Senior Employment Law Advisor/Solicitor - Litigation in Chester

Are you an experienced Senior Employment Litigation Professional who’s passionate about employment law and takes pride in delivering high-quality and legally compliant advice and guidance to clients? WorkNest strive to provide the best value, fixed fee employment law & employee relations advisory service in the UK. Supported by cutting edge technology, we provide genuinely commercial and pragmatic advice focused on finding solutions for our clients EL/ER problems. The Senior Employment Law Advisor / Solicitor will play a fundamental role in the successful delivery of our business objectives.

Why your role matters

Essentially your role will be to provide high quality, pragmatic and efficient litigation advice to WorkNest’s SME, LME & Mid-Market clients. Your robust Litigation experience will enable you to provide a brilliant service in relation to your own portfolio of Employment Tribunal cases, including those for LME & Mid-Market clients, complex cases, and multi-party proceedings. We would love for you to share your knowledge and experience with our trainees, paralegals, and junior advisers, empowering them to develop into proficient professionals in Employment Law.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide support to a portfolio of clients, including some of WorkNest's largest and most significant clients, handling their Employment Tribunal cases. Throughout this role, you will cultivate enduring relationships and establish yourself as a trusted advisor by ensuring advise in a timely, efficient, accurate, practical, and commercial manner.

You will provide high quality advice and legally compliant documentation, especially in relation to Employment Tribunal cases, to our clients. You will adhere to Employment Tribunal deadlines and external insurance procedures. You will support the commercial team with proposals and prospective clients’ meetings and contribute to the efficiencies of the team through identifying and sharing process improvements, shared resources, and continuous improvement input.

About you

We are recruiting for a qualified legal professional (Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive). Candidates with a relevant equivalent HR/ER qualification or Litigation experience may be considered. To be eligible for this role you will ideally be a minimum of 3 to 4 years PQE as an employment law solicitor/adviser. Excellent technical and up to date knowledge of employment law is pivotal alongside strong commercial awareness, high standards of client care and evidence of high-level achievement with business objectives.

Where you’ll be working

This is a hybrid role (a minimum of two days per week in the Glasgow office). Fully remote is also a consideration.

What’s in it for you

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum (depending on experience) and an attractive company benefits package, including:

• 25 days holiday, rising by one per year up to 28 days
• Birthday Day off
• VITO Days – up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
• Health Cash plan
• Life Assurance
• Up to £15 per month fitness subsidence
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
• Free Will writing service
• EAP & Wellbeing services
• Weekly wellbeing classes

Who we are

WorkNest is part of a wider GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) division owned by Inflexion. We are a powerhouse of Employment Law, HR, Compliance and Health and Safety support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months, fueled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups, which has brought together the most gifted practitioners in people management, health, safety and wellbeing, employment law, professional training, and business technology. We are proud to offer a broader range of services to help protect and nurture organisations of every size. We have a national presence with main offices in Chester and Glasgow, where our 400-strong team – including more than 75 qualified employment law solicitors, 50 qualified HR consultants and over 50 qualified Health & safety consultants – strive to be the organisation of excellence that employers turn to for nurture and protection. We’re known for our personalised, high-quality support and pragmatic, commercially-minded approach – as well as being a great place to work!

At WorkNest, we believe our people are what make us. We value, respect and support our colleagues, understand the importance of work-life balance, and work together to deliver a brilliant service for our clients. We are committed to delivering on our four core values that we believe all our colleagues should align with: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion.

So what’s next?

Does this sound like you? Are you up for the challenge? If you think this role is a good fit for you, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post. WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusion and ensuring that everyone – job applicants, clients, colleagues, and anyone else we deal with – is treated fairly and with respect. We continuously review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team, however, please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments we need to make to ensure, a genuine equality of opportunity.