Employment Solicitor

1 week ago

Reading, United Kingdom Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Trust is looking to recruit an Employment Solicitor to join our Employee Relations Team. This is a new role so the successful candidate will be instrumental in setting up this in-house provision.

Although you will be a core member of the People Directorate, you will receive professional support from our Head of Legal Services, and you will liaise with the Trust's Employment Solicitors. You will be the first point of contact for all aspects relating to employment law issues and you will act on behalf of the Trust.

The successful candidate with have a Law Degree & LPC (or equivalent) and will be registered as a Solicitor with the SRA or with CILEX as a Legal Executive. In addition, the successful candidate will have employment law experience including advocacy at Employment Tribunals.

Main duties of the job

Key duties include providing employment advice and support during internal disputes, investigations and processes prior to litigation and defending Employment Tribunal Claims. The Employment Solicitor will advise upon and manage exposure to legal risk.

About us

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rates the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Other duties include advising Disciplinary Hearing panel members in relation to complex disciplinary hearings as well as supporting the drafting of outcome decisions and supporting the Trust in the development and execution of general Settlement Agreement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

oLaw Degree & LPC (or equivalent) oRegistration as a Solicitor with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority or registration with CILEX Regulation as a Legal Executive

Experience

Essential

oEmployment law experience oAdvocacy at an Employment Tribunal

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