26 Legal jobs in Rochdale

As an Employment Lawyer, you'll support the People and Places function and our wider LBG businesses, providing legal advice on a very broad range of employment issues and supporting those who support our customers. If you would like to be part of a purpose driven, customer focused, agile and friendly team, please read on. Day to day you'll:

• Be required to proactively identify and manage key employment legal risks and their implications for LBG so that you can support the business with pragmatic, solution focused advice;
• Have an ability to rapidly switch between different issues and priorities;
• Have the autonomy to handle your own workload and you'll also work across teams;
• Support the senior lawyers in the team and the Head of HR Legal to ensure appropriate cover according to team and business needs;
• Share knowledge across the team and continually develop your skills; and
• Support the team's initiative to provide training to the People team on relevant legal topics.
More broadly, you'll:
• Support strategic activities of the Legal & Secretariat Function which align to LBG's purpose, strategy and culture.
• Demonstrate our values and behaviours to support our culture; and
• Build and maintain a strong internal network and key customer and colleague connections., Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
  
  Legally qualified with 7+ years' PQE and skills in a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, gained, ideally, in an established in-house legal team or a leading private practice firm
• Employment Tribunal case management experience
• Someone with strong commercial awareness and an ability to build deep customer relationships by having a customer focussed approach
• Someone with a growth mindset, curious to learn and develop yourself to acquire the skills of the future; and
• Wanting to develop your internal personal profile and network, including within Legal & Secretariat and with business customers, Disability Confident
About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies