Legal Counsel - Employment

Provide day-to-day employment law advice to HR and business leaders on a wide range of matters, including disciplinaries, grievances, performance, sickness, restructures, and general employee relations. Advise on employee exits, restrictive covenants, and confidentiality obligations, while supporting litigation matters such as Employment Tribunal claims and High Court proceedings. Draft, review, and update employment contracts, settlement agreements, policies, and template documentation. Support redundancy consultations, TUPE, and organizational change initiatives by partnering closely with HR Business Partners and senior stakeholders to provide commercially focused, solutions-driven advice. This role sits within Howden's expanding Legal team, a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to both operational and strategic employment workstreams while developing best-practice HR processes and people-related governance.