Employment Lawyer

Job Description

Employment 6+  - Hybrid

Leading regulated utility requires its first employment lawyer. This is a hybrid role with 1/2 days in London or 1 day in London and 1 in Reading or Bournemouth.  You will support regulated and unregulated group companies through the delivery of high quality legal advice on contentious and non-conetntious employment matters, manage a caseload independently and support senior colleagues in employment law matters.

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• With responsibility for both day to day and strategic matters; you will be advising on: disciplinary and grievance matters, dismissals, Trade Union matters, redundancy and reorganization processes, capability processes, performance management, discrimination, whistleblowing, restrictive covenants, settlement negotiations and agreements, ACAS Conciliations, Employment Tribunal proceedings, workplace contracts and policies, and general employee relations matters.

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  Providing prompt, accurate, effective and commercially useful legal advice on all aspects of employment law (both contentious and non-contentious) to minimise financial, reputational and legal risks to SGN.

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  Participating in the development and production of new procedures and standard form precedents to ensure continued compliance and protection for the company.

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  Providing the People Team with important legal updates in employment law from time to time.

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  Ensuring the provision of legal services is in accordance with the company's internal governance, statutory powers and licence obligations.

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  Managing key relationships across the business and further enhancing external legal panel relationships aligned to the company's strategic objectives; and

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  Championing the excellent reputation of the Legal Services Department and striving to continue to improve it.

What you will need

The ideal candidate will have relevant work experience in the following disciplines: 

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  You are a fully qualified solicitor in England, Wales or Scotland

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  You have extensive experience of providing contentious and non-contentious employment law advice to large employer clients across a range of issues and will be used to dealing directly with senior decision makers in the business.

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  Proven technical, negotiation and resolution skills, with the ability to deliver pragmatic commercial solutions to the business on a range of complex employment issues.

If the role is of interest, please contact Brian Littleton at Motus Legal on or at