Solicitor - Children
Legal Services

Corporate and Commercial Services

Legal Services

Solicitor – Children

Ref: SM3/OL-20185

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary:  SM 3 £45,637-£48,456

Hours: per week 36.66 per week

Based: Level 4, Civic Centre, West Street, Oldham, OL1 1UL

Closing date: 30th September 2018

Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC

 

Previous applicants need not apply

 

Role overview

 

To provide the professional services of a solicitor to the Council and other bodies within the Directorate for Health and Well-being.

 

 

Key responsibilities

  • To advise Council, Executive, Committees, Officers and Departments of the Council on legal matters primarily, but not exclusively, relating to all areas of Social Services and Education including attendance at evening meetings as requested.
  • Advocacy in contested and uncontested hearings in Court and when necessary instruction of Counsel at the Family Court, including the preparation and management of cases.
  • Drafting and settling of legal documentation with particular reference to Children’s Social Care.
  • Conduct of litigation with particular reference to Children’s Social Care and Education matters.

Key Requirements

 

To succeed in this role you will need as a minimum:

  • Extensive experience of advising Social work clients and their managers.
  • Extensive post qualification experience in conducting child care proceedings.
  • Advocacy experience including Contested Hearings at Court.
  • Ability to advise competently in complex child care matters and to assimilate and advise upon evidential matters relating thereto.

Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc

Job Description & Person Spec.docx 

 

 

About Us

 

For more information, including videos of our team members talking about what it’s like to work for Oldham Council, please visit our blogs:

 

About Oldham

Working for Oldham Council

Staff benefits

 

For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice: https://www.oldham.gov.uk/downloads/file/4967/employment_privacy_notice_-_oldham_council_10

 

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

 

Location
Oldham Civic Centre
Vacancy Description
 

Corporate and Commercial Services

Legal Services

Solicitor – Children

Ref: SM3/OL-20185

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary:  SM 3 £45,637-£48,456

Hours: per week 36.66 per week

Based: Level 4, Civic Centre, West Street, Oldham, OL1 1UL

Closing date: 30th September 2018

Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC

 

Previous applicants need not apply

 

Role overview

 

To provide the professional services of a solicitor to the Council and other bodies within the Directorate for Health and Well-being.

 

 

Key responsibilities

  • To advise Council, Executive, Committees, Officers and Departments of the Council on legal matters primarily, but not exclusively, relating to all areas of Social Services and Education including attendance at evening meetings as requested.
  • Advocacy in contested and uncontested hearings in Court and when necessary instruction of Counsel at the Family Court, including the preparation and management of cases.
  • Drafting and settling of legal documentation with particular reference to Children’s Social Care.
  • Conduct of litigation with particular reference to Children’s Social Care and Education matters.

Key Requirements

 

To succeed in this role you will need as a minimum:

  • Extensive experience of advising Social work clients and their managers.
  • Extensive post qualification experience in conducting child care proceedings.
  • Advocacy experience including Contested Hearings at Court.
  • Ability to advise competently in complex child care matters and to assimilate and advise upon evidential matters relating thereto.

Oldham Right to Work in the UK.doc

Job Description & Person Spec.docx 

 

 

About Us

 

For more information, including videos of our team members talking about what it’s like to work for Oldham Council, please visit our blogs:

 

About Oldham

Working for Oldham Council

Staff benefits

 

For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice: https://www.oldham.gov.uk/downloads/file/4967/employment_privacy_notice_-_oldham_council_10

 

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy.