Team Leader (Property and Regeneration)

Swale Borough Council; England; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority seeks a Team Leader (Property and Regeneration) to lead the legal services team, delivering high-quality advice and managing staff. The role offers a hybrid working model, extensive wellbeing benefits, and competitive salary ranging from £57,703 to £64,906 per annum, alongside a £7,000 market supplement. To qualify, candidates should be solicitors or legal executives with significant experience in property law and leadership skills.

Benefits

Local Government pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Wellbeing support

Discounts on leisure and retail

Generous sick pay

Free parking

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor, barrister, or chartered legal executive.
• Extensive experience in property and regeneration law.
• Experience advising senior leaders in property matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Property and Regeneration team.
• Deliver high-quality legal services across local authorities.
• Oversee team development and manage recruitment.

Skills

Post-qualification legal practice experience in property and regeneration

Providing legal advice to senior leaders

Experience in politically sensitive environments

Staff management

Knowledge of local government processes

Education

Qualified solicitor, barrister, or chartered legal executive

Job description

Overview

Team Leader (Property and Regeneration) – Mid Kent Legal Services
This is a full-time, hybrid role.

The Benefits

• Salary of £57,703 - £64,906 per annum + £7,000 market supplement
• Local Government pension scheme
• Generous annual leave plus time off between Christmas and New Year (and an option to purchase extra leave)
• Wellbeing support including confidential advice, counselling and flu vaccines
• Discounts on leisure, retail and fuel and salary sacrifice schemes, including Cycle to Work and car leasing
• Generous sick pay
• Free parking
• Season ticket loans for rail/bus travel

This is a great opportunity for an experienced legal professional with expertise in property and regeneration and a great leadership style to join our forward-thinking shared service and to make a difference to the lives of people who live and work in the mid-Kent area.

With extensive wellbeing benefits and a brilliant pension scheme, you’ll enjoy a rewarding career where your expertise is recognised, and you’ll have the chance to take the next step in your career.

What’s more, we offer outstanding working arrangements, with the majority of your time spent working from home and a 34-hour working week, including 1pm finishes on Fridays. On top of this, we offer a number of working options such as compressed hours, nine-day fortnights and part-time working potential, all within an inclusive and supportive working environment where your wellbeing is prioritised.

The Role

As our Team Leader (Property and Regeneration), you will lead and manage our Property and Regeneration team, delivering high-quality legal services across all three local authorities.

This pivotal role combines strategic leadership with providing expert legal advice on property and regeneration, ensuring compliance with Lexcel standards and advancing the shared legal service’s vision.

Overseeing your team’s development, you will manage recruitment, training and performance whilst serving as the senior fee earner, carrying a caseload of complex property and regeneration matters, providing high-level legal advice to elected members, committees and senior managers.

You will also support the delivery of the partnership’s strategic objectives, maintaining up-to-date legal expertise and promoting the service internally and externally to improve understanding of legal procedures and build the MKLS reputation.

Additionally, you will:

• Lead training sessions, provide guidance notes and offer legal supervision
• Represent MKLS at external meetings
• Ensure compliance with council policies

This is an exciting time to join the MKLS Property & Regeneration Team with a number of large and high-profile projects happening across the Partner Authorities.

About You

To be considered as our Team Leader (Property and Regeneration), you will need:

• To be a qualified solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive
• Extensive post-qualification legal practice experience in property and regeneration
• Experience providing legal advice and support to senior leaders and key decision-makers in property and regeneration law and practice
• Experience operating in politically sensitive environments
• Experience of staff management
• Knowledge and understanding of the political nature of local government and the democratic process
• A full, valid UK driving licence

Other organisations may call this role Solicitor, Barrister, Chartered Legal Executive, Legal Services Team Leader, Senior Property and Regeneration Lawyer, Property and Legal Team Leader, Property and Regeneration Manager, Senior Legal Advisor, or Legal Operations Team Leader.

Webrecruit, Mid Kent Legal Services and Maidstone, Swale and Tunbridge Wells local authorities are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Timothy Pyant, Interim Business Manager on 01622 602155.

Closing Date: 19th October 2025
Interview Date: W/C 3rd November 2025

So, if you’re looking for a great new opportunity as a Team Leader (Property and Regeneration), please apply via the button shown.