Trainee Solicitor

Job Purpose

To provide HR and Employment advice to a wide variety of 30,000 clients of Peninsula Business Services throughout different sectors within the Advice Team across Great Britain.

Job Overview

The 2-year Training Contract will be spent in different areas within the business, including Advisory, Group In-House Legal, Health and Safety and Finance. Through different “seats”, each trainee is likely to be exposed to a number of different areas of law including Employment, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Health & Safety, Commercial and Civil Litigation.

The trainees will spend the majority of their time on the traineeship working in the Advisory Solicitors Team.  The role at the end of the traineeship, if successfully completed, will be as Solicitor on the Advisory Solicitors Team.

The role requires you to work in a team providing legally compliant advice to clients in order to support the business and the needs of individual clients whilst highlighting any options that are non-compliant and the risks that these options might present.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

·         To provide clients with legally compliant and commercial advice to clients predominantly on Settlement Agreements, Commercial Queries, Data Protection, as well as employment law querying including gross misconduct, SOSR, TUPE, grievances alleging discrimination, multiple redundancies and absence management.

·         Ensure that personal knowledge of HR and Employment Law is continually updated.

·         Achieve six measured set KPIs to support all clients with quality sound advice in a productive manner within set SLAs in order to provide a first call resolution. This will be predominately call advice and adjusted accordingly by your particular caseload whilst being available for the clients.

·         To actively own cases to resolution, building rapport and relationships with clients on each interaction.

·         To log all advice accurately onto the bespoke internal system, taking ownership and responsibility for ongoing cases.

·         To provide clients with supporting information/documentation to assist them in the advice provided.

·         Review client documentation and provide advice accordingly taking their internal terms and conditions into account.

·         Refer to Company internal training and legal updates to ensure that advice provided is compliant with our services.

·         To undertake and report on client visits as required by the Advice Service Managers.

·         Follow internal protocols for managing and escalating cases where applicable and ensure full communication and smooth transition when transferring cases to other specialist teams.

·         Carry out other tasks that are deemed necessary by the Management Team.

·         To offer the clients options regarding the take up of other products we provide and make such recommendations accordingly.

·         Ensuring that training records are maintained to reflect the work you have done linked to the skills standard.

·         Take responsibility for your own self development.

·         Develop good working practices by managing your time, effort and resources effectively.

What you Bring to the Team

·         A “can-do” attitude, a thirst for knowledge and the ability to communicate knowledge effectively within the team.

·         Ability to work in a fast paced environment.

·         Strong time management skills.

·         A dynamic and flexible approach, as well as the ability to work under pressure.