G7 Lawyer - Regulation

Contract Type:

Temporary

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

07/05/2026

About OPSS - do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you. We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade.

We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency. Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence. Further information can be found on our website. The OPSS Legal Advice and Practice team is a highly regarded team with a mixture of public sector and private practice backgrounds.

The team provides legal advice across all of OPSS's functions. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated lawyer with strong interpersonal skills who is able to work well within a team.

This post reports directly to the Head of Regulatory Legal Advice.

You will work closely with teams across the OPSS to provide pragmatic, solution focused and high quality legal advice. The scope of the role, reflecting the breadth of OPSS's functions, is broad. We do not expect applicants to have existing expertise in all areas of OPSS's work but you must be willing to advise on a wide range of matters including our enforcement across a range of civil and criminal legislation, statutory decision making, development of policy, and data transformation programme.

In doing so, you will liaise with both DBT and other government departments' legal advisors (GLD) as well as other regulators and commercial entities as appropriate.

You will have responsibility for a stimulating, wide ranging portfolio of work which includes: Providing timely and high quality legal advice to colleagues on a wide range of issues relating to OPSS's operational activity, both in respect of discrete requests for legal assistance and on larger matters; Managing, with appropriate supervision, your own caseload and working collaboratively with others on larger matters; Providing strategic legal advice when OPSS is considering, or has committed to, taking on new regulatory functions on behalf of other Government departments; Advising on our data transformation programme, leading legal compliance approaches to data sharing, data handling and data security; Advising on data protection and FOI issues; Understanding policy perspectives and confidently presenting delivery solutions; Highlighting to senior colleagues any significant legal risks, particularly in your practice areas, on a timely basis; Liaising with legal teams/advisors of stakeholders and other government departments/regulators as appropriate; Contributing to the learning and development of the OPSS Legal Advice and Practice team, as well as to OPSS more broadly.

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