Why join us

WorkNest is part of the Governance, Risk, and Compliance Group, backed by Inflexion, a leading mid-market private equity firm. Our growth continues with our recent expansion into cyber security through the acquisitions of Pentest and Bulletproof. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Employment Solicitor/Head of Team to join our Legal team. Your role is all about delivering high-quality, practical, and efficient advice to WorkNest’s clients. You’ll do this by leading a team of advisers and personally managing a portfolio of LME and Mid-Market clients, ensuring they receive outstanding support. By providing expert guidance, you’ll help WorkNest continue to offer the UK’s best fixed-fee employment law and employee relations advisory service. As a key member of the Senior Management Team, you’ll play a vital role in driving the department’s success and achieving its key objectives.

What We Offer

• Salary: £61,000 - £70,000 per annum depending on experience

• Great Benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth and development

• A supportive and inclusive work culture

What we’re looking for

Your role is to provide high-quality, legally compliant advice and documentation to clients, ensuring WorkNest delivers the best fixed-fee legal and ER advisory service in the UK. This includes offering timely, practical, and commercially sound advice while maintaining professional standards. You’ll oversee the quality of work produced by advisers, manage and support your team to foster an efficient and collaborative work environment, and take the lead on large client accounts. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for investigating client complaints, liaising with employee representatives, and supporting clients in achieving their business goals while ensuring legal compliance. Your work may also involve litigation, training, consultancy, and participation in marketing and business development initiatives, including out-of-hours advice as required.

In managing a dedicated portfolio of clients, you’ll maintain regular communication with key stakeholders, set clear expectations, and identify opportunities to enhance WorkNest’s service offerings. Supporting the commercial team with proposals and prospect meetings, you’ll also contribute to process improvements and business growth by promoting WorkNest initiatives and identifying potential upselling opportunities. Ensuring compliance with company procedures, recording time accurately, and delivering work to high standards within agreed timeframes will be key. You’ll focus on personal and team development, maintaining expertise in employment law, identifying training needs, and contributing to continuous improvement efforts within the team. Throughout all aspects of your role, you’ll uphold WorkNest’s culture of integrity, collaboration, and excellence, fostering a supportive and high-performing environment that aligns with the company’s values.

Our Story

WorkNest is a powerhouse of Employment Law, HR, Compliance and Health and Safety support services, weaving pragmatic advice with powerful technology platforms. We have experienced exceptional growth over the last 24 months, fueled by the acquisition of several leading business services groups, which has bought together the most gifted practitioners in people management, health, safety and wellbeing, employment law, professional training, and business technology. We are proud to offer a broader range of services to help protect and nurture organisations of every size.

We are committed to delivering on our four core values that we believe all our colleagues should align with: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion.

Up for the challenge?

If you share our values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Inclusion, please use the purple ‘apply now’ button to begin your application. You’ll be asked to submit a CV and covering letter outlining how you fulfil the person specification for this post.

WorkNest is committed to creating a culture of Inclusion and ensuring that everyone – job applicants, clients, colleagues, and anyone else we deal with – is treated fairly and with respect. We continuously review our policies and processes to support our aim to create a diverse team, however, please speak to our Talent and Recruitment specialist if there are any adjustments, we need to make in order to ensure, a genuine equality of opportunity.

See why WorkNest is a great place to work - Take a look at our WorkNest Culture video: https://worknest.wistia.com/medias/tg8eo5hyce

Closing date: 25th April 2025. Please note: Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. We may look to close the advert early, so please don't delay in submitting an application.