This Legal 500 firm is looking for an employment solicitor due to expansion.
An experienced Solicitor or CILEX/FILEX with 5+ years’ post-qualification experience. You will have strong experience of acting for employers on a wide range of matters and will be required to develop a mixed caseload of transactional, non-contentious and contentious employment work whilst working with colleagues from across our teams and office locations.
Providing strategic and clear advice, you will have exceptional client care skills, helping us to deliver every time against our Service Pledge. A proven track record of developing and growing client relationships. Your responsibilities will include:
* Providing comprehensive HR advice and support to employer clients;
* Drafting service agreements, contracts of employment, staff handbooks and relevant policies;
* Working with clients on disciplinary procedures and internal investigations;
* Advising employer clients on employee terminations, redundancies and restructuring, preparing settlement agreements and a good working knowledge of the tax implications;
* Transactional corporate support work;
* Advising on TUPE matters in transactional work and assisting the corporate team in due diligence and related employment work;
* Advising on boardroom disputes;
* Providing client representation in employment tribunal and court in respect of a broad range of claims including (but not limited to) unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and discrimination claims;
* Delivering training, seminars and legal updates, as well as regularly contributing to the firm’s social media output as part of a tailored business development plan.
Benefits
* A structured career path that provides all the information you need to develop and progress.
* A supportive and nurturing working environment.
* Flexible and hybrid working.
* Firm-wide and fee-earner bonus schemes.
* Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year, rising by one day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days.
* Automatic enrolment to our Employee Assistance Programme, which helps staff members experiencing personal problems that might adversely impact their work performance, health and wellbeing.
* Enrolment to our Healthcare Cash Plan after the probationary period. Cover includes dependant children and may be extended to partners or spouses at the employee’s expense.
* Each office has its own designated Social and Wellbeing champion, who is there to help promote good mental and physical health with a range of initiatives including social walks, book clubs, charitable activities and out-of-hours get-togethers and events.
* Annual staff events including summer and Christmas events, quarterly office lunches and our annual online Staff Quiz!
This really is a great firm to work for so please don’t delay in applying.
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