Oculus Legal Group
Solicitor
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Senior Employment Solicitor, 5+ Years' Experience
National Team | £75,000–£90,000+ | Hybrid Working | Uncapped Bonus - Nottingham
A leading national law firm is looking to appoint a Senior Employment Solicitor with 5+ years' experience to join its exceptional and highly regarded national Employment team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Employment Solicitor looking to work alongside Legal 500 recommended Employment lawyers, advising major national clients on complex and high-value Employment matters.
The role offers a genuinely supportive and collaborative environment, hybrid working, excellent career progression and, importantly, no individual billing target.
The Role
You will provide specialist Employment law and HR advisory services to a broad range of businesses, from large PLCs and national organisations through to SMEs.
Your work will include:
- Disciplinary and grievance matters
- Unfair dismissal
- Discrimination
- TUPE
- Whistleblowing
- Redundancy and restructures
- Strategic Employment advice to senior management teams and boards
- Complex Employment and HR advisory work
- Advising senior executives and professionals across all aspects of the employment relationship
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You will have the opportunity to work on a varied and high-quality caseload, advising sophisticated clients on both contentious and non-contentious Employment matters.
Why Join?
- £75,000–£90,000+ salary, depending on experience
- No individual billing target
- Two discretionary bonus schemes
- Firm-wide bonus of 4%–14%, depending on overall firm performance
- Individual bonus is fully uncapped, based on billing, charity and social initiatives, diversity and inclusion, and wider contributions
- Team members frequently receive double-figure individual bonuses
- Hybrid and flexible working
- 26–28 days' holiday + bank holidays
- Additional day off at Christmas
- Option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days
- 6–8% employer pension contribution
- Death in Service
- Mental Health & Wellbeing Programme
- Regular social events
- Excellent career development and progression opportunities
- Opportunity to work alongside a highly experienced, nationally recognised Employment team
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About You
You will ideally be a Senior Employment Solicitor with 5+ years' experience, with a strong background in contentious Employment work and experience acting for respondent clients. You will ideally have experience advising large national or corporate clients and be comfortable handling complex Employment matters with a high degree of autonomy.
This is an excellent opportunity for an Employment Solicitor looking to join a leading national team, work alongside Legal 500 recommended lawyers and develop their career within a supportive environment without the pressure of an individual billing target.
If this opportunity could be of interest and you would like to discuss it confidentially, please get in touch.
Ellie Marshall
ellie.marshall@oculuslegalgroup.com
07383 821952
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