Senior Lawyer (Children & Families Legal)

Senior Lawyer (Children & Families Legal) needed in Manchester, £55phPAYE – Reference: 000B 5744 / 1

Ideally will attend the office but willing to consider remote only options.

Ideally will undertake advocacy – if remote only would ask that they undertake remote advocacy.

• Build and maintain excellent client relations acting as a role model to achieve service and council wide objectives.
• Providing timely, high quality and accurate legal, tactical and strategic advice.
• Use advanced analytical skills to interpret complex information to identify legal issues, risk and other implications for clients.
• To communicate both verbally and in writing to a consistently high standard with the ability to translate and present complex legal advice in a way that can be clearly understood by a variety of audiences.
• Where appropriate, to demonstrate exceptional advocacy skills achieving the best possible outcomes for the client.
• Demonstrate exceptional negotiating and influencing skills to achieve the best possible outcomes for clients.
• To be solution focussed always looking positively for ways in which the clients desired outcomes can be achieved.
• Research law and procedure to a high professional standard and keep ahead of legal developments.

This is a full time role on atemporary contract basis.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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