Principle Solicitor (Employment Law)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and support development of in-house Legal Affairs Team - this role specializing in Employment Law.

You will be responsible for providing legal advice and services to Trust staff across a wide range of matters, including supporting HR Department with employment law matters and assisting in developing internal policies and processes relevant to area of human resources & workforce management.

You will need to have a recognized legal qualification and current professional registration, combined with recent experience in the field of employment and contracts law.

You should be self-motivated and enthusiastic, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, an eye for accuracy and detail, and a desire to ensure high quality care and services to patients, staff and the public.

An ability to work with minimal supervision and manage day to day systems, processes and teams whilst managing a personal workload is essential.

In return we offer a best in class pension scheme, flexible working patterns and work locations coupled with excellent work -life balance.  Furthermore the trust has a host of discounts and incentives - including salary sacrifice car scheme.

Main duties of the job

• To provide professional legal advice and representation to clients regarding issues, processes, legal claims/concerns/disputes/risk management, policy and procedures. 2. To represent the client in formal negotiations, legal proceedings, at courts, tribunals, or other venues, undertaking advocacy where appropriate. 3. To take and maintain detailed and accurate notes of meetings, such as court hearings, witness meetings, tribunals, inquests and case conferences and other key activities (as appropriate for the specialist area of law) for use by the post holder and others. 4. To draft advice and formal legal documentation, such as formal legal correspondence witness statements, instructions to counsel and experts,  agreements, contractual documentation, court documents and forms, or policies. 5. Generally, to work autonomously with responsibility for the day-to-day management of their own case load. 6. Line management and supervision of junior qualified lawyers, pre-qualified lawyers (such as paralegals and trainee solicitors) and support staff as required.  7. To work with our legal case and document management systems and processes, to securely create, store and share documents, to enter and maintain key information, including key dates and accurate records of time spent.

For a full list of duties please download the full Job Description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please consider in detail published job description and personal specification for the role of Principal Employment Law Solicitor.