Employment Solicitor

Description:

Employment Solicitor (Associate 1 + years PQE) - Belfast (Hybrid) - UK National Law Firm

Are you an employment solicitor interested in a new challenge and to take your career to the next level?

Working for this firm, the employment associate will get the opportunity to work with one of the UK's leading employment practices ranked a Tier 1 practice (Chambers/Legal 500), exposure to a broad range of complex and high profile employment matters with an exciting client base and a fast and career path as the Belfast team continues to grow. This role would suit an employment solicitor 1 + years PQE.

Why this role?

• Exposure to really high profile and high quality work with exciting clients
• Growing team with a clear career path
• Very flexible firm with a focus on employee wellbeing
• Mixed workstream of E & W and NI matters - opportunity to get dual qualified!
• Salaries at the top end of the NI market

Our Client

Our client is a leading UK National law firm. They have a strong reputation as an employer and a really progressive approach which is reflected in their awards for Top employer of the year, D & I strategies and family friendly policies. As a firm they really value work life balance and have a unique approach to flexible working to ensure it works for all employees. They work with some of the largest blue-chip clients and leading brands across a range of sectors and so can offer really good quality and high profile work. In addition, they also have a very clear and transparent approach to career development with each step set out clearly and regular career meetings.

The Role

Working as part of this leading employment practice you will get the opportunity to work on a dual workstream of employment matters to include NI work and also E & W matters. You will get the opportunity to work on a broad mix of high value and high profile employment matters both contentious and non-contentious. There will also be a large amount of advisory work for clients.

The spread of work you will get exposure to include business reorgs and redundancies, advising clients around sensitive/reputational issues, advising clients around grievances, boardroom support on reputational or corporate governance issues, employment tribunal representation, investigations, employee consultations and engagement, corporate immigration, TUPE and outsourcing etc.

You will be!

Ideally you will meet the following criteria however for the right candidate there is some potential flexibility;

• Qualified Solicitor - NI/E & W (or equivalent) - 1 years PQE
• PQE will have been gained focused mainly in employment, ideally acting for employers
• Demonstrable experience of working on a broad range of employment matters to include contentious and non-contentious employment matters
• Forward thinker you will have a really commercial approach to advising clients
• Excellent commuincation skills and client development skills
• Highly organised you will be able to manage busy and varied caseload