Regulatory Solicitor

Licensing/Regulatory Solicitor/Barrister

Contract type - full time, permanent

Full-Time 37 hours per week

Salary range - £52,413 - £56,730

A career with our team offers opportunities to develop beyond qualification. Every member of the team has a learning and development plan personal to them and running alongside that an annual appraisal which combined with being mentored and developed within the wider leadership team, means that by joining us will see you set your career on the right path for success.

Legal Services are at the heart of the Council’s functions and are vital to its work. This role gives you the opportunity to play an integral part in the City of Wolverhampton Council achieving its goals and aspirations.

Our team continues to go from strength to strength and with that, to grow and expand providing more opportunities, such as this, for the best people to join us.

We are looking to recruit a motivated Licensing Solicitor or Barrister. Candidates from both Local Government and Private Practice are welcomed.

This role will offer you the opportunity to:

• Manage your own varied caseload including but not limited to licensing;
• Support colleagues when required;
• Work with minimal supervision;
• Undertake technical and complex research which requires developed interpretation and analytical skills as well as partnership working with both colleagues and clients;
• Active involvement in client care and business development

• Handling a licensing caseload from start to finish including private hire, taxi licences and premises,including advising and advocacy both in internal mini-committees, full committees, and Courts
• Private hire taxi appeal hearings
• Drafting summons, indictments, case summaries and disclosure requests
• Attending Magistrates’ Court, committees and meetings including dealing with the Court lists.
• Conducting litigation for client departments covering civil, regulatory crime and public law.
• Working with and advising elected Members on the full range of practice areas and on standards issues.
• A passion to further a career in Licensing ;
• Recent in-depth knowledge and post qualification licensing;
• Advocacy experience and skills in all tiers of court and a willingness to undertake advocacy, particularly welcoming applications from those with an interest in developing their advocacy practice;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as demonstrable skills and strengths in negotiation, drafting, persuading, and influencing;
• An ability to command the respect, trust and confidence of your clients and senior managers as well as the court;
• Flexibility to assist other team members as required;
• The ability to work confidently and effectively either alone or as part of a team;
• A desire to develop legal skills to enable you to achieve technical excellence;
• The willingness to take on challenges;
• To be solutions and outcome focused; seeking to provide practical options by removing or working around what may be regarded as barriers;
• The ability to form strong working relationships with client departments to enable you to provide the best service you can for clients and the residents of Wolverhampton;
• To be organised with an eye for detail;
• A practical and commercial approach; and
• To be willing to consistently go above and beyond to provide good client care, sound legal advice and a fantastic quality of work.

• Competitive salary with pay progression through multiple increments;
• Flexible working including hybrid working; requiring only 2 days office attendance per week combined with flexi-time will enable you to put your health and wellbeing first and make work fit around your life, not your life fit around work;
• Generous annual leave, starting at 26 days and rising to 35 days (plus bank holidays) in line with length of service;
• The opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme;
• Free parking at a number of sites across the City; and
• Wellbeing and lifestyle savings though our benefits App.

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