Legal Advisor (Employment)

About the Department

The Legal Services team within the broader Governance and Legal Services Department provides support across the full range of Goldsmiths’ activities, offering legal advice in areas including: accommodation and estates; procurement and commercial contracts; partnerships and collaborations; charity and corporate governance; consumer protection; general education; freedom of information and data protection, and employment law.

About the Role

The Role Holder will be responsible for providing advice in relation to employment and industrial relations law including: recruitment; employment contracts; disciplinaries and grievances; harassment and bullying; long-term absences; reasonable adjustments; whistleblowing; reward and recognition; statutory consultation, redundancy and dismissal; settlement agreements; trades unions and industrial action; and TUPE. The RH will additionally review and amend policies and procedures, and develop and deliver training in relation to the above areas.

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified lawyer with extensive experience providing employment law and industrial relations advice (almost certainly within the public sector if not previously in HEIs), used to working with a great deal of flexibility and independence in a complex and dynamic environment.

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