Associate - Employment

Job role: Associate

Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2025 for the second year running. We offer hybrid working and are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team: Employment Commercial

Location: Leeds

Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here Are Some Examples Of What We Offer

• Annual leave starting at 25 days
• Annual bonus scheme
• Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
• Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
• 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
• Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
• Annual fitness allowance
• Flexible pension scheme
• ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
• Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
• Medicash

EAP with access to counselling

Enhanced family leave policies

Access to confidential, expert support via Fertifa in relation to reproductive health and wellbeing

Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year via Bright Horizons

Life assurance

Group income protection

Annual travel season ticket loan

Hybrid working and dress for your day policy

Bespoke training and development opportunities

Financial contribution towards home working equipment

Role Overview

We are looking for a technically sound employment lawyer with demonstrable experience across a full range of employment matters including contentious, corporate support, advisory and investigations, with appropriate supervision.

You will be given plenty of client responsibility and exposure but at the same time be part of a supportive team environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice to a broad range of clients, from company owners and managers, HR professionals and in-house lawyers, to public and private sector organisations, as well as senior employees and executives, on a range of employment matters.

Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and work under pressure.

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

The ability to work as part of a team and independently.

Adherence to guidelines and procedures.

Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours, if required.

If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.

Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.