About The Role
The Role
The purpose of this role is to enhance the Employment team's efficiency and effectiveness by managing and disseminating legal knowledge, ensuring the team remains at the forefront of legal developments. As an Employment Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) at Gateley PLC, you will play a pivotal role in curating and maintaining the department's legal resources, delivering timely updates and training, and supporting client engagement initiatives. Your expertise will be crucial in advising on emerging trends and ensuring the team is well-equipped to provide top-tier legal services.
Reporting to our Head of Employment, this role can be based in our Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester or Leeds office.
Responsibilities include:
- Knowledge Management: Lead in curating and sharing legal knowledge including the delivering of training sessions to the team, developing innovative resources, and supporting the department’s strategic goals. Helping to capture and share knowledge gained in practice within the team.
- Document Review: Maintain the department’s legal knowledge base, including precedent documents, contracts, policies, and guidance.
- Legal Updates: Deliver timely and relevant legal updates, case law summaries, and legislative changes through regular briefings and training. Horizon scanning for future developments including in relation to the forthcoming Employment Rights Bill. Welcoming new starters (including trainees) with induction materials and assisting with onboarding.
- Client Engagement: Support and contribute to marketing material and client-facing Insights via website articles, client guides, podcasts, workshops, seminars and webinars aligned with marketing and business development strategies. Practice development: Work with our wider legal-technology group designing new processes, including adopting technology solutions, to streamline working practices and deliver efficiencies. Contribute towards department specialist product campaigns, liaising with PSLs in other departments where needed.
- Advisory: Answering technical queries from fee-earners looking for solutions to legal problems. Advise on emerging trends and developments within Employment law, ensuring the team remains agile and responsive.
- Collaboration: Collaborating with our Consulting businesses to maximise opportunities for our clients. Contributing to firmwide PSL meetings and assisting with firmwide PSL projects.
The Team
We have a wealth of experience across our national Employment team, advising on the full spectrum of HR issues. We help clients with every aspect of the management of their workforce, adding value to their HR function and helping them achieve consistently better outcomes. We provide pragmatic solutions, not just legal opinions, and can work as part of an HR department, act as an HR consultant or advise senior management directly. Whether our clients are attracting and retaining the best talent, fostering the development of their future workforce, or transforming their teams, we can help to keep risk under control, while coming up with effective commercial solutions that work for our clients’ organisations. We offer support and advice on the full employment lifecycle including recruitment and on-boarding; immigration and mobility; pay – reward and benefits; policies and procedures; developing and training employees; and exit and severances.
We continue to develop and evolve our proposition and are looking for individuals with a 'can do' mentality to join the team.
The Person
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Qualifications: A qualified solicitor with at least 7 years' practical experience in all aspects of Employment Law.
- Technical Skills: Strong technical knowledge and the ability to interpret and explain complex legal issues clearly. Ability to apply legal knowledge in a practical/commercial manner. Good research skills, including experience of using key legal knowledge services such as Practical Law, Westlaw UK and LexisLibrary.
- Experience: Experience in professional support, training, or knowledge management is desirable but not essential.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, and presentation. Exceptional attention to detail and commercial acumen.
- Collaboration: A collaborative mindset with the ability to lead on projects and influence others. A strong team work ethic and drive.
- Tech Proficiency: Proficiency in legal tech, including research tools, Microsoft applications, and knowledge management platforms. Willingness to explore technology solutions to drive efficiencies
About Us
The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.
The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.
Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
