Senior Adult Social Care Lawyer & Team Manager
Staffordshire County Council
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Salary
£57,444 to £62,029
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Closing date
22 November 2026
20 days leftJob description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a positive, supportive, and ambitious legal team.
As a Senior Lawyer for Adult Social Care you will lead and develop a talented team while managing a varied portfolio of complex and high-profile legal matters. Working closely with senior leaders, social care professionals and elected members, you will provide strategic legal advice that helps deliver positive outcomes for vulnerable adults and the communities we serve.
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 and achieve the best outcomes for the people we work to support.
This role offers the perfect balance of leadership and hands-on legal practice, enabling you to shape service delivery, mentor colleagues and contribute to the ongoing success and development of the legal service.
This is a hybrid role, with attendance at the office ( based in Stafford) expected twice a week. There is also additional attendance at monthly team seniors meeting, away days and an expectation for additional office attendance as required and in line with business need. Attendance at any court is also expected when and where required.
You will
- Leading, supervising and developing a team of lawyers and legal professionals.
- Managing and allocating work to ensure an effective and high-performing service.
- Providing expert legal advice on a broad range of Adult Social Care matters.
- 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.
- Drafting and negotiating complex legal documentation.
- Representing clients at court hearings, tribunals and high-level stakeholder meetings.
- Delivering strategic advice to senior officers, directors and elected members.
- Supporting service improvement initiatives and ensuring compliance with Lexcel standards.
- Building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders across the organisation.
- Managing work streams, allocating the work across the team and ensuring supervision of junior staff.
The minimum criteria that will be used to shortlist for this role will be:
- 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.
Interviews will be held during week commencing 16th December 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.
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.
Please note: this role is being advertised under the title Senior Adult Social Care Lawyer & Team Manager to improve search visibility and attract relevant candidates. The substantive job title for this position is Team Senior Lawyer, as reflected in the job description.
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.
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
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.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
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LG Jobs
First seen
3 November 2026
Last checked
3 November 2026
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