Trainee Solicitor

Peninsula Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30.000 - 36.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Peninsula Group in the United Kingdom offers a two-year Training Contract across Advisory, Group In-House Legal, Health and Safety and Finance. Trainees rotate through seats and will work towards becoming a Solicitor on the Advisory Solicitors Team.

You will provide legally compliant HR and employment advice to 30,000 clients, log cases, and develop professionally with internal training and updates.

Qualifikationen

• A can-do attitude and willingness to learn.
• Ability to communicate knowledge effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Dynamic and flexible approach.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Aufgaben

• Provide legally compliant and commercial HR and employment advice to clients.
• Rotate through Advisory, In-House Legal, Health & Safety and Finance seats.
• Work on Settlement Agreements, Commercial Queries, Data Protection and TUPE matters.
• Log advice on the bespoke internal system and manage cases to resolution.
• Develop training records and own self development.
• Attend client visits and escalate cases per internal protocols.

Kenntnisse

Can-do attitude

Thirst for knowledge

Communication skills

Fast-paced environment

Flexibility

Pressure handling

Jobbeschreibung

Job Purpose
To provide HR and Employment advice to a wide variety of 30,000 clients of Peninsula Business Services throughout different sectors within the Advice Team across Great Britain.

Job Overview
The 2-year Training Contract will be spent in different areas within the business, including Advisory, Group In-House Legal, Health and Safety and Finance. Through different “seats”, each trainee is likely to be exposed to a number of different areas of law including Employment, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Health & Safety, Commercial and Civil Litigation.

The trainees will spend the majority of their time on the traineeship working in the Advisory Solicitors Team. The role at the end of the traineeship, if successfully completed, will be as Solicitor on the Advisory Solicitors Team.

The role requires you to work in a team providing legally compliant advice to clients in order to support the business and the needs of individual clients whilst highlighting any options that are non-compliant and the risks that these options might present.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

To provide clients with legally compliant and commercial advice to clients predominantly on Settlement Agreements, Commercial Queries, Data Protection, as well as employment law querying including gross misconduct, SOSR, TUPE, grievances alleging discrimination, multiple redundancies and absence management.

Ensure that personal knowledge of HR and Employment Law is continually updated.

Achieve six measured set KPIs to support all clients with quality sound advice in a productive manner within set SLAs in order to provide a first call resolution. This will be predominately call advice and adjusted accordingly by your particular caseload whilst being available for the clients.

To actively own cases to resolution, building rapport and relationships with clients on each interaction.

To log all advice accurately onto the bespoke internal system, taking ownership and responsibility for ongoing cases.

To provide clients with supporting information/documentation to assist them in the advice provided.

Review client documentation and provide advice accordingly taking their internal terms and conditions into account.

Refer to Company internal training and legal updates to ensure that advice provided is compliant with our services.

To undertake and report on client visits as required by the Advice Service Managers.

Follow internal protocols for managing and escalating cases where applicable and ensure full communication and smooth transition when transferring cases to other specialist teams.

Carry out other tasks that are deemed necessary by the Management Team.

To offer the clients options regarding the take up of other products we provide and make such recommendations accordingly.

Ensuring that training records are maintained to reflect the work you have done linked to the skills standard.

Take responsibility for your own self development.

Develop good working practices by managing your time, effort and resources effectively.

What you Bring to the Team

A “can-do” attitude, a thirst for knowledge and the ability to communicate knowledge effectively within the team.

Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

A dynamic and flexible approach, as well as the ability to work under pressure.

Why Join our Team?
This is a really great opportunity to assume significant responsibility from the start of your tenure and get real job satisfaction from problem solving, developing relationships with clients and businesses across the Group. This is a significant opportunity for career development, but whatever your starting point or experience, you are guaranteed to grow and develop your knowledge and abilities and will feel that you are making a real difference in a brand new, commercially focused, service-led law firm.