Employment Associate/Senior Associate

Sellick Partnership are excited to be working with a national Chambers and Legal 500 ranked firm in Manchester City Centre who are looking for an Employment Associate/Senior Associate to join their team.

This is an exciting time to join one of the leading employment teams in the North as they look to expand.

You can expect to be fully involved in representing a great client base, from SMEs to PLCs, across a range of sectors including retail, sport, manufacturing, financial services, industrial services and healthcare.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparing for employment tribunal cases, including preparation of Claim/Response, Employment Tribunal Applications etc
• Advocacy in employment tribunals
• Providing day to day support to HR teams as an integral member of the client's service delivery team
• HR project work on restructurings, redundancies and TUPE
• Drafting correspondence to the Employment Tribunal, opposing Solicitors, witnesses, ACAS, client advice.
• General advice - e.g. conduct of disciplinary investigations; grievance procedures; redundancy programmes; general queries about flexible working, maternity rights, paternity rights, etc.
• Corporate support

The successful candidate will be:

• Experience in contentious and non-contentious work
• Be attentive to detail
• Have a willingness to accept new challenges
• Commercial awareness
• first class academic and excellent training record
• enthusiasm
• an eagerness to develop and grow the business
• a strong team work ethic
• outgoing disposition and "can do" attitude
• drive, commitment and self-motivation

Employee Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Generous Annual Leave
• Company pension scheme
• Private medical care

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please contact Aimee Mann at Sellick Partnership.

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