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Working for a fantastic employer who are going from strength to strength and pride themselves on their culture, we are excited to be recruiting for an experienced SeniorEmployment Law Lawyer/Solicitor (Litigation)who enjoys supporting a variety of clients with their Employment Law and HR issues whilst providing an excellent service to their clients.
Location: Chester,2 days in the office and 3 days from home
Salary:Up to £55,000 plus excellent benefits
Hours:37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Main purpose of role
- To provide high quality, pragmatic and efficient litigation advice to SME, LME & Mid-Market clients.
- To provide brilliant service in relation to your own portfolio of Employment Tribunal cases, including those forLME & Mid-Market clients, complex cases and multi-party proceedings.
- To supervise and mentor trainees/paralegals and more junior advisers as necessary.
Main Duties:
- To provide high quality advice and legally compliant documentation, especially in relation to
- Employment Tribunal cases, to clients to ensure we provide the best fixed fee legal & ER advisory service in the UK.
- To comply with Employment Tribunal deadlines and external insurance procedures as required.
- To make sure all advice to clients is timely, efficient, accurate, practical and commercial.
- To assist, mentor, supervise and train junior colleagues as required.
- To support several of clients largest and most important clients with their Employment Tribunal cases
- To liaise with employee representatives, ACAS and/or litigants in person in respect of ongoing Tribunal proceedings
- To adhere to requirements and relevant professional standards in dealings with clients.
- To help clients to achieve their commercial objectives, whilst complying with the law.
Account Management:
- Proactively manage a portfolio of Employment Tribunal cases by maintaining regular contact with key stakeholders, managing expectations for delivery.
- Support the commercial team with proposals and prospective clients meetings.
- Contribute to the efficiencies of the team through identifying and sharing process improvements, shared resources and continuous improvement input
- To participate, where required, in business development opportunities.
- To provide insight and analysis on client usage to the commercial team in order to assist their renewal conversations with clients.
- To maintain a detailed working knowledge of operating procedures and to ensure that those procedures are followed.
- To comply with Employment Tribunal deadlines and external insurance processes.
- To use best endeavours to ensure the departments KPIs are consistently achieved.
Qualifications
Either a qualified legal professional (Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive) or relevant equivalent HR/ER qualification or experience.
Experience:
Eligibility for this role will typically be a minimum of 3 to 4 years PQE as an employment law solicitor/adviser and is dependent on performance. Candidates with equivalent experience delivering EL & ER advice in other legal or HR settings may also be considered.
Competencies:
- Excellent technical and up to date knowledge of employment law
- Proven in depth knowledge of some areas.
- Efficient working in line with our fixed fee model
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines whilst maintaining high standards of service
- Strong commercial awareness and high standards of client care
- Evidence of a high level of achievement of business objectives and client satisfaction
**Roberts Webb Recruitment are acting as a recruitment agency on behalf of this company and role**
