Senior Legal Officer

What's involved with this role: Interim Senior Legal Officer Bristol 5260414 Key Requirements:

• Qualified barrister/solicitor/legal executive/licensed conveyancer (level 6) or extensive equivalent experience, as appropriate to the practitioner’s area of specialism.
• Prosecution experience – trading standards & consumer protection law, Housing Act prosecutions, environmental health prosecution work.
• Criminal case preparation/litigation/procedure.
• Regulatory advice work – general local authority experience in this regard but emphasis on Private Housing work.
• Advocacy experience – Magistrates Court trials/appeals
• Licensing Act 2003 experience – advice/committee work/appeals.
• Ability to travel to Bristol once or twice a month to attend Court/Committees informing managers on People issues and develop HR for customers and services.

• Provide a comprehensive legal service relevant to the practitioner’s area of specialism which may include undertaking inquiries, tribunals and attendance at court.
• Provide professional advice and guidance to services, including information on legal developments.
• Draft detailed and complex documentation including pleadings, contracts and agreements, and leases and deeds as appropriate.
• Provide challenge to services to ensure that work is undertaken in the best interests of the council and in accordance with its policies, procedures and codes of practice.
• Analyse and interpret a variety of complex information in order to solve problems and reach solutions.
• Undertake research and project work, preparing and presenting reports and information as required.
• Undertake training and continued professional development in accordance with professional requirements.
• Demonstrate a significant degree of initiative and responsibility in adopting a problem-solving approach to the work.