Job Introduction
Staffordshire County Council is a modern, progressive, and forward-thinking authority that is ambitious and empowers its employees to be courageous and innovative in their approach.
Staffordshire Legal Services is a large in-house corporate legal team, offering a significant breadth of experience and expertise. We support and retain our lawyers, trainees and support staff by offering a wide variety of work, an extensive benefits package and offering training and mentoring to aide their progression. We want everyone to enjoy their work, feel challenged and appreciated for what they do and to make a positive difference to the lives of the people of Staffordshire. People are often unaware that Legal Services support the Council to fulfil every function when delivering its agenda and priorities, in addition to the Staffordshire pension fund, and a wide range of external clients. This keeps the work interesting, challenging and often high value and high profile.
We genuinely recognise the benefit of achieving the right work life balance and our extensive package of benefits support this. Lots of organisations offer this however our staff survey reliably informs us that our work ethos truly delivers this. Our package includes a generous holiday entitlement, increasing significantly with service, and an additional annual leave purchase scheme. Flexible and term time only working, agile working, employee travel and entertainment discounts, a local government pension scheme, optional car lease scheme and a staff parking discount scheme. We also offer family friendly polices such as maternity, adoption, paternity, and parental leave.
Main Responsibilities

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Completing all aspects of moderately complex childcare casework and representing the client department at all case related meetings and appropriate court hearings with limited supervision
• Conduct advocacy in court in childcare matters
• Supporting the wider Legal Services Unit with casework, with required training and supervision
• Adherence to the Legal Services Unit’s quality standards (Lexcel) including time-recording in order to maintain professional standards
• To undertake in-service training as required by the training plan and to facilitate in-service training of staff members/client department
• To handle confidential data sensitively and securely in accordance with policy

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for you to be a qualified Chartered Legal Executive, Solicitor or Barrister with:

• A comprehensive understanding of childcare law
• An in-depth understanding of the work done by this public sector, although previous local government experience is not essential
• An ability to clearly, confidently and effectively communicate
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Effective time management, prioritisation skills and an ability to work under the demands of competing pressures
• An ability to delegate work in order to generate capacity

• Completing all aspects of moderately complex childcare casework and representing the client department at all case related meetings and appropriate court hearings with limited supervision
• Conduct advocacy in court in childcare matters
• Supporting the wider Legal Services Unit with casework, with required training and supervision
• Adherence to the Legal Services Unit’s quality standards (Lexcel) including time-recording in order to maintain professional standards
• To undertake in-service training as required by the training plan and to facilitate in-service training of staff members/client department
• To handle confidential data sensitively and securely in accordance with polic