These are exciting times for the London Borough of Southwark with many developments taking place along the River Thames, at the Council estates at Elephant and Castle, at the former Surrey Docks at Canada Water, and through to Peckham and Camberwell. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Property Lawyer to join our team on a part time basis, 3 days per week (21.6 hours) and assist the Senior Property Lawyers in delivering the highest quality legal services in the Southwark Property team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Advise on Local Government Law and the implications of Human Rights and Equalities legislation.
- Provide expert legal advice on property and regeneration law matters
- Manage your own caseload effectively and efficiently.
- Debate and resolve legal points impartially.
- Conduct title due diligence reports for the Council's affordable housing direct delivery program.
- Handle buybacks of leasehold properties in redeveloped housing estates.
- Manage lease renewals, assignments, and surrenders within the Council's property portfolio.
- Facilitate disposals of council land, including auction sales.
- Assist senior lawyers with significant compulsory purchase orders.
How will you make an impact as our Property Lawyer?
- Qualified solicitor or barrister with a current practising certificate or holds Fellow of the institute of Legal Executives (FILEX).
- Practical experience in property law, preferably within a local government context.
- Deep knowledge of property and regeneration law, local government law, and related human rights and equalities legislation.
- Proven ability to manage a diverse caseload independently.
- Excellent legal research, drafting, and negotiation skills.
- The capability to work in a fast-paced environment, maintaining high standards of attention to detail while meeting deadlines.
- Able to cultivate a solution orientated mind-set and approach to their work.
- This role offers flexible home working blended with travel into our London Bridge HQ.
Additional details
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
This post attracts an additional benefit to the value of £2,327 PA for staff to use for Gym membership, health insurance, season ticket purchase, bicycle purchase, additional voluntary contribution to pension, subscriptions and professional fees.
In addition there is a 5% Market Supplement Monthly Payment based on annual salary.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 22nd of July 2024
Interview Date: 12th of August 2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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