Litigation Lawyer

The Opportunity

Salary: £38,626 to £41,511 per annum

Working pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home.

We're on the look out for a skilled and dedicated lawyer to join our friendly legal team within the Litigation & Insurance team.

As a Litigation lawyer, you will have conduct of a varied caseload providing advice to client groups across the council on all aspects of dispute resolution in the areas of third party and employers' liability claims, debt recovery to include adult social care debt recovery, contractual disputes and landlord and tenant.

What we are looking for:

• A qualified lawyer with up to two years post-qualification (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and to work effectively as part of a team.
• Experience drafting, interpreting and analysing documents, conducting legal research and undertaking advocacy.
• Computer literate.
• Experience of dispute resolution procedures, the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, and the Practice Directions.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see ourStaff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CRS00931.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Richard Pearce (Principal Lawyer) at r or Nigel Robinson (Senior Solicitor) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

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