Job Description

The Opportunity

Salary:

46,731 to 49,764per annum

Working Pattern:

Full time, 37 hours per week

Location:

County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working

Interview date:

w/c 2nd June 2025



As our Lawyer, you will join a dynamic team and have access to an established career progression scheme offering scope for future development.



Your primary focus will be to provide clear and balanced advice on commercial contracts, construction contracts and procurement matters within the Commercial Team in Legal Services. You will run a mixed case load, drafting and providing advice on public health contracts, construction and building contracts, IT contracts, frameworks, DPS' (Dynamic Purchasing System), Concession Contracts, Collaboration Agreements, Funding Agreements, and advising on call-off agreements from established Frameworks such as ESPO and CCS.



You will work within the Commercial Team in Legal Services to provide a quality legal service to client groups across the County Council. Key areas include commercial contracts and procurement and other work areas as required by the Senior Solicitor Commercial Team Leader.



Legal Services aims to give the best possible legal and insurance service to the Council. As an organisation we have a simple goal - to deliver the best possible services to the people of West Sussex. We do this through the people who work for us so it's paramount to us to ensure that our employees are supported and valued.

What are we looking for?

You will be a qualified, lawyer, solicitor, or legal executive, or have equivalent experience with some practical knowledge and experience of commercial contracts, construction contracts and procurement, but absolutely with an ability to analyse legal issues and having a good eye for detail. You will be confident dealing with in-house and external clients using a professional but friendly fashion. You will be a good team worker when required, but with the ability to work on your own initiative too. You will be part of a team providing commercial property, residential property, and land law advice to a wide range of client departments across the Council and external clients and you will have good IT skills to be able to use the case management system. You will be able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the team and be able to travel independently around the county to various offices and establishments.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:


an excellent

local government pension scheme

generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave) a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role maternity, paternity, dependency, and adoption leave volunteering opportunities training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over 1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our

Staff discounts page

if you are a business looking to offer a discount) health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our

Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is .



For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Jonathan Brown (Principal Solicitor) at

jonathan.brown@westsussex.gov.uk

For issues or queries regarding your application please contact

hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk

.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years' worth of references and health check.

Equity, inclusion, and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.



We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our

application help

page.





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Job Reference: CRS00938