible and agile working arrangements.
- Supportive and inclusive environment.
- Personal Development plan to support career growth.
- Proud Living Wage employer.
- Variety of discounts and benefit schemes.

Closing date: Monday 14th April 2024.

To hear about the benefits for working with Bury Council, please visit A good employer | greater jobs

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore, we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

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