Team: Employment
Reporting to: Jon Taylor
Profile
Benefits
- 26 days holiday
- 5% Employer Pension Contribution
- BUPA Private Health
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Income Protection Scheme
- Death in Service Benefits
- Perkbox / Benefits Hub
- Mobile phone
Candidate Profile
The candidate should be hard-working, out-going and a good team player. Experience of working in a city or medium/large provincial practice is desirable. They should have a keen interest in employment law and be able to discuss knowledgeably topical employment law issues.
Knowledge of:
- Advising on day-to-day HR and employment law issues
- Drafting employment contracts, policies, and staff handbooks
- Handling and advising Settlement Agreements, Redundancy Matters, and Employment Tribunal claims
- Supporting corporate transactions with employment law input (TUPE, due diligence, etc.)
- Assisting with business development, client training sessions, and marketing initiatives
- Exposure to both claimant and respondent employment work
Key Skills:
- Sound legal knowledge, drafting and advisory skills
- Experience of undertaking advocacy in court/chambers/tribunal setting
- Experience of presenting to an audience
- Commercial, practical and financial awareness
- Confidence and ability to communicate at senior levels
- Excellent interpersonal and marketing skills with the ability to develop contacts for the team and the firm
- Problem solving
- Strong ambition for career development
- Team player able to fit into a friendly, busy team
- Negotiation skills
- Organisational ability
- Ability to be responsible for own caseload (under supervision where relevant)
Equal Opportunities:
The firm is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to the implementation and maintenance of employment and recruitment practices which will ensure that no potential or current employee or trainee, is treated less favourably on the grounds of age, disability, gender, marital status, race, nationality, colour pregnancy, maternity or any other aspects unrelated to their current and potential skills, aptitudes and abilities.
Our Agency Contact Policy
At EMW, we value building strong and collaborative relationships when it comes to recruitment. To keep things simple and clear, we work exclusively with a trusted selection of recruitment agencies that are part of our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) and with whom we have agreed terms of business.
However, if you’re an agency either outside of our PSL or part of our PSL, we kindly ask you not to send speculative CVs or candidate details. Any such submissions, whether sent directly to a member of our team or otherwise, will not be considered as forming any kind of agreement between EMW Law LLP and your agency.
Just to be transparent, if candidate details are submitted to us speculatively by an agency, we reserve the right to get in touch with the candidate directly. In such cases, EMW isn’t responsible for any fees, charges, or other payments to your agency.
Additionally, submitting a candidate’s CV speculatively doesn’t grant any right of representation. If we receive the same candidate’s details from one of our trusted PSL agencies, we will treat that agency as the valid representative under our agreed terms.
Lastly, all candidate CVs should be sent to the HR team and not directly to any of our other team members. If this process isn’t followed, then no candidate will be treated as having been submitted for an active vacancy and will not be considered as forming any kind of agreement between EMW Law LLP and your agency so no fees, charges or any other payments to your agency will be due.
We appreciate your understanding and hope this helps clarify how we work with agencies.