At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the Regulatory Team, providing high-quality legal advice and managing complex casework.
- Company: Join North Northamptonshire Council, a vibrant and innovative local authority.
- Benefits: Enjoy generous leave, pension contributions, wellbeing support, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive team that values professional excellence and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in local governance while developing your legal expertise.
- Qualifications: Qualified Solicitor or Barrister with experience in local government law.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council.
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days.
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
- A range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role:
Join our Regulatory Team as a Senior Lawyer. We are seeking an experienced Senior Lawyer to join our Regulatory Team for the Council’s Legal Services function, helping to oversee both in-house provision and external legal support. Reporting to the Principal Lawyer, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the service and providing professional leadership across the Regulatory Team. The Senior Lawyer is responsible for delivering high-quality legal advice and leading complex casework. The role helps to ensure that legal risk is effectively managed while enabling informed decision-making across the organisation.
What will you be doing?
- Assist in leading and shaping the Regulatory Team, setting direction, driving high performance, and ensuring the delivery of timely, solution-focused legal advice to client services.
- Support the Principal Lawyer, ensuring strong governance, ethical standards, and that all Council decision-making is lawful and compliant.
- Provide line management of legal officers and legal assistants.
- To support the Principal Lawyer with line management responsibilities of up to four lawyers within the team.
- Provide expert advice to client services on complex, high-risk matters.
- Manage legal risk, involved in complex casework, litigation and ensuring robust risk identification, mitigation, and communication.
- Play a key role in leadership, development, and management of a high-performing team, promoting professional excellence, continuous improvement and a positive, values-driven culture.
- Budgets, ensuring efficiency and sustainability.
- Drive service improvement, enhancing systems, processes, and digital capability to deliver modern, effective legal services.
- Advocacy and representation, represent the Council in courts, tribunals, inquiries, mediation and negotiations.
- Prepare pleadings, statements of case, evidence bundles and associated documentation.
- Provide legal representation at Committees, Sub-Committees and any other Council Board as required.
About you:
- Qualified Solicitor, Barrister or FCILEx.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Experience in local government or wider public sector including strong knowledge of local government law, governance, the Constitution and decision‑making processes.
- Experience in a relevant specialist area to include Planning, Highways, Employment, General Litigation and Licensing.
- Experience handling complex, sensitive or high‑risk casework.
- Experience advising on governance, statutory obligations and public sector decision making.
- Up‑to‑date knowledge of legislation, case law and regulatory frameworks relevant to the council services aligned to the legal team.
- Experience representing clients in courts/tribunals/hearings/committees.
About us:
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are: Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive, Trustworthy.
Disability Confident Employer: We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Senior Lawyer - Regulatory Team in Corby employer: North Northamptonshire Council
At North Northamptonshire Council, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a vibrant working environment that fosters creativity and innovation. With generous leave entitlements, a robust pension scheme, and a commitment to employee development, we ensure our team members thrive both personally and professionally. Our flexible working arrangements and supportive culture, including active Employee Network Groups, make us a standout choice for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment in the public sector.
Contact Details:
North Northamptonshire Council Recruitment Team
