Immigration & Employment Lawyer in Bolton

Join Transforming PLC as an Immigration & Employment Specialist, playing a key role in supporting a multi-site, regulated organisation, with expert immigration compliance and employment law advice in a hybrid working environment.

Transforming PLC is a dynamic, regulated organisation operating across multiple sites. We are committed to maintaining robust governance, compliance, and people practices that support safe, effective, and high-quality services. Our legal and governance function plays a vital role in enabling the organisation to operate confidently, compliantly, and with integrity.

The Role

We are seeking a specialist Immigration and Employment Specialist to join our Legal & Governance team on an initial 6 month fixed-term basis. You will act as a trusted adviser to HR, Operations, and senior leadership, providing expert guidance across UK immigration sponsorship compliance and employment law matters. This is a varied role combining hands-on immigration compliance leadership with practical, solution-focused employment law advice in a fast-paced, multi-site environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead immigration compliance across multiple sponsorship licences, ensuring audit-ready systems, records, and reporting.
• Advise on Skilled Worker and related visa routes, including Certificates of Sponsorship, eligibility, conditions, and changes in circumstances.
• Oversee right-to-work processes, repeat checks, and expiry monitoring across the workforce lifecycle.
• Plan, deliver, and support internal immigration audits and Home Office compliance visits and enquiries.
• Provide day-to-day UK employment law advice to HR and managers on disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence, performance, redundancy, and restructures.
• Advise on discrimination, whistleblowing, family leave, flexible working, working time, and holiday pay matters.
• Draft and review employment contracts, policies, procedures, templates, and workforce documentation.
• Support high-risk investigations, exits, settlement discussions, and protected conversations with clear and defensible documentation.
• Manage Employment Tribunal pre-claim matters, ACAS Early Conciliation, and litigation (including instructing external counsel where required).
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments and translate them into practical HR guidance and training.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid working with flexibility across Head Office and operational sites.
• Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and Board-level stakeholders.
• Varied and impactful role spanning immigration compliance and employment law.
• Professional development and exposure to complex, regulated environments.
• Supportive and collaborative working culture.

The Ideal Candidate

You are a qualified solicitor (England & Wales or equivalent UK jurisdiction) or experienced lawyer/counsel with strong expertise in both employment law and business immigration. You are confident working in a commercially pragmatic way, advising senior stakeholders and HR teams in a fast-moving organisation.

About you:

• Qualified solicitor or equivalent legal professional.
• Strong post-qualification experience in UK employment law and business immigration.
• Hands-on experience with sponsor licence duties, Skilled Worker route, and right-to-work compliance.
• Strong understanding of HR processes and ability to provide clear, practical legal advice.
• Excellent drafting skills across contracts, policies, and legal documentation.
• Experience managing complex, high-risk employment matters with sound judgement.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work with senior leaders.
• Highly organised, detail-focused, and comfortable managing compliance processes and competing priorities.
• Willingness to travel to Head Office and operational sites as required.

Desirable experience includes commercial contract drafting, consultancy agreements, Employment Tribunal work, and experience in regulated, multi-site sectors such as social care, supported living, or healthcare.

How to apply for the role:

If you have the skills and experience required for this position, click “apply” today and follow the instructions provided to submit your CV and supporting information. You must be authorised to work in the UK. No agencies please.