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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time.
DEPARTMENT: Employment Law BBC Legal.
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House Hybrid - the Employment Law Team works a minimum of Tuesdays and Wednesdays from the office and then subject to team needs and work permitting the remaining time from home.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 60600 - 70000pa plus London Weighting (5441pa) depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The BBC is seeking a qualified employment lawyer to join our team of employment lawyers based in London to complement the experience of the existing team.
Working within the BBCs legal division youll be providing advice on a variety of issues. This will include autonomously handling employment litigation cases and advising on grievances and disciplinaries redundancy discrimination and equal pay whistleblowing and TUPE.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
Join our highly skilled Employment Law team providing expert UK legal advice on employment law across the BBC. The work is challenging and fast moving and you will gain experience of both contentious and non-contentious work.
This is an exciting opportunity to gain a breadth of employment law experience in a supportive environment working aspart of a team. The BBCs employment lawyers are responsible for providing a high quality legal advisory service for senior managers and HR professionals across the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
As a Lawyer you will:
- provide a high quality legal advisory service for senior managers and HR professionals across the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries
- handle tribunal cases and providing advice on a variety of issues including discrimination grievances and disciplinaries
- manage large amounts of data and materials
- subject to your seniority have sole responsibility for matters or tasks or work with a more senior colleague
- support training and knowledge management activities
- work collaboratively with colleagues in the team and across the BBC
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- A UK-qualified employment lawyer with a current practising certificate and excellent academics.
- Good knowledge of employment law and relevant experience gained within a leading law firm and/or specialist employment team. This will include experience of advising and/or working autonomously on a range of varied and challenging employment legal matters (including employment tribunals).
- Possess excellent analytical document management organisational and communication skills along with the enthusiasm and flexibility for the challenges of this role.
- Youll also be able to work under pressure maintaining excellent attention to detail successfully prioritise work whilst handling a number of different matters at the same time and meet deadlines
- Ability to work supportively as a team member and to build and manage relationships at all levels.
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- This role would suit NQ to 3 years Post Qualified Experience (we would also consider junior lawyers with higher PQE)
- Previous experience in the Media industry.
- Previous experience in-house
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
CS25
Employment Type
Full-Time
