Employment Solicitor

If you're an Employment Law Solicitor looking to further your career and passionate about building strong relationships and guiding others through the world of employment law, we’d love to hear from you.

Why join us

WorkNest, part of Axiom GRC’s broader Governance, Risk and Compliance division, provides expert support across Employment Law, HR, Compliance, Health & Safety, Cybersecurity, and ISO services. Powered by advanced technology, we deliver fixed-fee, pragmatic advice that solves real business challenges.

Our growth has been exceptional, driven by both strong organic performance and strategic acquisitions, including Bulletproof, Pentest People, IMSM, and Wirehouse, enabling us to expand into global markets. Today, Axiom GRC’s 12,000 professionals support over 40,000 organisations worldwide. As part of our growth, we’re recruiting for an experienced Employment Law or Employee Relations Professional to join our team.

Your role will be to provide brilliant service to a portfolio of own clients or as part of an advisory or pyramid team.

What We Offer

• Salary: Up to £49,000 per annum depending on experience
• Great Benefits
• Growth and progression via our Legal Academy
• Regular employment law updates from our PSLs
• Sophisticated case management system
• A supportive and inclusive work culture
• Remote/Hybrid/ Office based working according to preference
• Work/Life Balance

What you’ll be doing

WorkNest strive to provide the best value, fixed fee employment law & employee relations advisory service in the UK. Supported by cutting edge technology, we provide genuinely commercial and pragmatic advice focused on finding solutions for our clients EL/ER problems. As our Employment Law Advisor, you’ll play a fundamental role in the successful delivery of our business objectives. As part of the wider legal team, you will work within a smaller team of advisers with your own portfolio of clients.

You'll cultivate strong client relationships through offering top-tier, legally sound advice, positioning yourself as their go-to source for employment law matters. Your role will advising your clients on a variety of legal areas such as absence management, disciplinary and grievance issues, discrimination, terms and conditions of employment, redundancies, TUPE and drafting settlement agreements. You will opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills through exposure to a wide variety of employment issues, with the support of more senior professionals.

About you

This role would suit a qualified legal professional with a minimum of 2 years’ experience as a trainee/paralegal. Candidates with more than 2 years’ experience delivering EL & ER advice in other legal or HR settings may also be considered.

For this role you will need a strong grasp of current employment law, demonstrating proficiency in providing advice in its fundamental aspects. While still enhancing your expertise, you should be adept at operating within a predominantly fixed-fee framework and be capable of efficiently managing priorities and meeting deadlines. You will have a clear understanding of business dynamics, maintain high standards of client support, and show tangible proof of achieving your business goals and ensuring client satisfaction.

At WorkNest 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: 28th July 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.