Company: eNL Legal Recruitment
Location: Cheltenham
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will join a national law firm’s Education & Charities team to advise education providers on employment issues. You’ll handle a mix of contentious and non-contentious matters, from HR advisory to complex investigations and governance changes. You will work closely with school leaders and senior staff to deliver practical, commercially focused solutions. This is a chance to develop a specialist education sector practice within a supportive, collaborative culture.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- comprehensive benefits package
- flexible working arrangements
Responsibilities
- Advise education clients on a broad range of employment matters, both contentious and non-contentious
- Provide HR advisory support including disciplinary and grievance handling
- Address safeguarding concerns and senior executive appointments/exits
- Assist with restructures, redundancies, academy conversions, mergers and governance changes
- Draft and review employment contracts, policies and staff handbooks
- Collaborate with headteachers, governors, COOs and senior leadership teams to deliver practical solutions
Key requirements
- 4+ years’ PQE in employment law
- Solid experience across a broad range of employment matters
- Strong communication skills and ability to deliver clear, practical advice
- Commercially minded and skilled at building long-term client relationships
- Experience or interest in the education sector (advantageous but not essential)
- excellent communication
- relationship-building
- commercially minded
- employment law expertise
- HR advisory
- drafting employment contracts and policies
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Posted: October 1st, 2026