Employment Counsel

An established and highly regarded UK organisation is seeking an experienced Employment Counsel to join its in-house legal team.

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This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded employment lawyer to play a key role in supporting a large, complex business through a period of organisational change and transformation. You will work closely with HR, senior leadership and operational stakeholders, providing pragmatic and strategic legal advice across a broad range of employment and industrial relations matters.

The Role

You'll be responsible for:

• Providing day-to-day employment law advice to HR teams, managers and senior leaders.
• Advising on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
• Supporting grievance, disciplinary, whistleblowing and employee relations issues.
• Advising on restructuring, outsourcing, insourcing and TUPE-related projects.
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, policies and restrictive covenants.
• Managing employment tribunal and court matters where required.
• Delivering legal training and guidance to business stakeholders.
• Contributing to wider legal risk management and compliance initiatives.

About You

You will be a qualified Solicitor or Barrister in at least one UK jurisdiction with approximately 4+ years' PQE and strong employment law expertise.

We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Strong technical employment law knowledge.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders in a complex organisation.
• A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach.
• Experience in employee and industrial relations matters, ideally within a unionised environment.
• The ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Previous in-house experience, either exclusively or combined with private practice.

What's on Offer?

• Salary of £75,000 - £95,000 depending on experience.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Enhanced family-friendly benefits.
• Professional development support.
• Private wellbeing and employee assistance programmes. xwzovoh
• Life assurance and additional lifestyle benefits.