Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Work-mode: Hybrid

Location: London, Brighton or Tunbridge Wells, England

Salary: Up to £70,000 gross per annum (depending on experience and qualifications)

Our client isa group of companies delivering commercially focused legal advice and solutions, HR support, wellbeing and training, mediation and dispute resolution services to a variety of clients. The exciting part is, it doesn’t stop there as they are constantly developing new products and services to meet clients’ needs.  

We are looking for an experienced Employment Solicitor with at least 3 years PQE. Joining a dynamic business, you will play a key role in providing high-level and proactive advice and assistance to clients on a range of employment matters. Ultimately, we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running and is happy to work in an extremely collaborative environment. We need someone who can manage their workload and supervise junior members of the team. You will have strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to organise and prioritise workloads without supervision. Someone keen to help grow our client's business so you will thrive on identifying potential new clients or development opportunities in your local area and nurturing existing relationships.

Responibilities

• Provide advice on a range of employment issues both contentious and non-contentious
• Advise employers and employees on employment/commercial problems and disputes
• Draft contracts, agreements, policies, and procedures
• Supervise junior team members providing technical guidance and helping to manage workload
• Proactively identify business development opportunities
• Actively participate in networking and marketing initiatives for the firm
• Build excellent relationships with new and existing clients
• Design and deliver training to clients and potential new clients as part of business development work.
• Prepare Tribunal or Court cases.
• Day to day running of a caseload with minimal supervision
• Working with our Accounts team to ensure that our billing process in completed in a timely and efficient manner.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• At least 2 years PQE gained within an established Employment team.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• Ability to present to and advise clients.
• Commercial acumen.
• Prior experience in supervising junior team members.
• Organised, with an ability to prioritise and a tenacity to see projects and tasks through to completion.
• Excellent communicator.
• Excellent multitasking skills.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
• Ambitious with drive to help identify opportunities and grow business.

Benefits

• Workplace pension.
• Private medical insurance.
• A health cashback plan which also covers dependent children under the age of 18.
• Group Life Insurance.
• A discretionary performance-related bonus scheme.
• 25 days holiday (full time) per year, plus Bank Holidays in England.
• Your birthday off work.
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free flu jabs