Senior Legal Officer
Coventry
£ 26.35/hour
Senior Legal Officer
Salary: £26.35 Per Hour Umbrella.
Full Time (35 hours per week)
Based in Coventry – Hybrid Working
This request is for 2 additional temporary Senior Legal Officer (SLO) posts, at Grade 6, to create additional resilience and support the delivery of legal support for our Adult Social Care and Education departments.
The request is based on a significant increase in work across the whole of the team but particularly within these 2 areas of work, where, both the amount of work being processed, and its complexity have changed enormously since the team’s inception.
The proposal is that the 2 posts mentioned above are created as a matter of urgency to:
Address the increased demand within the team and ensure that it can continue to deliver the work required of it, and
Provide the necessary breathing space to undertake a wider review between legal and the service area to develop a longer, more sustainable permanent plan to address the capacity concerns.
Responsibilities:
All aspects of Adult and Children’s social care, including safeguarding, assessment and care planning, charging, commissioning, policy creation and review, implementation of legislation, Judicial Review, complaints etc.
The provision of legal support to children’s social care in respect of the pre-proceedings element of the Public Law Outline (PLO),
The provision of legal support to children’s...