Description
The BBC's Employment Law team seeks a skilled Senior Employment Lawyer to provide expert UK legal advice on employment law across the BBC. The successful candidate will handle employment litigation cases, advise on grievances and disciplinaries, redundancy, discrimination, and equal pay, whistleblowing, and TUPE. They will work with senior stakeholders, offering strategic advice on complex employment law challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide accurate, timely, and practical expert legal advice on complex areas of UK employment law.
- Analyse, synthesise, and present complex legal matters and risks to key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop and implement strategic legal solutions.
- Advise on a wide range of complex employment issues, including grievances, disciplinaries, contractual disputes, and Employment Tribunal litigation.
- Work unsupervised, making difficult judgements calmly and consistently when stretched.
Requirements:
- A UK-qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate and good knowledge of employment law.
- Substantial experience with a leading law firm and/or specialist in-house employment team.
- Experienced in advising and/or working autonomously on varied, challenging, and high-quality employment legal matters.
- A track record of providing proactive, expert, timely, and authoritative day-to-day employment law legal advice and support.
- Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
Desirable:
- 6 years' Post Qualified Experience.
- Experience in public law and judicial review work.
- Previous experience in the Media industry or in-house.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary package (£87,000 - £97,000pa plus London Weighting).
- Flexible 35-hour working week.
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days.
- Defined pension scheme.
- Discounted dental, health care, and gym.