Team Leader -Property, Commercial & Development

What's involved with this role: Interim Team Leader –Property, Commercial & Development Bradford 5260056 Key Requirements:

• Solicitor entitled to practice in England and holding a current practising certificate or a barrister.
• Relevant Experience in preparation of local plans including submission and examination. Including preparing complex reports and documents.
• Significant post qualification experience of legal practice (including personal responsibility for delivering complex projects/matters) is required in the following areas of law: - property and/or planning and highways.
• Experience of developing Housing and employment needs, allocation and policies to ensure a sound local plan.

The role is to take the lead on key strategic elements of the local plan to finalise the Regulation 19 content and supporting evidence including bridging documents and alignment with a range of appraisals and linked technical work.The role will in particularly lead on the housing and employment strands of work with an overview of the policies and the approach to scale and distribution as well as site allocations and appraisals. In collaboration with the team leader the role will provide technical and expert advice to team members on content and supporting documents. Key Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to match the resources of the Legal Service to the legal work required to be done and to manage any change.
• Be responsible for delivering any change within the team required by.
• Be responsible for monitoring workloads in the team and to liaise with clients to identify priorities.
• Oversee the legal work within the team.
• Be the advisor in the most complex and/or sensitive cases.
• Oversee the allocation of work within the Team.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please