Senior Lawyer Adult Social Care

Job Introduction

The Team Senior Lawyer (TSL) plays a vital role in ensuring that the team that they have responsibility for delivers the optimum client service. They will do this by supporting team members and by working to develop an insightful knowledge about the client, which will place them in best position possible to allocate and manage work effectively. In addition, the TSL has responsibility for completing aspects of highly complex legal casework, to include the drafting and negotiating of complex legal documents, in order to achieve the optimum outcome for the client.

Further details can be found in the JD.

Main Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Managing work streams, allocating the work across the team and ensuring supervision of junior staff.
• Undertaking highly complex legal casework including drafting complex legal documents and representing the client at all high-level case related meetings and undertaking complex advocacy as required.
• Ensuring compliance with the Lexcel standard.
• Managing and supervising the team.

Full details are contained in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for you to have the following essential criteria,

• A Solicitor, Fellow of CILEX with litigation rights or a Barrister with practising certificate authorised to undertake litigation.
• Substantial experience in relevant legal environment .
• Extensive experience in the relevant legal area and demonstrable experience of completing all aspects of complex legal casework and experience of representing clients in meetings and at Court.
• Experience of representing clients at high level case related meetings and conducting complex advocacy on evidence.
• An ability to clearly communicate in all media forms; verbally, digitally and in writing and to draft complex legal documents.

This post has no political restriction.

Interviews will be on the 1st July 2026 in Stafford.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council

Our Values

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.