Birmingham City Council - Legal Services

There is no bigger, or more exciting place to work right now than Birmingham. Following the success of the Commonwealth Games, we are on a bold transformation journey with grand ambitions for the city, our citizens and the Council.

We are looking for innovative and passionate individuals to join our legal team, who are highly motivated and want the best possible outcomes for Birmingham’s 1.2 million citizens.

Birmingham is a diverse city with a rich heritage, and we are a diverse and inclusive employer and would welcome you to join our legal department which is reflective of the Birmingham community.

As the largest Local Authority in Europe, we offer successful candidates a diverse range of quality work and an opportunity to build on existing experience, reasonable internal targets, a good work life balance with flexitime, and other usual local authority benefits including an attractive local government salary related pension. If you looking for a career within the public sector, and are tired of “overly ambitious” billing targets, too much marketing, and a poor work life balance then this could be the place for you.

Working for the legal team in Birmingham City Council, will give you the opportunity to work on a wide range of exciting projects – some of which will be of national and international significance. The quality and complexity of the work is equal to that found in larger firms in the private sector, who are often “on the other side”.

The breadth of legal work in the department is second to none. We deal with contentious areas of law including criminal prosecutions, Anti-Social Behaviour Orders as well as Employment Tribunal claims. In addition, we have non-contentious work within our commercial, data protection, commercial property and planning team, so we really will have a role to suit your skills and expertise.

A breakdown of the legal teams is as follows:-

• Adults
• Commercial
• Civil Litigation
• Data Protection
• Employment
• Housing Management
• Homelessness
• Housing Disrepair
• Personal Injury
• Planning
• Property and Re-generation
• Criminal Litigation

The work that is allocated in the team is allocated based on workloads and therefore the most junior to the most senior members of the team will have exposure to complex cases.

For the time being it is anticipated that there will be substantial home working involved, although office space is available if desired. There will be the occasional requirement to attend the office where there is a business need.

We are happy to take candidates with demonstrable transferable skills who have the drive to make a difference to the citizens of Birmingham.

Therefore, if you are looking for a change and want to make a positive difference where the impact of your role has clear purpose on changing people’s lives on a daily basis then think of Birmingham as your employer of choice.

What our people say

Janie Berry - City Solicitor and Monitoring Officer

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