Lawyer

**Lawyer**:
**Employer**: Medway Council

**Salary**: Range 7 - Up to £55,607 per annum

**Location**: To be confirmed

**Contract**: Permanent

**Working Pattern**: Flexible Hours

**Hours**: 37.

**DBS Check**: No

**Closing Date**: 01/06/2025 at 23:55

**Reference**: REC/709/343/VR

**Hybrid - Works part from Gun Wharf and part from home**

Medway and Gravesham Legal Services is looking to recruit lawyers to complement our busy and friendly team. We are looking for Childcare lawyers, SEN lawyers and adults’ lawyers.

The council understands that a motivated workforce is the most important factor for it to be successful and achieve its aims. It’s vital that employees feel rewarded for their contribution.

The council recognised that it needed to improve its reward offer to attract and retain talented and motivated lawyers to join its highly respected internal legal team. As such the council has significantly invested in increasing the reward offer for each role, increasing the size of the team and implementing a career progression framework which supports professional development and succession planning through internal growth. This has already borne fruit with one successful recruitment campaign, and we are now looking to fill the remaining vacancies.

As a Medway Council employee, you will have the opportunity to develop both professionally and personally by undertaking relevant training opportunities, enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including competitive rates of pay, pension scheme, flexi time and generous annual leave. Along with access to an employee advice, information and counselling service, employee forums and an employee discount scheme for national and local retailers.

The team operate a flexible hybrid work style with remote working being combined with office attendance to allow colleagues to collaborate and contribute to the positive team atmosphere. The team is mostly based at Gun Wharf, Chatham (where free parking is available)

We are looking for proactive individuals who excel in client management, drafting, negotiation, mentoring colleagues, advocacy in a variety of courts and tribunals, and providing advice at committees.

We pride ourselves on the training and support provided to staff and in joining us you will contribute towards and encourage a culture of learning, knowledge sharing and excellence within Legal Services.

Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.

The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels:
Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.

Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.

**Important Information-**

**Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile.**

**For further information, and for details of the benefits of working for Medway Council, please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.**
- We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date._
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