Employment Lawyer

Lloyds Banking Group; Halifax; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services institution is seeking a legal professional with at least 5 years' experience to manage employment legal risks and provide strategic advice across the Group. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of UK employment law and a proactive relationship-building approach. This role offers attractive benefits including a generous pension contribution and annual performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Well-being initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a leading private practice firm and ideally in an in-house legal team.
• Knowledge of employment litigation.
• Desire to learn about the financial services sector.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage key employment legal risks.
• Provide strategic employment law advice.
• Advise on complex disciplinaries and grievances.

Skills

Legal knowledge and expertise

Understanding of UK employment law

Commercial awareness

Proactive relationship building

Growth mindset

Education

Legally qualified with 5+ years' PQE

Job description

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and manage key employment legal risks, providing pragmatic, solution‑focused advice to support the business.
• Rapidly switch between different issues and priorities while handling your own workload across the Group.
• Contribute strategic employment law advice across the Group on a broad range of matters, including discrimination, whistleblowing, TUPE, redundancies and settlement agreements.
• Advise on complex disciplinaries, grievances, performance and sickness absence cases.
• Provide oversight and support for business areas with outsourced employment litigation cases.
• Advise on changes in legislation and the impact on the Group's policies and processes.
• Manage external legal counsel and ensure cost‑effective delivery of legal services, including through the use of technology.
• Support the senior lawyers in the team and the Head of HR Legal to ensure appropriate cover according to team and business needs.
• Keep abreast of employment law developments, share knowledge across the team and continually develop your skills.
• Support the team's initiative to provide training to the People & Places Function on relevant legal topics.
• Support the 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.

Qualifications

• Legally qualified with at least 5+ years' PQE or equivalent experience, having spent time in a leading private practice firm and ideally time in an established in‑house legal team.
• Good knowledge and understanding of UK employment law and experience of advising on a broad range of contentious and non‑contentious employment law matters throughout the employment lifecycle.
• Particular experience in employment litigation.
• Strong commercial awareness, a focus on providing practical and solution‑oriented advice and an ability to build deep customer relationships with a customer‑focused approach.
• A growth mindset, curious to learn and develop yourself to acquire the skills of the future.
• A desire to be an engaged and proactive member of the Legal & Secretariat community, to get involved in opportunities outside of the day job and to develop your internal personal profile and network.
• Knowledge of the financial services sector and its regulatory environment or a desire to learn about it.

Benefits

• 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 well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies

About the Company

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. We will only ever ask for confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We always explain what we need and why, and any request comes from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We are committed to creating a values‑led culture and building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants 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 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 also provide a wide‑range benefits package.