Employment Professional Support Lawyer
Birmingham – £70,000 - £80,000
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within a highly successful and growing employment law offering, supporting lawyers and clients through knowledge management, training, legal updates and innovation initiatives.The role sits closely alongside the firm’s flagship HR advisory service, delivering fixed-fee employment and HR support to a broad client base across sectors including manufacturing, retail, utilities, professional services, hospitality and education.
The Opportunity
This position is ideal for an experienced Employment Lawyer who enjoys technical legal work, training, drafting and staying at the forefront of employment law developments.
You will work collaboratively with lawyers across the team to create practical resources, maintain know-how systems and help drive innovation and efficiency across the employment practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Updating employment law resources and online client materials to reflect legal developments
- Maintaining and developing employment precedents, templates and document libraries
- Drafting guidance notes, checklists and best practice materials for internal and external use
- Developing and delivering client-facing tools, webinars and training programmes
- Monitoring employment law updates, case law and legislative changes
- Supporting lawyers with technical legal queries and knowledge sharing
- Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, innovation and client service delivery
- Supporting product development and legal technology initiatives
- Delivering training to colleagues and clients
- Supporting on wider projects and limited fee-earning work where appropriate
- Identifying opportunities to provide additional services and training to existing clients
- Proven experience as an Employment Lawyer with strong technical employment law knowledge
- Excellent drafting, research and communication skills
- Experience presenting, training or delivering legal updates
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- A commercial and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- An interest in legal innovation, knowledge management and client service improvement
- A proactive and entrepreneurial mindset
- A varied and intellectually engaging role beyond traditional fee-earning
- Exposure to high-profile employer clients across multiple sectors
- A collaborative and supportive working environment
- Flexible and agile working arrangements
- Opportunities to influence innovation and future service delivery
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
- Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities
Huw Flanagan-Roberts is a Recruitment Consultant at Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment, having joined the team under a year ago. With a background in sales management and a design degree, Huw has a unique combination of skills that he uses to build strong relationships with clients and candidates in the legal sector. Inspired by his personal connection to law through his marriage to a corporate lawyer, he is comfortable navigating legal terminology and helping candidates and clients in their career journeys. Outside of work, Huw grew up in Wales and speaks Welsh almost fluently, a skill he enjoys using when visiting his homeland.
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Job Spec:
- Area of Law: Employment Law
- Type: Solicitor / FILEX
- Salary: £70,000 - £80,000
- Term: Permanent
- Location: Birmingham
- Reference: 1316790
