Associate
Role Overview
Join HCR's growing HR Consultancy practice, working with employment law and immigration colleagues on strategic HR project work.
The role applies legal expertise to diagnose workplace issues and implement solutions as a trusted client partner; it is not a traditional fee-earning legal role.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Join HCR's growing HR Consultancy practice, working with employment law and immigration colleagues on strategic HR project work.
The role applies legal expertise to diagnose workplace issues and implement solutions as a trusted client partner; it is not a traditional fee-earning legal role.
Client and project work
- Work directly with clients through project assignments and secondments, including implementing HR projects within client HR functions.
- Advise on employee relations and contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
- Lead workplace investigations and mediation, including complex, regulatory and sensitive matters.
- Draft and review employment contracts, policies, handbooks and HR documentation.
- Support restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers and organisational change.
- Advise on disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence management processes.
- Deliver client training, workshops and employment law updates.
- Contribute to internal and external business development for the HR Consultancy team.
Candidate requirements
- Qualified solicitor or CILEX lawyer.
- Strong employment law experience from private practice or an in-house environment.
- Experience working closely with HR teams, supporting HR projects and fractional HR duties.
- Confident advising on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
- Strong drafting, attention to detail and communication of complex legal issues.
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Flexible approach and willingness to travel to client sites.
- Commercial awareness and interest in people management through project work.
Team and employer
The HR Consultancy team provides practical, commercially focused support across the employee lifecycle and works alongside employment lawyers and HR consultants.
HCR is a UK law firm with offices in England and Wales.
Benefits
- Benefits include income protection, private medical insurance, bonus scheme, pension, 28 days' annual leave plus public holidays, life assurance and other wellbeing and travel schemes.
- International secondments are available for 0–5 PQE.
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