Advocacy Clerking Manager

Crown Prosecution Service; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent legal service provider in the UK seeks an advocacy clerking manager in Stoke-on-Trent. This role involves leading a team, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring effective clerking processes. Candidates should demonstrate strong teamwork, leadership skills, and an ability to engage with various stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Civil Service contributory pension

25 days' leave increasing to 30

Personal development budget

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in team leadership and management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Understanding of legal frameworks and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of advocacy clerking assistants.
• Ensure timely briefing for crown advocates.
• Foster relationships with stakeholders through regular engagement.
• Support the development needs of staff.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Performance management

Communication skills

Job description

Advocacy clerking plays a crucial role in the effective management of cases dealt with by the Crown Prosecution Service, primarily in the Crown Court.

As an advocacy clerking manager, you lead and support a small team of clerking assistants within the Crown Advocacy Unit (CAU), ensuring the team is in line with the Crown Prosecution Service Advocacy Strategy. Your role involves overseeing the team day-to-day, their performance, and wellbeing.

Reporting to the B2/HEO manager, you are responsible for fostering a positive team environment and ensuring effective clerking. A key part of your role is to build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including chambers' clerks and Crown Court listings teams, ensuring regular engagement and communication.

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you're applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role.

You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline.

Roles and Responsibilities

• You are responsible for timely briefing of in-house KC, senior crown advocates and crown advocates in line with Briefing Principles.
• You lead and manage advocacy clerking assistants in pursuit of team and shared objectives.
• You support the development of staff by way of clear accountabilities and decision-making abilities, training opportunities, and monitoring team performance in line with agreed civil service values and behaviours.
• You foster build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders by way of regular engagement, communication and liaison, including attending regular stakeholder meetings.
• You support the development needs and training, of crown advocates, by providing buddying and shadowing opportunities, and assist the legal crown advocacy manager in ensuring standards are met.

Person Specification

GCSE and A-Level results won't hold you back. We know that some people find their skills and passions when they leave school, so we won't take these into account.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Working Together, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing, Delivering at Pace.

What We Offer

Alongside your salary of £29,620, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £8,580 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

We offer a range of benefits, including: Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%, 25 days' leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years, £350 each year to spend on personal development, lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors, an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday, competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave, flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work, Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.