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Welcome to Center Parcs – the number one choice for short break holidays, employing a team of over 10,000 across Head Office and six separate villages located in the UK and Ireland.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Qualified Solicitor with a current practising certificate and between 1 – 3 years PQE
• Specialist Employment Law experience and technical knowledge of UK employment tribunal practice
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS:

• ‘In-House’ Experience
• Relevant industry experience
• Experience of delivering training and development sessions
• Some experience of legal work in Ireland would be desirable
• Advocacy experience

We are seeking a proactive and commercially astute Employment Solicitor to join our People team, where you will act as a trusted partner to HR and senior leadership, providing pragmatic, solution-focused legal advice on a wide range of UK and Irish employment matters.
This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic decision-making across the business while playing a key role in managing employee relations, supporting policy development, and ensuring compliance with employment legislation.

Duties will include:

• Providing timely advice and support to HR and other colleagues on all employment-related matters in the UK and Ireland, including performance management, grievances, disciplinaries, redundancies, sickness absence, complex investigations, and day-to-day ER issues
• Draft, review, update and negotiate employment and legal documentation such as contracts, policies, templates, guidance, consultancy and settlement agreements
• Keeping up to date with, and assess the impact of legislative changes and legal developments, proposing relevant changes to policies and practices
• Participating in creation and delivery of training and development on employment law topics to HR and other internal teams
• Supporting on cross-border projects and international work
• Managing the relationship with our external legal partners in the UK and Ireland
• Managing Employment litigation from start to finish, including advocacy at preliminary hearings where appropriate
• You’ll also be active in supporting the business on large-scale projects with employment law implications, including major consultations and advise on organisational change (e.g. restructurings, redundancies, TUPE transfers, variations to terms and conditions) and prepare associated documentation