Employment Solicitor

About your new role

Our market leading Employment, Pensions and Immigration team is seeking an experienced employment lawyer primarily to work with our healthcare clients. We advise clients across the UK including some of the UK's largest and best known employers. We believe that the quality of our clients and strength of our relationships with our clients speaks volumes about the quality of the service we provide.

The candidate will be based at our Manchester office, which currently consists of three Partners, two Principal Associates, one Associate and a Trainee. Our team is highly ranked in the Legal Directories and has ambitions to grow further.

As a lawyer in the healthcare team, this is a great opportunity to play an integral role in growing our business, working alongside Partners to drive the practice forward, with scope for career development. You will manage a mixed caseload of employment work, predominantly for clients in the primary care, secondary care and private healthcare sectors and will be responsible for:

• Advising clients on the full range of employment law issues, including redundancy, disciplinary matters, grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination and detriment claims.
• Defending Employment Tribunal claims including drafting defences, bundles, witness statements and merits reports
• Advising in relation to change projects, changing terms and conditions and consultation requirements
• Industrial relations advice
• Assisting other members of the team with their caseloads as appropriate
• Drafting articles and legal updates
• Assisting with business development initiatives including training and networking
• Working in accordance with client and internal SLAs
• Working in accordance with Weightmans’ values and procedures
• Contributing to set team financial and utilisation targets

This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will have other duties and responsibilities that fall within the remit of the role.

Ideally you will have previous experience as an Employment solicitor and a genuine and demonstrable interest in the above area of work. As the role is varied, we are looking for you to have a flexible approach to the work you do and be able to adapt to different tasks. We also require you to have/be;

• 5 + year PQE (although we will consider all candidates who have relevant experience)
• Strong technical knowledge
• Previous experience of managing your own caseload, preferably for clients in the healthcare sector
• Attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task, work to strict deadlines and targets
• Excellent team work skills
• Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills
• Flexible approach
• Ideally previous experience of mentoring / supervisingjunior fee-earners