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Dear Applicant
CREATING BETTER OUTCOMES TOGETHER
Thank you for your interest in joining our exciting legal partnership, SHAPE Law. There has never been a more interesting or challenging time to be a lawyer in local government. The best lawyers in local government are working at the heart of public service transformation, underpinning change and promoting new models of delivery. At the same time they are delivering quality legal advice to elected members and chief officers about an increasingly complex service portfolio, where the needs of residents and communities may never have been higher. As if that wasn’t enough, reduced funding means the need to generate income streams as well as support wider commercialisation agendas is never far away!
These opportunities will place you in an organisation that is facing up to these challenges head on. SHAPE Law is one arm of a broader partnership of public, private and voluntary organisations; through a programme of transformational projects we are pro-actively working together to shape new approaches that enhance our services and delight our customers. For candidates with an interest in extending their career beyond law & governance, SHAPE could be an exciting longer term career destination.
Of course it helps that in Mendip you will be working in one of the UK’s most attractive areas. The benefits of our proximity to Bristol and Bath marry nicely with our rural offer, one comprising individually distinctive towns and villages, as well as areas of outstanding natural beauty and sites of major historical significance.
I am looking for lawyers operating at the top of their game, who can bring customer excellence, drive and legal expertise as well as a keen interest in using their professional skills and experience to improve the lives of people and the places in which they live.
Please take some time to read more about SHAPE Law and I do hope you choose to apply for one of these outstanding opportunities.
Yours faithfully
Donna Nolan
Deputy Chief Executive
About SHAPE Mendip
SHAPE Mendip is an innovative partnership of public, private and voluntary organisations, created to working together to achieve better outcomes. We are:
- Making access to a wide range of services clearer and easier
- Making it easier for our communities to link and work together
- Making better use of limited resources and saving millions of pounds over the coming years
- Shape Mendip is based in a new shared services hub in Shepton Mallet. Over time, we plan to link with other local hubs in other locations that will help us to get closer to our customers.
- Through this partnership, we aspire to set new standards of best practice for the provision of public services in rural communities.
How does it work?
Shape Mendip is designed to be:
- Welcoming where people enjoy building relationships
- Generous where people enjoy helping others succeed
- Adaptable where people enjoy solving problems
“The Shape Mendip partnership is bringing a new era in public service delivery across the district and indeed across the County. The new public service hub is the first step in bringing exciting opportunities to share, to improve, to save and to deliver.” John Osman, Leader, Somerset County Council
“With budgets being squeezed in the face of central government funding cuts, it’s essential that we are always looking at ways to offer council taxpayers first-rate services while getting value for money.” Stuart Brown, Chief Executive, Mendip District Council
ABOUT THE REGION
Mendip is a local government district of Somerset in England. The Mendip district covers a largely rural area of 285 square miles ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels. It has a population of approximately 112,500. The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet but the largest town is Frome.
This is a highly desirable location which benefits from:
- World-famous Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
- Global fashion and design HQs, including Clarks Shoes, Mulberry, Duo and Clarks Village
- Award-winning cider producers including Gaymers, Brothers Drinks and craft producers
- Innovation in major and artisan food brands including M&S desserts and Barbers Cheese
- Expertise in primary food production and agribusiness
- Opportunities in engineering, operations and services to new nuclear build at Hinkley Point C
- Easy access to the University cities of Bath and Bristol
- Strategic connections to London and the South East
Mendip Hills
This is one of England’s most special places and has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty– the limestone Mendip Hills with the lakes of the Chew Valley is a stunning landscape of steep slopes and undulating plateau punctuated by spectacular gorges and rocky outcrops. On the hilltops there are hundreds of ancient monuments, whilst on steeper slopes flower rich grasslands and wooded combes offer varied habitats for a wide variety of wildlife.
Somerset Levels
The Internationally important Somerset Levels and Moors stretch from the clay-based coastal plains across peat-based Avalon Marshes to the feet of the Mendip and Blackdown Hills. The Polden Ridge cuts across them as do a handful of rivers and numerous smaller waterways. Sudden and unexpected viewpoints rise mysteriously having once formed islands in a flooded plain. The result is a unique patchwork landscape steeped in history and brimming with rare wildlife.
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How to Apply
Please click on the links in the Latest Jobs section to read the advert and view a role profile.
To apply, please upload a CV and Covering Letter. Your letter should be no more than two pages long and should cover why you are interested in the post and how you meet the requirements of the person specification.
To arrange an informal discussion about the position of Group Manager, Law & Governance, please contact Mark Bearn on 020 7259 8743, email mark.bearn@hays.com or Jamie Houlders on 0113 200 3733, email jamie.houlders@hays.com
For a discussion about other posts advertised on this site, please contact Harriet Chapman on 0117 930 4430, email harriet.chapman@hays.com
