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Senior Employment Lawyer

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Salary:

90000.00 GBP / Year

Job Description:

Our client are a regulated, niche employment law service with a very different offering to the traditional law firms or large employment consultancies. They are now looking for a Senior Employment Lawyer to join their team – this role is remote working with team meet ups every 6 weeks. Our client act almost like an in-house employment law and ER service, providing commercially focused employment law and employee relations advice along with tribunal representation, investigations, training, diversity & inclusion and e-learning solutions. They are passionate about understanding the needs of their clients and work closely with them in order to provide a unique integrated service delivery model. They are looking for a Senior Employment Lawyer who shares this passion and is excited by the prospect of a varied workload, taking a pragmatic approach, innovating and contributing to commercial projects and business development.

Job Responsibility:

  • Providing commercially focused employment law and employee relations advice
  • Tribunal representation
  • Investigations
  • Training
  • Diversity & inclusion and e-learning solutions
  • Understanding the needs of clients
  • Working closely with clients to provide a unique integrated service delivery model
  • Taking a pragmatic approach
  • Innovating and contributing to commercial projects and business development
  • Key account management

Requirements:

  • Solid experience of working with a professional client base of HR teams in large organisations
  • Excellent knowledge of all areas of employment law
  • A practical approach to resolving employee relations challenges
  • Experience in working with Trade Unions and TUPE
  • Experience with complex contentious respondent matters
  • Ability to balance competing priorities and time pressures
  • Willingness and ability to travel to client premises and employment tribunals across the UK with overnight stays
  • Accountability for key account management, business development and complex tribunal cases

Nice to have:

  • Training experience
  • Willingness and ability to deliver innovative and engaging training experiences
What we offer:
  • Private Healthcare
  • Critical Illness Cover
  • Life Assurance
  • Medical Cashplan
  • Birthday off
  • Volunteering Days
  • Access to shopping discounts

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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