Senior Employment Law AdvisorSolicitor - Litigation

Are you an experienced Senior Employment Litigation Professional whos passionate about employment law and takes pride in delivering highquality and legally compliant advice and guidance to clients

WorkNest strive to provide the best value fixed fee employment law & employee relations advisory service in the UK. Supported by cutting edge technology we provide genuinely commercial and pragmatic advice focused on finding solutions for our clients EL/ER problems. The Senior Employment Law Advisor / Solicitor will play a fundamental role in the successful delivery of our business objectives.

Why your role matters

Essentially your role will be to provide high quality pragmatic and efficient litigation advice to WorkNests SME LME & MidMarket clients. Your robust Litigation experience will enable you to provide a brilliant service in relation to your own portfolio of Employment Tribunal cases including those for LME & MidMarket clients complex cases and multiparty proceedings. We would love for you to share your knowledge and experience with our trainees paralegals and junior advisers empowering them to develop into proficient professionals in Employment Law.

What youll be doing

Youll provide support to a portfolio of clients including some of WorkNests largest and most significant clients handling their Employment Tribunal cases. Throughout this role you will cultivate enduring relationships and establish yourself as a trusted advisor by ensuring advise in a timely efficient accurate practical and commercial will provide high quality advice and legally compliant documentation especially in relation to Employment Tribunal cases to our clients. You will adhere to Employment Tribunal deadlines and external insurance procedures. You will support the commercial team with proposals and prospective clients meetings and contribute to the efficiencies of the team through identifying and sharing process improvements shared resources and continuous improvement input.

About you

We are recruiting for a qualified legal professional (Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive). Candidates with a relevant equivalent HR/ER qualification or Litigation experience maybe considered. To be eligible for this role you will ideally be a minimum of 3 to 4 years PQE as an employment law solicitor/adviser. Excellent technical and up to date knowledge of employment law is pivotal alongside strong commercial awareness high standards of client care and evidence of highlevel achievement with business objectives.

Where youll be working

This is a hybrid role (a minimum of two days per week in the Glasgow office). Fully remote is also a consideration.

Whats in it for you

Salary: Up to 55000 per annum (depending on experience)and an attractive company benefits package including:

• 25 days holiday rising by one per year up to 28 days
• Birthday Day off
• VITO Days up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
• Health Cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Up to 15 per month fitness subsidence
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
• Free Will writing service
• EAP & Wellbeing services
• Weekly wellbeing classes

Who we are

WorkNest is part of a wider GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) division owned by Inflexion. We are a powerhouse of Employment Law HR Compliance and Health and Safety support services weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months fueled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups which has bought together the most gifted practitioners in people management health safety and wellbeing employment law professional training and business technology. We are proud to offer a broader range of services to help protect and nurture organisations of every size.

We have a national presence with main offices in Chester and Glasgow where our 400strong team including more than 75 qualified employment law solicitors 50 qualified HR consultants and over 50 qualified Health & safety consultants strive to be the organisation of excellence that employers turn to for nurture and protection. Were known for our personalised highquality support and pragmatic commerciallyminded approach as well as being a great place to work!

At WorkNest we believe our people are what make us. We value respect and support our colleagues understand the importance of worklife balance and work together to deliver a brilliant service for our clients.

We are committed to delivering on our four core values that we believe all our colleagues should align with: Integrity Excellence Teamwork and Inclusion.

So whats next

Does this sound like you Are you up for the challenge

If you think this role is a good fit for you please use the purple apply now button to begin your application. Youll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.

WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusionand ensuring that everyone job applicants clients colleagues and anyone else we deal with is treated fairly and with review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team however please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments we need to make to ensure a genuine equality of opportunity.

Required Experience:

Senior IC