Senior Lawyer (Property, Planning, Highways and Local Land Charges)

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Are you an effective communicator and problem-solver, enthusiastic, proactive and enjoy managing a team? If so, we have a fantastic permanent opportunity as a Senior Lawyer and in addition we can offer some fantastic benefits.

Benefits

• Hybrid/Flexible working
• Pension scheme - 19% total contribution (you pay approximately 6.5%) and by joining the scheme this includes Death in service cover of 3 x your salary
• Annual leave - 26 days plus bank holidays increasing to 31 days after 5 years' service plus bank holidays AND you can buy additional leave should you need to!
• Employee Assistance scheme, store discounts, flexi hours scheme, cycle to work scheme and much more!

This exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Legal Services at Sheffield City Council at what will be exciting times for Sheffield as it continues its existing regeneration and embarks on new programmes. The teams you will be managing are based in the Town Hall. The teams provide transactional services and legal advice in relation to a wide range of complex property areas, including all aspects of commercial and residential conveyancing, commercial landlord and tenant, academies, regeneration and charitable trusts.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied case load including high-profile and complex matters
• Manage a team of friendly and hardworking lawyers and professional officers dealing with a diverse range of legal practice areas. These areas include Property, Planning, Highways and Local Land Charges
• Work closely with senior officers and at times councillors, external lawyers and developers as well as an established commercial property and regeneration team of officers
• Work with Senior Lawyers, the Service Managers, the Legal Leadership Team and other stakeholders to provide high quality legal services
• Demand reduction and service efficiency - to work together to find ways for the Council to operate more efficiently within each service area, to create and sustain ways to reduce the need for legal advice and legal interventions
• Business Partnering with client departments to establish effective working relationships and identify better ways of working

Requirements

• Recognised Legal Qualification (Solicitor/Barrister or CILEx Conveyancing Practitioner)
• Good experience of complex commercial and residential property and regeneration work
• Excellent communication and comprehensive commercial property drafting skills
• Managerial experience

Sheffield is a brilliant city. It is resourceful, inventive, welcoming - a place rooted in its history and ambitious for the future. It\'s a place full of potential and we are working hard to create a council that works with residents, communities and businesses to unleash that potential.

For an informal discussion, please contact Nadine Wynter on 0114 273 6564.

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.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.