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    Employment Risk Lawyer - Leeds, United Kingdom - NHS England

    NHS England
    NHS England Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
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    Job summary

    The Employment Risk Domain is a dynamic, growing and supportive team of in-house lawyers. Together, we use our skills, knowledge and experience to ensure that NHS England receives professional and pragmatic employment law advice and support.

    The team's work is impactful, and varied and includes:

  • providing expert employment law advice to support colleagues across the organisation, particularly those in the HR and OD team, to manage employee and employment related risks;
  • managing all external employment law advice and Employment Tribunal support provided to NHS England. This includes commissioning advice from external legal advisors and overseeing outsourced work to ensure that it is carried out in a timely and cost-effective manner, is in line with NHS England's strategic aims and organisational values and meets client requirements; and
  • supporting effective decision making and corporate governance, and all employment related operational activities as needed.

    • All lawyers within the Employment Risk team provide advice, often to senior decision makers, personally and at pace. The team handles a fantastic range of interesting and challenging work in an environment where there is a good balance of autonomy and support. The focus of the team is on building relationships, understanding the organisation and quality of output, rather than time recorded or hours billed, which means there are plenty of opportunities to develop professionally.

    Main duties of the job

    The role of the Employment Risk Lawyer is to ensure NHSE is a legally compliant organisation, in all internal and external undertakings, to advise upon and manage all aspects of legal risk and to make sure NHSE makes the most effective use of its legal powers for the benefit of patients.

    You will advise on employment risk matters personally and at pace, maintaining and improving an agile advice service for the organisation. This frequently means having a fast, solution focus, and able to articulate risk to facilitate informed and efficient decision making.

    You will need significant experience of employment law advisory work, to be highly competent and confident in advising on a wide range of day-to-day HR issues and case work. You will have a high degree of resilience, the ability to deal with ambiguity, and excellent communication skills. You will be able to build good relationships rapidly in order to support good decision making and risk will have experience of working closely and effectively with HR in a range of different contexts. Experience of working with Trade Unions would be beneficial.

    The NHS is committed to building an inclusive personal, fair and diverse health and care system and a workplace where belonging, equity, diversity and inclusion are treasured. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

    About us

    In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service. The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by: Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities. Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential. Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation Delivering value for money. If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit

    NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Our Employment Risk Lawyers play a critical role in ensuring that the organisation receives effective, strategic advice in relation to all of its contentious and non- contentious employment law related matters.

    The role holder will report into the Head of Employment Risk and will work collaboratively with colleagues in the Employment Risk team, the Legal team, the HR and OD team and across NHS Englands various Directorates and Regions.

    This is an exciting, fast paced role so the role holder will need keen prioritisation skills, resilience, the ability to deal with ambiguity and excellent communication skills. They will need to rapidly build and maintain good relationships with colleagues at all levels and provide legally sound, pragmatic, solutions focused advice within the context of NHSEs duties and functions as a public body. The role holder will need to be aware of the highly political and sensitive nature of the work undertaken by the Employment Risk Domain and the wider Legal Team and will need to maintain the highest levels of compassion, discretion and confidentiality.

    In addition to the provision of legal advice the role holder will be involved in a variety of activities to assist with the work of the Employment Risk Domain and the wider Legal Team more generally, including supporting:

  • team operations and complying with key processes and procedures;
  • delivery of all necessary business and reporting returns;
  • organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence in legal practice;
  • implementation of systems to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the Domain and wider team;
  • participating in the provision of training and development; and
  • ensuring best value and managing quality of external support services

    • The NHS is committed to building an inclusive personal, fair and diverse health and care system and a workplace where belonging, equity, diversity and inclusion are treasured. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

    You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

    Salary Progression Applicants will commence at the bottom of Band 8b with a full-time starting salary of £58,972, with a pay step increase after 5 years service. For posts based in Inner London, the above salaries will include the additional supplement of 20% of basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £5,132 per annum and a maximum payment of £7,746 per annum. This is offered in accordance with NHS Terms and Conditions and is based on office location. Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person Person Specification

    Qualifications/ registration

    Essential

  • Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive legally qualified to practice Law in England and Wales

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant post qualification employment law experience, predominantly advisory work (compared with litigation and transactional work)

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience of providing employment legal services to the NHS or other similar public bodies

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant experience of working with HR professionals in the delivery of employment legal services including employee relations

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Experience of working with Trade Unions
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