Job Description

Employment Solicitor (5-7 years PQE)

Location: Manchester

Salary: £70,000 to £90,000

Experience: 5 to 7 years PQE

Our client is looking to recruit an experienced Employment Solicitor (5 to 7 years PQE) to join a growing Employment team in Manchester.

This is a role for someone who enjoys pragmatic, commercial advice and wants a genuine mix of contentious and non-contentious work, including senior advisory mandates and high-value tribunal litigation.

The Work

You can expect a varied caseload, including:

• High-value tribunal claims, including whistleblowing, discrimination and unfair dismissal

• Senior executive appointments and exits, settlement agreements and restrictive covenants

• Restructures, redundancies and TUPE

• Urgent injunction and confidential information matters

• Day-to-day advisory work for HR leaders and boards, including through a retained client offering

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing employment matters end-to-end across contentious and non-contentious streams

• Acting as a strategic adviser to HR leaders and boards, delivering practical, solutions-led advice

• Mentoring and supervising junior colleagues and contributing to know-how, training and client updates

• Supporting business development activity, including thought leadership and events

What We’re Looking For

• Qualified solicitor with 5 to 7 years PQE in employment law

• Strong experience managing your own caseload and drafting

• Confident supervising and delegating within a busy team

• Clear, commercial communication style and a client-focused approach

Desirable:

• Advocacy experience

What’s On Offer

• Salary of £70,000 to £90,000 (dependent on experience)

• Hybrid working and dress for your day policy

• Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays

• Option to buy up to 5 additional days’ annual leave via salary sacrifice

• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution

• Death in service life assurance (3 times salary)

• Employee Assistance Programme with counselling support

• Employee healthcare cash plan (salary sacrifice option)

• Flu vaccination voucher

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 12 months’ service

• Discounted wills and conveyancing services after 12 months’ service

• Annual travel pass loan

• Monthly staff lottery

• Birthday holiday (one paid day within two weeks of your birthday)

• In-depth induction plan and training workshops

• Access to online legal library resources

• Career development loans (grant support) after two years’ service

• Volunteering and community engagement opportunities

• Office-based gym membership

• Social events

Working Arrangements

• Full-time, permanent

• Manchester

• Hybrid working

Next Steps

Apply online or send your CV to  lee.hawthorne-finch@h-fts.com  or call 0333 996 2882 for more information.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We will always obtain your express permission before sharing your details with our client.