About The Service
As the capital of Wales, Cardiff offers not only the experience of working in one of the fastest growing and most highly skilled cities in Britain but also offers easy access to the fabulous South Wales region’s coastline and countryside with worldwide standing.
Cardiff Council has a Lexcel accredited in house Legal Service with excellent opportunities for a hardworking, motivated and adaptable legal practitioner. Currently based at County Hall in the heart of Cardiff Bay with good transport links and parking facilities. We have specialist lawyers carrying out procurement, litigation, property, planning, governance, childcare and adult social services work, and aim to provide our clients with an excellent and comprehensive service.
The service now operates a hybrid working model which enables employees to work flexibly from home or from an office base, depending upon service requirements. We have a modern case management system, an online legal library, and a small business support team. We also have 4 trainee solicitor posts which we use to help grow our own workforce.
About the job
An opportunity exists to join our Property and Planning team. We are looking for an experienced Senior Legal Assistant which will primarily be working within the area of property and planning law and be expected to manage a caseload of various matters relating to the work in the Property and Planning team, including but not limited to sales, purchases leases and other property and planning work undertaken by the team. As the role is more senior it is expected that the role will require an ability to work with limited supervision involve some oversight of work carried out by more junior members of the team.
What We Are Looking For From You
We seek high calibre candidate with relevant experience who is able to deal with a varied and demanding workload and who is committed to delivering a successful in-house legal service. The successful candidate must be able to prioritise work and meet deadlines, often under pressure, whilst maintaining good relationships with others. The successful candidate will need to have significant experience and knowledge of Property and Planning Law.
Additional information
We have a modern case management system, an online legal library and a small business support team. While the role is demanding our flexible working policies ensure a healthy work life balance. The Council’s Flexi Time policy applies to the post and flexible working patterns are available, subject to meeting the needs of our clients and having mutual regard to the working arrangements of existing team members. The successful applicant would need to be able to travel at short notice in line with the demands of this post.
This vacancy is suitable for post share subject to there being another suitably qualified and experienced employee/candidate who wishes to post share.
For an informal conversation, please contact the Principal Solicitor/Operational Manager OM2 (Property) Richard Crane on richard.crane@cardiff.gov.uk.
Those applicants successful at application form stage will be invited for an interview/test and this interview will be face to face. If you have any concerns regarding this, please contact Richard Crane for a discussion.
We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
Due to the current interim working arrangements, we are unable to provide recruitment packs or accept application forms via the post.
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• Application Guidance
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