Team Senior Lawyer - Education and SEND

Join to apply for the Team Senior Lawyer – Education and SEND role at Staffordshire County Council.

Staffordshire County Council provided pay range: Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience – please discuss detailed pay with your recruiter.

Base pay range: Staffordshire County Council is a modern, progressive, and forward‑thinking authority that is ambitious and empowers its employees to be courageous and innovative.

Staffordshire Legal Services is a large in‑house corporate legal team, offering a significant breadth of experience and expertise. We support and retain our lawyers, trainees and support staff by offering a wide variety of work, an extensive benefits package and training and mentoring to aid progression. We aim for work that is challenging, appreciated, and makes a difference to the lives of the people of Staffordshire.

Our benefits package supports work‑life balance: generous holiday entitlement (increasing with service), an annual leave purchase scheme, flexible and term‑time only working, agile working, employee travel and entertainment discounts, a local government pension scheme, optional car lease scheme, staff parking discount scheme, and family‑friendly policies such as maternity, adoption, paternity, and parental leave.

Responsibilities include:

• Policy advice and representation in respect of SEND, including responding to judicial review letters and applications. Expertise in SEND work is a significant part of this role.
• Ensuring the efficient delivery of a Schools Advice Service and all that entails.
• Giving advice on a full range of often complex Local Authority statutory education functions.
• Managing client files in accordance with Lexcel requirements and supervising other team members.

Qualifications:

• A comprehensive understanding of Education law.
• An in‑depth understanding of public‑sector work; prior local government experience is not essential.
• Strong communication skills – able to speak confidently and effectively.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Effective time management, prioritisation skills, and the ability to work under competing pressures.
• Ability to delegate work to generate capacity.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working.”

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.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Legal

Industry

Government Administration

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