A fantastic opportunity to take the next step in your career with a Tier 1 Legal 500 Employment Team

Senior Associate / Associate - Employment - Cambridge with hybrid working

Client

A highly successful Employment Team seeing consistent and continuous growth within a full service, top 50 UK, forward thinking law firm

Role

• Working across a number of sectors includingeducation, financial services, construction, transport and private client/agriculture, charities and public sector
• Expertise is sought in:
  • General employment issues ranging from maternity rights to general contractual issues.
  • Drafting service agreements, contracts of employment and staff handbooks
  • Drafting and reviewing employment policies ranging from performance, sickness, and misconduct procedures to maternity and parental leave schemes.
  • Transactional corporate support work
  • Wrongful and unfair dismissal
  • Redundancy and restructuring
  • Transfer of Undertakings
  • Employment litigation in the employment tribunal
  • Discrimination (including sex, race, disability and age)
  • Trade union work for employers.
  • Professional Discipline and conduct, including advising professional conduct/fitness to practice panels.
• You will be expected to play an active role in marketing and practice development as well as providing a prominent level of service to existing clients

You

• 3+ years PQE in Employmentwith an exceptional knowledge of the law
• A motivated initiative-taker
• Able to think commercially and analytically
• Interest in and aptitude for business development and growth opportunities
• A strong drive to produce work/documentation which is consistently of a high standard
• Knowledge of clientele within Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire and the surrounding area and nationally

Benefits include:

• 30 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• Staff Profit Share / Salary sacrifice
• Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Agile Working Policy

For further information and a confidential discussion, please contact sue/peers@erringtonlegal.co.uk

We are an equal opportunities recruiter, committed to ensuring an inclusive and supportive recruitment process. We embrace and promote diversity as we understand the importance and value of this both for us and our clients.