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About the Role
Join Camden's dynamic Legal Services team, where you’ll play a critical role in breaking down barriers while embracing a risk-aware approach. You'll engage with senior officers and Members to offer high-quality legal services, with a focus on social justice. Collaborate closely with various service directorates to ensure efficient delivery of Council priorities, all while managing a personal caseload that includes high-profile and complex cases. Become a trusted advisor, advocate, and problem solver as you contribute to Camden's vision of innovative, responsive legal solutions.
Responsibilities
- Engage with senior officers and Members to offer high-quality legal services.
- Focus on social justice.
- Collaborate closely with various service directorates to ensure efficient delivery of Council priorities.
- Manage a personal caseload including high-profile and complex cases.
- Act as a trusted advisor, advocate, and problem solver.
- Contribute to Camden's vision of innovative, responsive legal solutions.
Requirements
- Qualified to practice in England and Wales as a Solicitor, Barrister, or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.
- Robust understanding of local government law.
- Hands-on experience in preparing cases and drafting legal documents.
- Excellent demonstrable detailed knowledge of employment law and procedure in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, Supreme Court, County Court and Court of Appeal.
- Significant recent experience of effectively managing a busy caseload of employment litigation matters.
- Experience advising on employment law, preferably in relation to local authorities and schools.
- Professional confidence to lead on challenging cases and provide high-level advice.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Collaborative spirit.
Skills
- Legal services
- Risk-aware approach
- Social justice
- Legal case preparation
- Legal document drafting
- Employment law
- Employment Tribunal procedure
- Employment Appeal Tribunal procedure
- Supreme Court procedure
- County Court procedure
- Court of Appeal procedure
- Employment litigation
- Advising on employment law
- Communication skills
- Collaboration
Location
- 5 Pancras Square N1C 4AG
Work Type
- Secondment
- Fixed term for 12 months
- 36 hours
Experience Level
- Level 5
Education Level
- Qualified to practice in England and Wales as a Solicitor, Barrister, or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
Salary/Compensations
- £57,416 - £65,532
Benefits
- Flexible working
- 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)
- Family leave
- Loan schemes
- Access to staff networks
- Pensions scheme
About the Company
- Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone.
- Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do.
- We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.
Equal Opportunity
- We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce.
- A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
- We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
- Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
- Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone.
- This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.