# Employment Lawyer

**Company**: MI5 - The Security Service
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 86,779 - 96,097 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Security

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## Description

As one of our Employment Lawyers, you’ll join a team of specialists working across a diverse portfolio of unique, challenging cases. You’ll provide expert advice on employment and people-related matters, ranging from staff policies and contracts, HR strategy and litigation, through to more sensitive matters such as mitigating risks to national security.

You’ll be a qualified solicitor or barrister, with a minimum of around 2 years’ PQE experience, qualified to practice in England and Wales. Previous employment law experience in either the public or private sector is essential and in-house legal experience is preferred.

In return, you’ll receive a starting salary of £86,779 to £96,097 (depending on experience), plus other benefits including:

- 25 days of annual leave, automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays

- opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme

- a dedicated development budget

- an interest-free season ticket loan

- an excellent pension scheme

- a cycle to work scheme

- facilities such as a gym, restaurant and on-site coffee bars

- paid parental and adoption leave

## Skills

### Required
- employment law
- litigation
- HR strategy
- staff policies
- contracts

### Nice to have
- in-house legal experience

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