Senior SEND Lawyer

West Northamptonshire Council; Northampton; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority council in Northampton seeks a qualified legal professional to provide excellent legal service, focusing on SEND law and delivering advice on related issues. You will support the team and guide colleagues while ensuring solid legal representation. The council emphasizes career development, flexibility, and a positive work culture, making it an ideal place for growth. If you are passionate and eager to make a difference in legal services, this could be your next career opportunity.

Qualifications

• Lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX qualified) with experience or knowledge in this area of law.

Responsibilities

• Advising upon and conducting SEND Tribunal proceedings.
• Advising on law, policy, strategy and procedure relating to SEND issues.
• Advising upon Judicial Reviews.
• Being a lead within the team and providing guidance and support to other members of the team.

Job description

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.

What will you be doing?

Whilst local government experience is not essential, a passion for delivering an excellent legal service in a fast-paced environment and a desire to help shape and deliver an exemplar local authority legal service is.

• Advising upon and conducting SEND Tribunal proceedings.
• Advising on law, policy, strategy and procedure relating to SEND issues.
• Advising upon Judicial Reviews.
• Being a lead within the team and providing guidance and support to other members of the team.

Qualifications

• Lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX qualified) with experience or knowledge in this area of law.

About you

West Northants is a great place to work. With a focus on career development, wellbeing, flexibility and support, this is an opportunity for you to take the next step on your career journey in a supported environment. We have mentoring, buddying, coaching, training and many other opportunities available to assist and develop you, to ensure your success in the role and your ongoing progression and success within the Council. We will also consider any version of flexible working you can come up with.

For more information please visit our designated legal recruitment pages here or contact Julia Rickards, Head of Legal (People), on 07585 405339 for a confidential discussion.

About us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner. The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

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