Employment Lawyer needed in Newham, £24.53ph PAYE - Reference: RQ1413352
• To support the provision of strategic, high level legal advice to the client, Members and Officers, and support the provision of legal solutions in relevant areas of legal work to enable the Client to progress with corporate goals.
• To provide legal expertise in Employment issues and related areas, in a shared back office support service, contributing to the delivery of a portfolio of high quality, solution focused legal work in more than one discipline and across multiple sites, to customers in different organisations.
• To supervise junior members of the team, including trainees and support staff
1. To have personal responsibility for a caseload of legal work, and act as subject expert, with appropriate support and supervisions from a Senior Lawyer or Principal Lawyer
2. To notify all high risk matters to the Senior Lawyer To pick up casework arising in their respective teams during peak times or where additional resources are required to meet demand, and if requested to do so by the Principal Lawyer provide support to other teams
3. To support strategic projects across multi-functional teams, assisting to ensure that an innovative and commercial solutions focus is adopted across projects.
4. To have responsibility for support staff.
5. To carry out advocacy when necessary on own caseload, and not to instruct external support except in accordance with agreed procedures
6. To attend meetings of the Clients as required to provide legal and governance advice.
7. To produce or comment upon reports for various meetings or decision making processes.
8. To work some evenings, weekends and occasional public holidays in order to meet the service requirements of customers and in order to ensure appropriate representation of the Clients with residents, elected members, and external bodies.
9. Ensure that the partner Clients are provided with the best legal advice, and that legal advice is appropriate to ensure propriety of decision making.
10. Other duties – the job description indicates the main areas of activity for this post. From time to time other tasks/duties maybe required which are commensurate with the general area of responsibility and grade of the post.
This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.
If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to  quoting the reference number.
Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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