Senior Lawyer Adult Social Care in Stafford

This is an exciting opportunity to join a positive, supportive, and ambitious legal team. Working alongside experienced senior lawyers, you will play a key role in shaping, supporting, and developing a talented team while helping to deliver excellent legal services to our clients. As a Team Senior Lawyer, you will play a key role in delivering excellent client service, supporting and mentoring colleagues, and ensuring work is managed effectively. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will handle complex and high-profile legal matters, providing strategic advice and drafting and negotiating significant legal documents to achieve the best outcomes for our clients.

Main Responsibilities

• 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.

The Ideal Candidate

• Be a Solicitor, Fellow of CILEX with litigation rights or a Barrister with practising certificate authorised to undertake litigation.
• Have substantial experience in Adult Social Care legal advice covering all areas including judicial review, DPA, Court proceedings and policy advice.
• Demonstrate extensive Adult Social Care legal experience and experience of completing all aspects of complex legal casework and experience of representing social work clients in meetings and at Court.
• Evidence experience of representing social work clients at high level case related meetings and conducting complex advocacy on evidence.
• Show an ability to clearly communicate in all media forms; verbally, digitally and in writing and to draft complex legal documents.

This is a full-time role, working Monday - Friday due to business needs. This post has no political restriction. Interviews will be held during week commencing 21st September 2026, in Stafford.

Our Recruitment Process

We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

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. Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy: 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.

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 backgrounds 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.