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Employment Legal Services Assistant

  1. Permanent - Full time
£competitive plus benefits
  1. Travis Perkins plc
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Monday to Friday

Milton Keynes; Northampton

45463

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We have a great opportunity to join the HR team at Travis Perkins plc as a Employment Legal Services Assistant on a permanent basis adding value to the Employee Legal Services team and providing administrative support to a number activities. 


Location: Hybrid - working from home and our HUB head office in Northampton. 


What you’ll do

As the Employment Legal Services Assistant you will support admin support to the ELS team to case manage Employment tribunal claims and TUPE, co-ordinating activities, ensuring compliance with both legislation and the orders and directions of the Tribunal. 


In this role you will get involved in collating documents in respect to new Employment Tribunal claims and county court claims. You will support the Employment Legal Advisor in preparing responses for new tribunal claims whilst speaking with Witnesses to make sure our response is factual and addresses all heads of claim. You will assist in preparing an early case assessment, to identify the merits and potential risks of each claim. You will also support the ER team by checking contracts of employment, providing references and assisting with DSARs

Is this you?

To be considered for this role you will have had previous experience within a ER role in a multi-site business, and have an interest in employment law. You need to have excellent communications skills, be confident, and a strong influencer with the ability to respectfully challenge or be challenged at all levels. Due to the nature of the role you will need to demonstrate your ability to multitask, work well under pressure within a fast paced environment and can handle complex issues. 


If you are a strong communicator, have ER experience and can collate information with great attention to detail and advise accordingly, we want to hear from you! 


We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

- Competitive bonus
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!


Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

To keep our business and customers safe, if you are successful in the role you will be made a conditional offer subject to additional background checks. 


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