PT Senior Lawyer - Governance

Job Description

InterimPT Senior Lawyer - Governance Reference no:MCC 0007 F0C6 / 1 Pay Rate:up to £60 per hour PAYE depending on experience21 Monday – Friday, normal working hoursThis opening assignment is for 5monthsCity:MANCHESTER Hybrid workingWorking within a support service or Centre of Excellence, the role holder will ensure the provision of high-quality legal support to enable the delivery of service and organisational objectives, delivering, managing or commissioningspecific projects as required. As a subject matter specialist, the role holder will oversee the collaborative design, development and implementation of strategies and frameworks which enable the operation of effective services and support their contributionto the achievement of strategic and operational objectives. The role holder will manage key relationships, acting as a commissioner for the delivery of support and services, and work in partnership across the Manchester, Salford and Rochdale and other publicsector bodies to deliver effective and efficient support to policy and decision making. The role holder will be directly accountable for the delivery of packages of work which are likely to be high profile, complex and sensitiveKey Responsibilities:

• Through close working relationships with stakeholders, support the development of effective business processes, policies and strategies by taking a lead for their area of work.
• Work collaboratively across Manchester, Salford, Rochdale Borough Council and other public sector bodies to provide specialist legal advice, information, support and challenge to client services which supports and promotes their priorities as well as safeguardingthe organisations and progressing corporate objectives.
• Provide specialist legal advice and guidance to colleagues across the organisations, accounting for factors and elements beyond their direct control and area of specialism to support a whole council approach to decision making. People. Pride. Place.
• Drive the effective delivery of work packages to ensure service objectives are achieved, to support the effective decision making processes of Manchester, Salford and where appropriate Rochdale Borough Council and other public sector bodies and to enablethem to meet their legal obligations and strategic objectives.
• Ensure that the organisational direction of travel and agreed policies / procedures are embedded within work delivered across the assigned service area, including consideration of Public Service Reform principles.
• Use robust and effective analysis of information to inform strategic objectives in relation to the assigned service area, ensuring that advice to client services is in line with current legislation and organisational direction.
• Play a key role in the review and development of organisational strategies, ensuring that key performance indicators are met. Provide effective operational and strategic support to the authority’s corporate approach to external regulatory / inspection andinternal governance processes.
• Effectively commission work packages both within their service area and from other service areas / organisations in order to provide a holistic approach to advice and ensure that all factors are accounted for in the decision making processes of the organisation.
• A strong and clear advocate for the organisation’s m people approach.
• The role holder will be expected to effectively co-ordinate resources to support the principals of ‘joined up’ communication and to ensure efficiencies are achieved

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible,rather than as a PDFIf you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we onlywork on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. #J-18808-Ljbffr