Legal Adviser

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 234929**Salary**:

- £30,455 - £41,158- National: £30,455 - £35,518; London (homeworking only £35,493 - £41,158**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- 2B**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- up to 12 months maternity cover**Business area**:

- COP - Corporate Service and Business Development**Type of role**:

- Legal Services**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- College of Policing Ryton, CV8 3EN; Harperley Hall, DL15 8DS; or Harrogate, HG3 1UF. Homeworking is also available.About the job

**Summary**:
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

**About us**:
We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. Working together with everyone in policing, we share the skills and knowledge officers and staff need to prevent crime and keep people safe. We set the standards in policing to build and preserve public trust and we help those in policing develop the expertise needed to meet the demands of today and prepare for the challenges of the future.

We have three complementary functions:

- Share knowledge and good practice - We create and maintain easy access to knowledge, disseminate good practice, and facilitate the sharing of what works.
- Set standards - We set standards for key areas of policing which help forces and individuals provide consistency and better service for the public.
- Support professional development - We set requirements, accredit, quality assure and deliver learning and professional development, promote diversity and wellbeing, and help to nurture and select leaders at all levels.

Following the publication of the Fundamental Review into the College we are committed to boosting professionalism, improving leadership and driving consistency, by being better connected, more dynamic and more relevant.

**Job description**:

- Applications are invited for the post of Legal Adviser.
- We are offering an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal role within Legal Services as a Legal Adviser, with a current focus on Crime and Criminal Justice. The post-holder must have excellent communication skills and will need to build strong relationships with all stakeholders to ensure that excellent service-levels are maintained, and College interests are protected. The role entails managing a complex workload with evolving priorities where no two days are the same. This will require an agile approach to decision-making and a willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business. The post-holder should be adept at mitigating / managing potential risks or reputational impact. Knowledge of the wider policing and criminal justice landscape would be an advantage.**Responsibilities**:
All applicants must have a Law degree or an equivalent Level 6 legal qualification to apply.

Please see job description for full details of the role.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Proven ability quickly to build rapport creating strong, effective, credible and successful partnerships.
- Ability and confidence to present and lead discussions on complex and/or contentious issues and, where appropriate, use simple, succinct terms to lay audiences orally and in writing.
- Excellent research skills with the ability to summarise accurately and write in a clear, concise and engaging way of a mixed audience, picking out key points from detailed information on complex issues.

**Benefits**:
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits. The benefits we can offer include:

- Defined benefit pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
- Educational funding and study leave
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Flexi-time (for certain grades)
- Flexible working hours
- Childcare vouchers
- Benenden Healthcare
- National Dental Plan
- Discount scheme which provides cut-price on-line shopping
- Free employee support line
- Interest free loans for travel.
- Staff networks: You will have the opportunity to join our employee-run networks to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be heard. There are currently 6 staff networks; Diversity Champions, LGBT, Carer’s, Women’s, Parenting and our Diverse Ethnic Action network. Each network has access to an executive level sponsor.

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**Security**:
- See our vetting charter.- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security stand