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LOCATION: London Broadcasting House - Hybrid - the Employment Law Team works a minimum of Tuesdays and Wednesdays from the office and then, subject to team needs and work permitting, the remaining time from home.

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,600 - £70,000pa plus London Weighting (£5,441pa), depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The BBC is seeking a qualified employment lawyer to join our team of employment lawyers, based in London to complement the experience of the existing team.

Working within the BBC's legal division, you'll be providing advice on a variety of issues. This will include autonomously handling employment litigation cases, and advising on grievances and disciplinaries, redundancy, discrimination and equal pay, whistleblowing and TUPE.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join our highly skilled Employment Law team, providing expert UK legal advice on employment law across the BBC. The work is challenging and fast moving and you will gain experience of both contentious and non-contentious work.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain a breadth of employment law experience in a supportive environment working aspart of a team. The BBC's employment lawyers are responsible for providing a high quality legal advisory service for senior managers and HR professionals across the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

As a Lawyer, you will:

• provide a high quality legal advisory service for senior managers and HR professionals across the BBC and its commercial subsidiaries
• handle tribunal cases and providing advice on a variety of issues including discrimination, grievances and disciplinaries
• manage large amounts of data and materials
• subject to your seniority, have sole responsibility for matters or tasks, or work with a more senior colleague
• support training and knowledge management activities
• work collaboratively with colleagues in the team and across the BBC

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• A UK-qualified employment lawyer with a current practising certificate and excellent academics.
• Good knowledge of employment law and relevant experience gained within a leading law firm and/or specialist employment team. This will include experience of advising and/or working autonomously on a range of varied and challenging employment legal matters (including employment tribunals).
• Possess excellent analytical, document management, organisational and communication skills, along with the enthusiasm and flexibility for the challenges of this role.
• You'll also be able to work under pressure maintaining excellent attention to detail, successfully prioritise work whilst handling a number of different matters at the same time, and meet deadlines
• Ability to work supportively as a team member and to build and manage relationships at all levels.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• This role would suit NQ to 3 years' Post Qualified Experience (we would also consider junior lawyers with higher PQE)
• Previous experience in the Media industry.
• Previous experience in-house

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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