Employment Lawyer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group recrute un avocat en emploi pour rejoindre son équipe juridique. Le candidat idéal aura plus de 7 ans d'expérience en droit du travail, ainsi qu'une forte connexion avec les clients. Rejoignez une équipe axée sur la culture et l'inclusion qui fait une différence.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wide-ranging benefits package

Qualifications

• Expérience en droit du travail contentieux et non-contentieux.
• Capacité à construire des relations avec les clients.
• Esprit de croissance, curieux d'apprendre.

Responsibilities

• Gérer les risques juridiques liés à l'emploi pour LBG.
• Supporter les activités stratégiques de la fonction juridique.
• Participer à la formation sur des sujets juridiques.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Customer relationship building

Problem-solving

Education

Legally qualified with 7+ years' PQE

Job description

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our HR Legal team within Group Legal.

As an Employment Lawyer, you’ll support the People and Places function and our wider LBG businesses, providing legal advice on a very broad range of employment issues and supporting those who support our customers.

If you would like to be part of a purpose driven, customer focused, agile and friendly team, please read on.

Day to day you’ll:

Be required to proactively identify and manage key employment legal risks and their implications for LBG so that you can support the business with pragmatic, solution focused advice;

Have an ability to rapidly switch between different issues and priorities;

Have the autonomy to handle your own workload and you’ll also work across teams;

Support the senior lawyers in the team and the Head of HR Legal to ensure appropriate cover according to team and business needs;

Share knowledge across the team and continually develop your skills; and

Support the team’s initiative to provide training to the People team on relevant legal topics.

More broadly, you’ll:

Support strategic activities of the Legal & Secretariat Function which align to LBG's purpose, strategy and culture.

Demonstrate our values and behaviours to support our culture; and

Build and maintain a strong internal network and key customer and colleague connections.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need:

Legally qualified with 7+ years' PQE and skills in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, gained, ideally, in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm

Someone with strong commercial awareness and an ability to build deep customer relationships by having a customer focussed approach

Someone with a growth mindset, curious to learn and develop yourself to acquire the skills of the future; and

Wanting to develop your internal personal profile and network, including within Legal & Secretariat and with business customers

About working for us:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

An annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

About the company

For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper.We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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