WorkNest Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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WorkNest is part of the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Group, backed by Inflexion, a leading mid-market private equity firm. Our growth continues with our recent expansion into cyber security through the acquisitions of Pentest and Bulletproof. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Employment Solicitor/Head of Team to join our Legal team.
Your role involves delivering high-quality, practical, and efficient advice to WorkNest’s clients. You’ll lead a team of advisers and manage a portfolio of LME and Mid-Market clients, ensuring they receive outstanding support. By providing expert guidance, you’ll help WorkNest maintain its reputation for offering the UK’s best fixed-fee employment law and employee relations advisory service. As a key member of the Senior Management Team, you’ll play a vital role in driving the department’s success and achieving key objectives.
What We Offer
* Opportunities for professional growth and development
* A supportive and inclusive work culture
What We’re Looking For
The successful candidate will provide high-quality, legally compliant advice and documentation to clients, ensuring WorkNest delivers the best fixed-fee legal and ER advisory service in the UK. Responsibilities include offering timely, practical, and commercially sound advice, overseeing the quality of work produced by advisers, managing and supporting your team, and taking the lead on large client accounts. You will investigate client complaints, liaise with employee representatives, and support clients in achieving their business goals while ensuring legal compliance. Your work may also involve litigation, training, consultancy, and participation in marketing and business development initiatives, including out-of-hours advice as needed.
Managing a dedicated portfolio of clients, you’ll maintain regular communication with key stakeholders, set clear expectations, and identify opportunities to enhance WorkNest’s services. You’ll support the commercial team with proposals and prospect meetings, contribute to process improvements, and promote WorkNest initiatives. Ensuring compliance with company procedures, recording time accurately, and delivering high-standard work within deadlines will be essential. You’ll focus on personal and team development, maintaining expertise in employment law, identifying training needs, and contributing to continuous improvement within the team. Throughout all aspects of your role, you’ll uphold WorkNest’s values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence, fostering a supportive and high-performing environment.
Our Story
WorkNest provides Employment Law, HR, Compliance, and Health and Safety support services, combining pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced significant growth over the past 24 months, driven by acquisitions of leading business services groups, bringing together top practitioners in people management, health, safety, wellbeing, employment law, professional training, and business technology. We are proud to offer a broad range of services to help protect and support organizations of all sizes.
We are committed to our core values: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Inclusion.
Up for the challenge?
If you share our values, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to submit your application, including a CV and cover letter outlining how you meet the person specification.
WorkNest is dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and ensuring fair treatment for all applicants, colleagues, and clients. We regularly review our policies to promote diversity and equality of opportunity. Please contact our Talent and Recruitment team if adjustments are needed to support your application.
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Closing date: 10th May 2025. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and the role may close early, so we encourage prompt applications.
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