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In-house Employment Solicitor

Employer
Bright Horizons
Location
Rushden, Northamptonshire
Salary
£Competitive
Closing date
17 Apr 2017

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Practice area
Employment
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
In-house

Job Details

Due to company growth, Bright Horizons are looking for an experienced Employment Solicitor to join our highly varied In-House Legal Department. The role will ideally be based full time (Monday to Friday) at our head office in Rushden, Northamptonshire, however if required can be based at one of our other offices in Chesham, London or Wilmslow.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions specialises in managing high-quality nurseries that meet the needs of working families and provides work/life consulting services to employers now operating over 300 nurseries in throughout the UK and Ireland. Bright Horizons has been listed for the last 11 years as one of the country’s top 50 “Great Places to Work” by the Great Place to Work Institute.

The work within the Legal Department is highly varied and covers all legal issues arising from operating a business in the early years, wellbeing and work/life sector.  We work in partnership with many departments covering a variety of legal areas such as contracts, commercial property, employment, acquisitions, risk mitigation, legal dispute resolution, litigation and general legal advice.

The role will be required to support all areas of the business as needed but with a specialised knowledge and core focus in employment law.

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

 

  • Qualified solicitor with a minimum of three years’ experience of practising employment law, either in private practice or in an in house role;
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
  • Ability to translate complex legal concepts to non-legal audience;
  • Ability to give commercially practical legal advice that balances and protects the actual risks to the business;
  • Ability to work effectively to objectives with the personal sensitivity to manage negotiations with a range of stakeholders.

Recommended Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Experience in practicing Personal Injury Law either pre, during or post Training Contract would be desirable but not essential;
  • A basic understanding of the principals relating to contracts, intellectual property, data protection and litigation.

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

Company

Bright Horizons Family Solutions specialises in managing high-quality nurseries that meet the needs of working families and provides work/life consulting services to employers now operating over 300 nurseries in throughout the UK and Ireland. Bright Horizons has been listed for the last 11 years as one of the country’s top 50 “Great Places to Work” by the Great Place to Work Institute.

 

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