Senior Lawyer - Employment

Anthony Collins LLP; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Birmingham seeks an experienced Employment Lawyer (Associate or above) with over 6 years PQE. The position emphasizes senior responsibility in managing client relationships, mentoring colleagues, and engaging in business development activities. This is an opportunity to work on high-stakes, meaningful employment matters that positively impact communities. Ideal candidates will possess strong relationship-building skills and excellent communication abilities, along with a commitment to the firm's values-oriented mission.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus 2 gift days at Christmas

3 days for social-purpose volunteering

Onsite café and gym access

Full IT support for home working

Qualifications

• Significant Employment Law experience (ideally 6+ PQE).
• Track record of supervising and mentoring colleagues.
• Confidence to lead on complex matters.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of key client relationships.
• Lead and nurture colleagues, offering guidance.
• Play an active role in business development.

Skills

Employment Law expertise

Strong relationship-building skills

Clear communication

Excellent drafting skills

Collaborative approach

Education

Qualified solicitor status

Job description

Want to use your Employment law expertise to make a genuine, lasting difference?

At Anthony Collins, we believe law is a powerful tool for positive social impact. Our Employment team works with organisations that improve lives every day – national charities, major housing associations, well-known care providers, local authorities, faith-based organisations, and schools and academies. These are clients whose decisions shape communities, support vulnerable people, and drive social change.

We are seeking an experienced lawyer, Associate or above(ideally 6+ PQE), to join our specialist team in Birmingham or Manchester . This is a role for someone who wants senior responsibility, high-quality work, and the opportunity to help nurture a team with purpose.

As a senior member of the team, you will:

Take ownership of key client relationships, becoming a trusted adviser on sensitive and strategically important matters.

Lead and nurture colleagues, offering supervision, guidance and development support.

Play an active role in business development helping the team continue to grow its market-leading presence.

You will work on a wide range of interesting and meaningful matters, including:

Delivering tailored, practical advice that supports clients’ missions and helps them serve their communities effectively.

Advising on senior, complex and high-stakes employee relations issues – disciplinaries, grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination and safeguarding-related matters.

Supporting large-scale reorganisations, restructuring, redundancy programmes and TUPE transfers.

Managing Employment Tribunal claims for respondent clients across our core sectors.

About the candidate

You will bring:

Significant Employment Law experience (ideally 6+ PQE) with the confidence to lead on complex matters.

A track record of supervising, mentoring or developing colleagues.

Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to become a trusted partner to senior stakeholders.

Clear, pragmatic communication and excellent drafting skills.

A collaborative approach, grounded in strong professional values.

This role is ideal for someone looking to deepen their expertise , step into greater leadership responsibility, and work on matters with real purpose and impact.

About the firm

What’s in it for you?

Excellent technical training and clear pathways for sector-focused career development.

25 days’ holiday plus 2 gift days at Christmas.

3 days per year for social-purpose volunteering.

Newly refurbished office with onsite café and free access to onsite gym.

Full IT provision and support for effective home working.

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a specialist law firm with a clear purpose: to improve lives, communities and society. For more than 50 years we have combined market-leading legal expertise with genuine commitment to values-driven work and long-term client relationships. We are proud to partner with organisations that make a real difference – and we’re looking for someone who shares that passion.

What makes Anthony Collins Solicitors distinctive, beyond simply being a sector-specialist law firm, is our people and the values we share. We’re extremely proud of the calibre of people that we attract; people who are inspired by our values, motivated by our vision and work with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.