Employment Lawyer

Watershed Europe Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Employment Lawyer to enhance its services in employment law. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to advise senior managers. This full-time role offers a competitive salary, private health insurance, and a car allowance, making it ideal for someone who enjoys travel.

Benefits

Private health insurance

Car allowance

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ post-qualified experience in a fees-based professional firm.
• Solid technical competence in employment law.
• Up-to-date with modern working practices.

Responsibilities

• Help grow and develop services in employment law.
• Advise on both routine and complex matters.
• Represent clients at employment tribunals.

Skills

Experience in employment law

Confidence to advise senior managers

Commercially astute

Communication skills

Relationship building

Job description

Chief Executive Officer at Collinson Grant and Watershed

Watershed is a solicitors’ practice with commercially minded employment lawyers and human resources professionals. Based in Manchester, but with national clients, it is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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 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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Legal

Industries: Law Practice and Legal Services