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Employment Counsel
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An established and highly regarded UK organisation is seeking an experienced Employment Counsel to join its in-house legal team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded employment lawyer to play a key role in supporting a large, complex business through a period of organisational change and transformation. You will work closely with HR, senior leadership and operational stakeholders, providing pragmatic and strategic legal advice across a broad range of employment and industrial relations matters.
The Role
You'll be responsible for:
- Providing day-to-day employment law advice to HR teams, managers and senior leaders.
- Advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
- Supporting grievance, disciplinary, whistleblowing and employee relations issues.
- Advising on restructuring, outsourcing, insourcing and TUPE-related projects.
- Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, policies and restrictive covenants.
- Managing employment tribunal and court matters where required.
- Delivering legal training and guidance to business stakeholders.
- Contributing to wider legal risk management and compliance initiatives.
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About You
You will be a qualified Solicitor or Barrister in at least one UK jurisdiction with approximately 4+ years' PQE and strong employment law expertise. We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
- Strong technical employment law knowledge.
- Experience advising senior stakeholders in a complex organisation.
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach.
- Experience in employee and industrial relations matters, ideally within a unionised environment.
- The ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Previous in-house experience, either exclusively or combined with private practice.
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What's on Offer?
- Salary of £75,000 - £95,000 depending on experience.
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- Generous pension contribution.
- Enhanced family-friendly benefits.
- Professional development support.
- Private wellbeing and employee assistance programmes.
- Life assurance and additional lifestyle benefits.
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