Senior Solicitor - Waverley Court

Job Description

Corporate Services

Senior Solicitor
Waverley Court, Edinburgh

Salary: £60,506 - £72,266
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council’s in-house legal team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Solicitor to join its Litigation team. The applicant should have experience of education disputes including presenting cases at the First Tier Tribunal and Placing in School appeals. Experience of other contentious litigation including handling cases in the Sheriff court and/or Judicial Reviews in the Court of Session would be beneficial The team consists of the Principal Solicitor, three Senior Solicitors, one Solicitor. You will be fully supported in a collegiate environment and encouraged to develop a full range of legal and other skills.

The Litigation team provides advice to a wide range of Council services including Licensing, Housing, the Homeless Team, Social Work, Education and Bereavement Services. Your role will focus primarily on Additional Support Needs Tribunals and other education matters. The workload will be varied, challenging and interesting. You will also have the opportunity to assist in other areas of litigation work. Litigation and advocacy skills will be essential to this role. The applicant should have a positive attitude, a willingness to learn and the ability to work as part of a team to find solutions to complex problems.

The position is advertised as a full-time position, 36 hours per week, or such other hours as are agreed with the successful candidate; the Council is open to discussing flexible work arrangements.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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