Job Description

The Senior Solicitor role delivers high quality, timely and accessible legal advice across all aspects of Employment Law. They will act as a trusted business partner to colleagues across Sellafield Ltd and, when required, the NDA group, providing clear, solution focused legal advice and guidance that supports effective decision making.

The Senior Solicitor role will manage complex, sensitive and high-profile matters, lead on major legal projects, and contribute to the delivery of the strategic objectives of both the business and the wider NDA group.

Principal Accountabilities

• Deliver high quality, timely and accessible legal advice to a broad range of stakeholders across the business through the provision of clear, practical and solution focused legal options that support effective decision making.
• Review, interpret and apply the law in practice, including analysing legal documents and external legal advice extracting and adapting key points into clear, business focused guidance to support accurate application of the law by stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted adviser by applying a broad range of commercial and strategic legal skills to assist the business to secure outcomes that are legally compliant and aligned with business objectives.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships, engaging in proactive stakeholder management to enhance the effectiveness, credibility and influence of the legal function; through the provision of clear legislative updates, guidance and training to internal stakeholders to enhance their understanding of the relevant legal obligations and how these apply to their jobs.
• Undertake legal risk analysis and manage across contentious and non‑contentious matters, to support effective risk management and develop appropriate mitigation strategies; escalating issues to the function head and/or General Counsel (as appropriate).
• Maintain high professional and technical standards in compliance with Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Principles and regulatory obligations to ensure technical competence through ongoing professional development and regulatory obligations.
• Drive continuous improvement, value for money and efficiency in line with company values and nuclear professional standards and expectations through effective individual and team performance in order to contribute to the effectiveness and development of the legal function.

AUTHORITIES & DIMENSIONS

• Instruct and manage the provision of legal services from external providers, ensuring that they are provided with all necessary information to enable them to provide advice that is accurate, and targeted.
• Pro-actively monitor and manage external legal spend to ensure that the quality of services are appropriate, efficiencies are made and value for money is maximised.
• Act in accordance with the financial delegated powers authority relevant to the Office of General Counsel.

Knowledge & Experience

• Skilled at providing bespoke legal advice to support decision-making at senior levels.
• Ability to handle sensitive, confidential and complex matters and manage a varied and complex caseload.
• Provides bespoke legal advice after clear instructions from the stakeholder, which considers, reputational and business impact.
• Works on more complex matters with high autonomy and manages own workload.
• Anticipates dependencies and takes action when required to.
• Works collaboratively as part of a team and contributes to workload planning.
• Leads and advises on complex, high-risk/value, multi‑party matters or projects with minimal supervision.
• Works with the stakeholders and advises on options available to meet their objectives.
• Works with stakeholders (including senior leaders) to ensure the legal advice incorporates risk framing and commercially aware advice.
• Working on and may lead cross‑functional/NDA wide legal projects.
• Acts as an escalation point for the team.

Essential Skills

• Qualified to practice as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales with the relevant post qualification experience required for the job.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in Employment Law.
• Substantial experience in providing legal advice concerning contentious, sensitive, confidential and complex cases.
• Effective use of analytical and innovative thinking and application, specifically but not exclusively in relation to the interpretation of law.

Desirable Skills

• Prior in‑house experience (public or private sector) with additional private practice experience in Employment Law.
• Experience of mentoring and/or developing junior lawyers or team members.

Additional Information

• Open VN
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Contact/s: Victoria Bennett or Mia Nawaz

The interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place w/c 15th June 2026.

ASW’s may have the right to apply for internal Sellafield Ltd vacancies. Please note if you are an Agency Supplied Worker you are required to attach evidence of all qualifications obtained to support your application. We require a minimum of A*-C (9-4) GCSE in English Language, Maths & Science/IT or equivalent / higher qualification.

If you choose to apply for this role and your application is shortlisted by the hiring manager, you will be invited to a competency based interview. The competencies will be issued with interview invites.

Please see link to the competency framework for further information:
https://slportal.ssa-intra.net/pub/SC001/00027/Competency%20Framework/Forms/AllItems.aspx

If your technical competency is not in the above framework, please refer to the profession’s share point page for further information.

Sellafield Ltd are recognised as a Disability Confident Employer (Level 3). Disability Confident employers offer an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. Sellafield Ltd define the minimum criteria as the ‘essential skills’ which are listed on the vacancy notice. Whilst completing your application form, you will be able to indicate if you wish to be considered under the disability confident scheme. If you would prefer to discuss this directly with us, please contact the GBS Recruitment team on recruitment@sellafieldcloud.co.uk

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The closing date for this vacancy is Sunday 7th June 2026.

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