Employment Law Advisor

About the role

As an Employment Law Advisor for Moorepay you’ll be working with a range of clients across multiple sectors (including unionised environments), using your expert knowledge and experience to provide fact sensitive, risk focused, commercially minded and accurate Employment Law & HR advice. You’ll be great at keeping abreast of all relevant UK & ROI Employment Law legislation change to ensure we’re always providing high quality advice in line with our contractual obligations.

Key responsibilities include:

Provide our clients with best practice and legally compliant employment law/HR advice & guidance considering the facts, the law and where necessary a clients’ policies & procedures in a high transaction department.
Provide higher risk/commercially focused employment law/HR advice & guidance.
Provide full HR & Employment Law support to those clients who source their whole HR department to us.
Ensure that accurate and relevant records are maintained of all advice given.
Support the telephone 24/7 365 Advice Line service out of business hours.
Assist and advise clients in their dealings with other external agencies such as ACAS, trade unions and regulatory bodies.
Review and update clients’ employee handbooks, principal statements and other related documentation electronically in accordance with departmental standards, current employment law and instructions from team members.
Critique policies, statements and procedures to produce recommended and revised legally binding versions of those documents, writing new documents from time to time to as necessary.
Advise and effectively resolve with clients any contractual queries and amendments required to their employment documentation via telephone/email, which arise out of any proposed change as may be requested to a client’s contractual documentation.
Ensure process documentation is updated and shared with team members and other colleagues in conjunction with other colleagues as required.
Conduct an array of on-site HR & Employment Law services & projects with clients providing any documentation, discussing and/or providing updates to client documentation and provision of an array of special projects & training to the client ad their employees.
Provide advice on conducting a particular Human Resources or Employment Law exercise to the provision of on-site Human Resources or Employment Law training, to communicating changes in terms and conditions of employment to the workforce.
Liaise with Account Managers to ensure the clients’ objectives are met.
Maintain a high level of customer service both before and during the clients contractual relationship with Moorepay.
Ensure that service provision promotes quality and value to customers at all times.
Skills and experience required

Suitable Degree relevant to Employment Law, such as CIPD or MCIPD.
Law Degree with Legal Practice Certificate or Barrister Vocational Qualification (desirable but not essential).
Good knowledge and practical experience of advising clients in all aspects of HR & Employment Law in a high transaction department.
Ability to work autonomously but as part of a wider team.
Ability to influence at all levels.
Highly self-motivated and driven.
An excellent communicator, with strong verbal, written and listening skills.
Strong client facing skills and able to communicate and act at management level with a very credible presence.
About Us

Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Manchester, Sheffield, Farnborough and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!

To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:

A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off!
Private medical insurance.
Life assurance 4x salary.
Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.