Professional Support Lawyer - Employment
- Employer
- Weightmans
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Reference
- 21386
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- Practice area
- Employment
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
About your new role
Our market leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team advises employers across the UK on all aspects of employment, pensions and immigration law. Our clients are some of the UK's largest and best known employers. We believe that the quality of our clients and strength of our relationships with our clients speaks volumes about the quality of the service we provide.
We are currently recruiting for a Professional Support Lawyer to join our HR Rely team.
This role will be closely aligned to HR Rely, our flagship product, which provides fixed fee employment, HR and advisory support for employers.
As an integral member of the HR Rely team, your key responsibilities will include:
- Updating the HR Rely Website with the latest employment law developments to ensure clients have access to accurate and up-to-date information.
- Updating and maintaining our employment document library with minimal supervision.
- Developing client-facing tools and training programs to improve the quality of service provided to clients.
- Staying informed about employment law trends and maximising current awareness updates to proactively address potential legal issues.
- Creating and maintaining best practice guides and knowledge resources to support the team in delivering high-quality legal advice.
- Proactively seek ways to help our lawyers be more efficient.
- Bringing any ideas to Product & Innovation and Business Change – e.g. how new technology may be harnessed and leveraged for benefit. How processes might need to be adapted.
- Write and edit guidance notes, precedents, checklists and provide practical advice to employment lawyers.
- Attend external meetings and events as appropriate and maintain personal professional development.
- Supporting on a wide range of projects as and when required.
- Delivering training and some limited legal work to achieve a modest financial target.
To be successful in this role, you must possess the following qualifications and skills:
- Proven experience as an Employment lawyer with a strong background in Employment Law.
- Excellent drafting, research, and communication skills with keen attention to detail.
- Ability to write about, present and train others in relation to legal developments, including case law, legislation and procedural changes
- A high level of interpersonal skills, able to work collaboratively with a range of people to deliver results.
- A pragmatic and commercial approach to legal problem-solving.
- Proven ability to juggle demands and resources with various requirements and priorities
- Good time management, organisation and IT skills.
- An entrepreneurial mindset - looking for opportunities to sell bolt-on services (eg training) to our existing HRR clients.
Working alongside the ever-growing HR Rely team you will be at the forefront of our business and future development. Our HR Rely service, a fixed fee employment law service, grants clients access to a dedicated team of experts addressing all employment and HR requirements. We offer 'bolt-on' services to tailor our support offerings for a personalised experience within many sectors including manufacturing, retail, utilities, professional services, hospitality and education.
About You
- Experienced Employment lawyer requiring minimal supervision
- Passionate about keeping abreast of legal developments
- Enjoy presenting/training both to colleagues and clients
- Looking for opportunities to sell additional services (such as training) to existing clients
- Team player
- Excellent communicator - both oral and written
- Attention to detail
Company
Weightmans is a Top 40 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer and 10th overall employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards 2024 and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK.
We believe in the power of people, innovation and partnership to provide strategic business insight and deep expertise to a range of private companies, public sector organisations and individuals.
At the heart of our culture and organisation is a simple purpose that informs everything we think, say and do: See the Possibility.
We believe thinking differently allows us to see the possibilities others don’t.
Click here to find out more about industry recognition for excellence, through our achievements, awards and accreditations.
The independent research showed "Weightmans provides exceptional employee conditions, nurtures and develops talent throughout all levels of the organisation." We are truly committed to fostering a culture of equality and diversity, where everyone in the firm is respected and recognised on merit for the work that they do.
We strongly encourage applications from people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations and disabilities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustment at any stage of the application process.
Please feel free to note your preferred pronouns in your application.
Work for a firm where people matter – work for Weightmans.
As well as being immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people we offer a wide range of benefits including;
- 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part time)
- Hybrid working including provision of home office equipment*
- Healthcare cover/ Medicash
- Pension plan Life Insurance 4 x salary
- Interest free travel loan scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme including counselling, legal and consumer advice service
- Discounted gym membership Discounted dental scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Offers & discounts Great reward and recognition scheme
*there are a small number of roles that cannot be performed from home, your Recruitment Adviser can confirm.
Please note
- We encourage candidates to speak to us direct/apply direct for the opportunities we have available.
- Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only.
- We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.
- The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.
- Website
- https://www.weightmans.com/careers/
- Telephone
- +44 (0)345 073 9900
- Location
-
100 Old Hall Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 9QJ
United Kingdom
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