Employment Solicitor

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; Presencial; GBP 58.000 - 65.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Learning and development opportunities

NHS pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Descripción de la vacante

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust seeks an Employment Solicitor to provide expert employment law advice across a diverse workforce, partnering with HR, Medical Workforce Teams and senior leaders to manage litigation and employee relations in a fair, inclusive workplace.

Role includes advising on risk, drafting settlements, and overseeing tribunal proceedings while supporting HR policy development and colleagues across NHS services. Travel to other sites may be required.

Formación

• Advocacy at Employment Tribunal experience.
• Ability to provide high-quality employment law advice.
• Experience drafting advice and client-facing documents.

Responsabilidades

• Provide high-quality employment law advice to the Trust and HR/Medical Workforce.
• Manage settlement agreements and pre-litigation processes.
• Lead Employment Tribunal cases and represent the Trust.
• Liaise with external employment law teams and Barristers as needed.

Conocimientos

Advocacy

Stakeholder engagement

Dispute resolution

Presentations

Educación

Law degree

LPC or equivalent

Solicitor qualification

Descripción del empleo

Are you an employment law specialist looking for a role where your expertise makes a real difference to the people behind patient care? Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an Employment Solicitor to provide expert legal advice across a diverse and complex workforce environment. Working closely with HR, medical workforce teams and senior leaders, you will play a pivotal role in managing employment litigation, supporting challenging employee relations matters, and helping the Trust navigate legal risk while fostering a fair, inclusive and high-performing workplace.

Main duties of the job

Key duties include providing employment advice and support during internal disputes, investigations and processes prior to litigation and defending Employment Tribunal Claims. The Employment Solicitor will advise upon and manage exposure to legal risk.

About us

Why colleagues think we are"a great place to work!"?

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

Role responsibilitiesAll key duties and responsibilities managed with file reviews and supervision of complex matters as required.

1. To provide high-quality, timely advice to the Trust (Employee Relations and Medical Workforce Teams) and support the implementation employment relations best practice and to comply with current employment law requirements.

2. To provide general advice, as required, to the Trust on contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. Such advice may be requested on an urgent basis and can involve liaising direct with workforce, managers, clinical staff, health care professionals and others.

3. To advise Disciplinary Hearing panel members in relation to complex disciplinary hearings as well as supporting the drafting of outcome decisions.

4. To support the Trust in the development and execution of general Settlement Agreements.

5. To provide day to day management of an employment law casework on behalf the Trust.

6. To support the Trust with input into HR policy providing training as appropriate.

7. To establish and maintain good relationships with the Employee Relations and Medical HR Teams, managers, clinicians and external contacts.

8. To provide seminars and deliver training to the HR Teams and other NHS staff in the Trust legal, employment and risk management issues.

9. To liaise with the ER Lead for support as required.

10. To undertake regular reviews of all open casework to ensure case information is accurate and up to date.

11. To maintain a complete audit trail of work product and documentation by filing and indexing documents.

12. To manage Employment Tribunal cases (excluding complex cases) and to represent the Trust at Employment Tribunal. (This will include communicating potentially highly contentious and sensitive information in a hostile/antagonistic atmosphere e.g. taking evidence from witnesses, cross examining witnesses and presenting evidence/submissions).

13. To liaise with third parties such as the Trusts external employment law team when expert advice is necessary or to instruct a Barrister for highly complex ET cases.

14. To maintain oversight of external legal spend in conjunction with the Chief People Officer.

15. To attend regular in-house team meetings to promote sharing of information.

Personal Development

1. To comply with the SRA requirements in relation to Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

Education

• Law Degree & LPC (or equivalent)
• Registration as a Solicitor with the Solicitors Regulatory Authority or registration with CILEX Regulation as a Legal Executive

Experience

• Advocacy at an Employment Tribunal
• Delivering presentations to non-legal staff
• Experience in drafting documents and advice to "customers"

Special Circumstances

• Able to travel to undertake duties of the post including travelling to other sites and attending Employment Tribunal locations

Skills

• Ability to communicate in all formats, with all staff, and key stakeholders
• Ability to interpret legislation and adapt into local policy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£57,528 to £64,750 a yearper annum pro rata