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An opportunity has arisen to join the Adult Social Care team in Legal Services as a Professional Officer on a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave until November 2025.           

This is a busy but friendly team who deal with legal aspects of the Local Authority's Adult Social Care responsibilities.          

The Adult Social Care team operates in a fast-paced environment, dealing with a wide range of adult social care law cases, including matters relating to the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Court of Protection.        

The Professional Officers support the lawyers by helping prepare applications to Court and running cases once underway, and assisting in the provision of advice and guidance in this fast paced and interesting area of the law.       

The role includes the following benefits:        

• Salary from £32,115 to £36,124 per annum (national pay award negotiations ongoing)          
• Full-time – 37 hours a week.         
• Hybrid / Flexible working.          
• Annual leave – 26 days per year plus bank holidays.             
• Employee Assistance scheme, store discounts, flexi hours scheme, cycle to work scheme and much more!         

The successful candidate for all the roles will have:           

• A minimum of four GCSEs including English and Maths.         
• Relevant NVQ or technical qualification or can demonstrate relevant equivalent experience by referring to the Task List for the post.            
• Analytical abilities and high levels of literacy and numeracy.        
• Legal systems and process knowledge, plus other relevant IT skills including word, excel, PowerPoint or equivalents and other systems.        

For an informal discussion, please contact Patrick Chisholm on 01142734063     

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.