Police Solicitor

DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable pay schemes

Enhanced employer pension

Up to 11% employer contributions

Cycle to work scheme

Health Cashback scheme

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc is seeking a Solicitor (Operations) to provide legal advice and support across the organisation, helping to deliver strategic and operational objectives in a lawful, ethical and commercially sound manner.

Reporting to the Senior Solicitor (Operations), the post holder will handle governance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement in legal service delivery, supervise junior lawyers, and contribute to horizon scanning and responses to customer and

Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic, commercial legal advice on contentious and non-contentious matters.
• Support regulatory enforcement and prosecution activity (as prosecutor and defence).
• Conduct commercial, customer and property disputes/litigation and enforcement matters under supervision.
• Instruct external legal advisers.
• Prepare cases to support statutory rights and powers in relation to land and assets.
• Supervise and mentor junior legal professionals; support workload management.
• Horizon scanning for legal and regulatory change; assess impact on the organisation.
• Prepare responses to complaints requiring legal interpretation; perform legal research and interpretation.
• Non-contentious legal drafting; maintain precedents, guidance notes and know-how libraries.

Job description

Company: DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc Work Type Permanent Job Function Legal and Regulation Base South East Hub Reporting to the Senior Solicitor (Operations), the Solicitor (Operations) provides legal advice and support across D r Cymru Welsh Water, to assist the organisation to deliver its strategic and operational objectives in a lawful, ethical and commercially sound manner. The post holder will support governance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement in legal service delivery within their area of responsibility. 1 Providing pragmatic, commercial and user-friendly legal advice on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters. Support regulatory enforcement and prosecution activity (as prosecutor and defence). Conduct commercial, customer and property disputes/ litigation and enforcement matters under appropriate supervision. Instruction of external legal advisers. Preparing cases to support the organisation in the exercise of its statutory rights and
powers in relation to land and assets. Supervise and mentor junior legal professionals, supporting capability development and effective workload management. Support with horizon scanning for legal and regulatory change and assessing the impact on the organisation. Supporting with the preparations of responses to complaints from customers and third parties that require legal interpretation. Legal research and interpretation. Non-contentious legal drafting. Maintain and enhance precedents, guidance notes, FAQs, and know how libraries to improve legal processes and controls. Support the management of matter intake for the Legal team - from instruction to completion, tracking deadlines, dependencies, and stakeholder inputs. Working in a city or regionally based firm, or an in-house legal team. Experience of taking responsibility for own performance (including managing a busy workload). Demonstrable experience of delivering practical and solution-orientated advice and legal services. Strong
applied knowledge in at least one of either contentious property, general litigation, non-contentious property, prosecutions or environmental law. able to produce clear, concise advice with minimal supervision. Advanced legal research and analysis; Ability to frame legal risks in business terms and propose pragmatic, proportionate solutions. Strong organisation: manages competing deadlines, prioritises effectively, and maintains accurate records/matter hygiene. Water industry (or other regulated industry/utility) knowledge (desirable but not essential) . As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including: Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus) Enhanced employer pension contributions Up to 11% employer contributions Enhanced family friendly policies Progression opportunities,
including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping Cycle to work scheme Car-leasing scheme Health CashBack scheme An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family D r Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas. To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company s required security objectives. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. To ensure an improved representation in our workforce,
applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Registered office: Compliance, Law, Operations Manager, Wastewater, Legal, Operations, Research, Engineering