Job Description
Watershed is looking for a Senior Employment Lawyer who can handle the following responsibilities:
* Helping to grow and develop our services in employment law, maximising opportunities and developing long-term, fruitful relationships with both new and existing clients.
* Advising daily on a wide range of both routine and complex matters, that can be contentious or non-contentious, covering all aspects of employment law.
* Representing clients at the employment tribunal and the employment appeal tribunal, including carrying out any advocacy.
* Helping clients transform their business by advising on, and often participating in, complex collective redundancies, collective bargaining, large-scale changes to terms and conditions, and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) transfers.
* Working on and managing a range of clients' projects and dealing with their day-to-day employment matters.
* Building and sustaining relationships, developing new accounts, and providing innovative solutions, while offering clients innovative ideas about employment law services technology, approaches, and methodology.
About you
We are seeking a Senior Employment Lawyer who has:
* Experience in employment law, with a track record of working with large private sector businesses.
* 5+ years’ Post Qualified Experience in a fees-based professional firm.
* Solid technical competence in employment law.
* The confidence to credibly advise senior managers within large organisations.
You should also be:
* Up-to-date with modern working practices, while understanding the day-to-day pressures busy managers experience.
* Personable and professional, with the ability and drive to develop new business in a competitive industry.
* Capable of building and maintaining relationships with demanding clients.
* A confident communicator, with the experience needed to present and provide a range of services and products that match clients' needs.
* Commercially astute, with an unqualified desire to build long-term relationships.
Salary and benefits
The successful Senior Employment Lawyer will receive a competitive salary depending on experience. They will also receive private health insurance and a car allowance.
This would be an excellent position for an individual who enjoys travel.
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