Associate - Employment (Healthcare)

We are looking for a talented associate to join our growing healthcare employment practice, working alongside senior and junior lawyers to advise clients across a broad range of employment matters, with a strong focus on Employment Tribunal litigation.

The Role

You will handle predominantly contentious employment work, including:

• Preparing and managing Employment Tribunal cases - Claims/Responses, List of Issues, Witness Statements, Skeleton Arguments and settlement approval applications
• Advocacy at Case Management and Preliminary Hearings
• Drafting correspondence with Tribunals, opposing solicitors, ACAS and clients
• Advising on contracts, policies, disciplinary and grievance procedures, redundancy, and family-friendly rights
• Supporting corporate transactions, including TUPE advice, due diligence and indemnity review

About You

• Experience in contentious and non-contentious employment law
• Strong attention to detail with commercial awareness and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Able to deliver clear, practical advice and build strong client relationships
• Up to date with legal developments, including relevant law reports and journals

If you are ambitious, client-focused and ready to make your mark in a specialist healthcare employment team, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

We offer a hybrid working model to help you balance your professional and personal commitments, and our comprehensive benefits package includes private medical insurance, pension contributions, an employee assistance programme, and a range of wellbeing initiatives. Enhanced parental leave is also available, reflecting our commitment to supporting you through every stage of your career and life.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we're open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.

We're a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

Please take a look at the full job description and if the role is of interest, and suits your specific skill set, then please apply. Or for more information, please contact .