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Job Details:
Salary range:
£54,684 - £74,487 per annum Work location:
Kensington Town Hall, Kensington, London W8 7NX Hours per week:
36 Contract type:
Permanent Closing date:
16 February 2025 Interview date:
Week commencing 24 February 2025 Contact details for Informal discussion:
Kirti Shori, Principal Solicitor via email on
kshori@westminster.gov.uk , or Loy Phillips, Project Officer, via email on
lphillips2@westminster.gov.uk
About Us:
The Bi-Borough Legal Services Department at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people like Aruna work on projects that are helping to regenerate our borough and transform residents' lives.
The Church Street Estate is an exciting, vibrant area and home to a diverse range of people, but has a number of issues that have led to social and economic exclusion for many. Our ambition is to improve the quality of life for everyone in the area, and we aim to do this by building 1,750 high quality homes, creating new green spaces and playgrounds, and providing services that will support the community's health and wellbeing.
To learn more about our plans, visit
churchstreet.org .
The Role:
As a Solicitor, you can make your own powerful contribution. Your main role will be to provide expert professional, procedural and technical legal guidance to colleagues, managers, partner agencies, Members and Officers on all matters relating to child protection.
Working alongside the Housing and General Litigation Team, you'll undertake both routine and complex cases - including those that might be high profile, politically sensitive or financially weighted. You'll conduct proceedings, public enquiries, appeals and judicial reviews in the Courts and before Tribunal and appear as an advocate as appropriate. Part of the role includes drafting, preparing and collating statements of case and other legal documentation, as well as advising on law and evidence, interviewing witnesses and drafting statements and affidavits.
Please refer to the
Job Description
for more information.
About You:
A qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Fellow of CILEx with at least five years of relevant post qualification experience, you'll have demonstrable experience of dealing with and advising on local authority's duties and powers in relation to children and young adults.
With a broad knowledge of Local Government law, and the ability to work constructively with Council members to a high degree of political sensitivity, you'll be capable of effectively communicating standard and complex legal issues to Members and officers, and of providing cogent legal advice accordingly.
On a personal level, you'll be a natural communicator with excellent negotiating and influencing skills. You'll be diplomatic, enterprising and detail focused, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. This is a fantastic opportunity to put people across Westminster first, and to supercharge your career in the process.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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Salary range:
£54,684 - £74,487 per annum Work location:
Kensington Town Hall, Kensington, London W8 7NX Hours per week:
36 Contract type:
Permanent Closing date:
16 February 2025 Interview date:
Week commencing 24 February 2025 Contact details for Informal discussion:
Kirti Shori, Principal Solicitor via email on
kshori@westminster.gov.uk , or Loy Phillips, Project Officer, via email on
lphillips2@westminster.gov.uk
About Us:
The Bi-Borough Legal Services Department at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people like Aruna work on projects that are helping to regenerate our borough and transform residents' lives.
The Church Street Estate is an exciting, vibrant area and home to a diverse range of people, but has a number of issues that have led to social and economic exclusion for many. Our ambition is to improve the quality of life for everyone in the area, and we aim to do this by building 1,750 high quality homes, creating new green spaces and playgrounds, and providing services that will support the community's health and wellbeing.
To learn more about our plans, visit
churchstreet.org .
The Role:
As a Solicitor, you can make your own powerful contribution. Your main role will be to provide expert professional, procedural and technical legal guidance to colleagues, managers, partner agencies, Members and Officers on all matters relating to child protection.
Working alongside the Housing and General Litigation Team, you'll undertake both routine and complex cases - including those that might be high profile, politically sensitive or financially weighted. You'll conduct proceedings, public enquiries, appeals and judicial reviews in the Courts and before Tribunal and appear as an advocate as appropriate. Part of the role includes drafting, preparing and collating statements of case and other legal documentation, as well as advising on law and evidence, interviewing witnesses and drafting statements and affidavits.
Please refer to the
Job Description
for more information.
About You:
A qualified Solicitor, Barrister or Fellow of CILEx with at least five years of relevant post qualification experience, you'll have demonstrable experience of dealing with and advising on local authority's duties and powers in relation to children and young adults.
With a broad knowledge of Local Government law, and the ability to work constructively with Council members to a high degree of political sensitivity, you'll be capable of effectively communicating standard and complex legal issues to Members and officers, and of providing cogent legal advice accordingly.
On a personal level, you'll be a natural communicator with excellent negotiating and influencing skills. You'll be diplomatic, enterprising and detail focused, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. This is a fantastic opportunity to put people across Westminster first, and to supercharge your career in the process.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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