Legal Professional Skills Trainer

We are looking for a confident facilitator and committed team player,who has the capability to work at speed, methodically and to a high standard, to join our Learning and Development team. It would be advantageous to havea background in a law firm or a law degree graduate with a keen interest in learning and development

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with our legal teams, curate the legal and professional skills curriculum for the firm.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of generic legal skills training such as time recording, drafting and research skills.
• Design and deliver engaging training modules, workshops, and e-learning content for other personal development topics and skills such as giving feedback, delegation and presentation skills, supervision skills and file disciplines.
• Managing all requests for external legal training, including attendance at conferences or events in the pursuit of legal/professional development.
• Responsible for the delivery of Team Away Days include curating and delivering, if required, the content of legal and personal development sessions.
• Collaborate with our Heads of Teams and Learning Leads to identify training needs and curate and acquire legal learning resources that meets their needs.
• Identify and collaborate with other business sponsors, subject matter experts, and external partners to drive relevant and effective learning solutions throughout the business.
• Working with the Learning Administrator to coordinate the creation and delivery of new Bitesize learning materials as required, taking input from Risk, Q&I, File Audits and Project Star.
• Collaborate with other teams to optimise the impact of Bitesize Best Practice, new HCR systems and GenAI learning materials and sessions.
• Contribute to Best Practice training sessions, with IT and Q&I team, either in delivery or design, or both.
• Ensure the value of the firm’s investment in knowledge management, MBL and library resources can be optimised and best meet the needs of users, leveraging supplier and account managers.
• Manage and maintain the firm’s library of legal skills and knowledge management resources as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• Prepare and share monthly usage statistics for knowledge management and MBL resources
• Making resources accessible via the Learning Management System (LMS) and aligned to career and learning pathways.
• Provide support to trainees and junior lawyers in accessing legal learning and research tools.
• Manage and source external providers, ensuring partnerships with external vendors are optimised and measured for impact and commercial value.
• Keep updated regarding developments in legal technology and adult learning principles to continuously enhance the firm’s training offering.
• Horizon scanning with other group services teams for appropriate new legal resources and innovations is a key part of the role.
• Promote and curate content in the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Recommend and implement iterative improvements to existing courses and programmes.

• Experience designing and delivering both facilitated and digital learning sessions.
• Previous law firm experience is desirable
• Experience of using LexisNexis legal resources (e.g. Lexis+, Lexis PSL, Lexis Library) and/or Thomson Reuters legal resources (e.g. Practical Law, Westlaw).
• Excellent IT skills including good knowledge of Outlook, Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
• The ability to work using own initiative and as a team member, maintaining a professional positive attitude at all times.
• Ability to seek out and engage business sponsors, subject matter experts to validate and support learning initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate with subject matter experts to create material that is memorable and engaging.
• Effective stakeholder management.
• Communicates effectively and with confidence at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail with written content, including copy and proofing.
• Flexible and adaptable (solutions focused when faced with changing priorities).

• 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• 1/3 gym membership contribution
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Happy People/Perks at Work benefits portal
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Flu vaccinations

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.