Senior Legal Assistant

23 hours ago

Truro, United Kingdom Cornwall Council Full time

The children’s social care legal team are recruiting a full time senior legal assistant. The role will include conducting and progressing straightforward legal matters within the specialist area of education (including SEND), health and social care. The role includes a variety of work and an opportunity to develop skills across the whole area of the team’s specialism but will focus mainly on the area of public law children work.

The role will be to provide support and assistance to other lawyers within the team in matters of legal research, drafting legal documents, attendance at court and reporting back on outcomes. There will be an opportunity to hold some of your own cases and undertake straightforward advocacy.

You can expect the opportunity to support and work on varied and challenging cases including in the following areas:

- Fostering and adoption advice
- Legal advice and support to children’s services during the PLO process
- Advice to schools and academies, including parental responsibility, pupil welfare and safeguarding
- School admissions and exclusions, transport, including representation and advice at appeals
- SEND, including representation at Tribunals

This is a varied and interesting role working with a very friendly but busy Service. Support and training will be provided. Don’t worry if you don’t have local government experience as we’ll give you the support you need to develop and learn that area.

There are many benefits of working for Cornwall Council such as a defined benefit pension scheme, competitive salary, family friendly policies and flexible working. This role can be carried out largely remotely but with some office-based working as required to support the service needs. We can discuss this with you during the recruitment process and we are open to discussion about flexible working.

For an informal conversation or to obtain more details about the role, please contact Alison White on
01872 322222

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified, our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here

We are open to discussion about flexible working.

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