About the role
Permanent
Up to £75,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (2 days per week in the office)
Southampton, Store Support Office
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they'll love. Join us as an Employment Solicitor and you'll be a big part of this.
Role Purpose: To deliver commercially focused, risk-based specialist employment and immigration legal advice to the business, including the management of ET claims and HR Policy.
Key responsibilities
- Providing commercially focused, risk-based employment and immigration legal advice on a variety of matters, to include day to day queries, and advice on implementation of a range of change programmes (TUPE, SOSR, redundancies), and employee contracts
- Ensuring ways of working are in place to minimise the risk of any illegal working
- Managing ET claims and Settlement Agreements, ensuring work is delivered to a high quality, all stakeholders are updated at relevant times and all ET deadlines are complied with
- Liaising, and putting in place relevant ways of working, with external lawyers to ensure they deliver high quality work in accordance with our best practise principles and fee structure
- Keeping up to date with employment law developments with any relevant next steps
- Support building HR and management capability by providing education, training and support on relevant aspects of employment and immigration law
- Managing and developing the Legal Assistant and complying with all apprenticeship requirements
- Introducing and implementing a Policy plan ensuring there is a rhythm and routine in place in terms of reviewing policies ensuring they're relevant, kept up to date with internal and external developments, and legally compliant.
- Work, liaise, communicate and harness relationships with the following: Retail and SSO HR, Store and SSO management teams, Reward, Payroll, Legal Services.
- Make key decisions regarding potential risks and escalate any PR or financial risk accordingly
Required skills & experience
- Fully qualified lawyer with employment law experience (at least 5 years PQE)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clarify complex issues and concepts for non-lawyers
- Ability to work as a team player and to build and manage relationships at all levels
- Shows initiative, commitment and flexibility when faced with obstacles
- Excellent document management, organisational skills and ability to prioritise.
- Strong influencing and coaching skills and motivation to contribute to knowledge sharing across the team
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you'll be valued for who you are.We're committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.
