Employment Solicitor

NHS Jobs; Aylesbury; Presencial; GBP 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

NHS Jobs is seeking an experienced Employment Law Adviser to support the Trust's Employee Relations and Medical Workforce Teams with timely, high-quality employment law guidance. You will advise on contentious and non-contentious issues, assist with disciplinary hearings, and help draft outcome decisions.

The role involves managing day-to-day casework, developing policies, delivering seminars, training HR staff on legal and risk management matters, and coordinating with external counsel while

Responsabilidades

• 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.
• 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.
• To advise Disciplinary Hearing panel members in relation to complex disciplinary hearings as well as supporting the drafting of outcome decisions.
• To support the Trust in the development and execution of general Settlement Agreements.
• To provide day to day management of an employment law casework on behalf the Trust.
• To support the Trust with input into HR policy providing training as appropriate.
• To establish and maintain good relationships with the Employee Relations and Medical HR Teams, managers, clinicians and external contacts.
• To provide seminars and deliver training to the HR Teams and other NHS staff in the Trust legal, employment and risk management issues.
• To liaise with the ER Lead for support as required.
• To undertake regular reviews of all open casework to ensure case information is accurate and up to date.
• To maintain a complete audit trail of work product and documentation by filing and indexing documents.
• 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).
• 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.
• To maintain oversight of external legal spend in conjunction with the Chief People Officer.
• To attend regular in-house team meetings to promote sharing of information.
• To comply with the SRA requirements in relation to Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

Descripción del empleo

Role responsibilities

1. 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. 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. 3. To advise Disciplinary Hearing panel members in relation to complex disciplinary hearings as well as supporting the drafting of outcome decisions.
4. 4. To support the Trust in the development and execution of general Settlement Agreements.
5. 5. To provide day to day management of an employment law casework on behalf the Trust.
6. 6. To support the Trust with input into HR policy providing training as appropriate.
7. 7. To establish and maintain good relationships with the Employee Relations and Medical HR Teams, managers, clinicians and external contacts.
8. 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. 9. To liaise with the ER Lead for support as required.
10. 10. To undertake regular reviews of all open casework to ensure case information is accurate and up to date.
11. 11. To maintain a complete audit trail of work product and documentation by filing and indexing documents.
12. 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. 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. 14. To maintain oversight of external legal spend in conjunction with the Chief People Officer.
15. 15. To attend regular in-house team meetings to promote sharing of information.

Personal Development

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