Employment Solicitor (1-4 PQE) - Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds or London

Our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team continues to be a market leader, going from strength to strength across a range of sectors. Our year on year growth means that we work with a fantastic portfolio of clients, many of which are household names.

The team operates on a truly national basis, providing our lawyers with the opportunity to work with a variety of colleagues and clients. Acting mainly for employers, our roster of clients includes national and multi-national organisations, and we support them to improve their employment practices and manage workforce issues, as well as defending employment claims and seeking to mitigate risks for clients.

Bevan Brittan has strong recognition in the independent legal directories - Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. In both guides we are consistently ranked in the top tier for our practices across the UK, with multiple individuals recognised as leading lawyers.

The team has a down-to-earth and human touch to their work. They always make us feel supported and that our work matters to them - Legal 500, 2025

The role

We are looking for a Solicitor (1-4 PQE) to join our team, ideally but not essentially with health and care sector advisory experience and capability to manage complex litigation as part of a team. This role can be based from any one of our offices (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds or London), we operate a very flexible hybrid working model.

As a member of the national employment healthcare practice the primary focus of your role will be supporting the healthcare partner leads, across our substantial health and care practice, including the NHS, as well as independent healthcare organisations and operators within care and the voluntary sector. As part of this, you would also work with other members of the team, as well as part of multi-disciplinary teams across the firm, providing employment support on a variety of transactions and deals.

Bevan Brittan is proud of its full service offering and embedded multi-disciplinary team approach to supporting our clients. Building relationships, both externally with our clients and across our internal teams, is key. The depth and breadth of the markets in which we operate will provide the opportunity and flexibility to work on novel and complex employment law issues across both contentious and non-contentious matters.

With your skill and expertise, it is envisaged that you would:

• Manage your own caseload across both contentious and non-contentious work areas
• Work with and support a number of our partner leads and colleagues across all four of our offices
• Support on training and client relationship management

You would be advising on employee relations matters including internal disciplinary/grievance/capability processes, reviewing policies and procedures and contracts, advising on equalities obligations, conduct of and/or support on Employment Tribunals, advising on TUPE processes including inputting into drafting of commercial agreements as well as delivering training on a broad range of employment issues and supporting business development.

With approximately 100 new litigation instructions every year, our Employment team's litigation experience is second to none. Whether in the Tribunal, the EAT, the Court of Appeal or the High Court you will have the chance to be involved in ground-breaking employment litigation.

What we are looking for from you

The successful candidate will be involved in providing sound, commercial employment advice and would have the following skill set/experience:

• A broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment experience, ideally gained within the health and care sector
• Case management of complex ET claims
• Advising on employee relations issues including settlement negotiations
• Reviewing/drafting policies
• Contractual and policy advice
• Senior exits
• Advising on restructures/redundancy processes and TUPE issues
• Undertaking transactional due diligence, often as part of a wider corporate or commercial transaction
• Some advocacy experience desirable but not essential
• Good client management skills and an interest in business development

We offer a structured career pathway to meet both your and our needs.

Make a Real Impact

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams work together to support almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we’re part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2023/24 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for an eleventh consecutive year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

As a firm we embrace our differences, we act responsibly, now and for the future and we support you to be your best through our hybrid working model and professional development opportunities.

Looking to the future, we’re targeting ambitious growth and success. And we’re looking for the best people to be part of it.