Lawyer

at  Hertfordshire CC

About the team
Working in a large and successful legal team that provides comprehensive legal service in all areas, our lawyers are crucial to the County Council’s continued success. We have high standards for our services and we are pleased to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Law Society’s Lexcel quality standard assessor.
With more than 100 employees, it is one of the biggest legal departments in local government and offers complete legal service in all areas to both the County Council, District Councils and to other public sector bodies.
Hertfordshire County Council is a great opportunity for ambitious, passionate and organised Lawyers who want to join a big and flourishing public sector legal team.

Requirements

• You will be a qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive
• Demonstrable ability to manage a varied and demanding caseload
• Strong written and oral communication skills, used to build and maintain working relationships, and to produce and present reports
• Experience in working effectively as part of a team
• It is possible that the role could involve travel to other parts of Hertfordshire so access to your own transport would be beneficial
• We welcome applicants who possesses excellent drafting skills and the ability to negotiate documents for a wide range of matters.
• Previous experience of working within a Local Authority environment would be useful but is not essential.
• Specific requirements for relevant teams can be found below

Our Legal Teams

ENVIRONMENT

Giving legal advice and support to client departments and District Councils on various planning, highways and environmental issues, the Environment Law Team is looking for someone with extensive knowledge of the broad range of environmental work, including s106 agreements, highway agreements, minerals planning, waste planning, advising planning committee, rights of way, advising on the effects of changing legislation and case law.

PROPERTY

We are looking for applicants who have excellent drafting skills and the ability to negotiate documents for different property transactions. You should have extensive knowledge of the wide range of property work, including Landlord and Tenant matters, conveyancing, and researching and advising on the effects of changing legislation and case law, and also be interested in learning more about other areas, such as agricultural law.

CHILDCARE LITIGATION

Providing high quality litigation and advice service to our Children’s Services department, we are looking for candidates with a working knowledge of the Children Act 1989, Adoption and Children Act 2002, Public Law Outline 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014, to investigate and advise on the implications of changing legislation and case law, attend and advise at legal planning meetings, to conduct advocacy before the Family Court and manage a caseload of child care matters.
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information

Please refer the Job description for details