Traineeship at WorkNest
Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary journey that will shape your legal career? At WorkNest, we provide trainees a unique and exciting opportunity that seamlessly encapsulates our core values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, and inclusion.
Join our Team
At WorkNest, we believe that learning should be fun and engaging. Our traineeship is designed to provide aspiring lawyers with a dynamic and stimulating environment where you are able to develop your skills, experience, and passion as you start your path to becoming a qualified Solicitor. We understand that the best learning happens when you are motivated and enthusiastic, so we’ve created a traineeship that brings out the best in you.
As a trainee at WorkNest you’ll have the chance to work alongside experienced professionals who are not only passionate about what they do but are specialists in their field. Our team of legal experts will guide and mentor you, ensuring that you receive the support you need to excel. From day one, you’ll be given real responsibilities and client involvement, allowing you to gain hands-on experience and make a meaningful impact.
In this video testimonial, Katie shares her experiences, insights, and the skills she has honed through the Traineeship scheme.
In this video testimonial, Lottie shares her experiences, insights, and the skills she has honed through the Paralegal scheme.
Don't just take our word for it...
"The culture across the whole of WorkNest is pretty special."
"I know it’s a cliché but I love coming to work each day because of the people I work with. The whole team are so dedicated, focused and great at what they do, I find myself learning something new each day - and that’s really inspiring."
"I feel lucky to have colleagues that are like my extended family."
"I love that I am trusted and given the autonomy to work from home as part of our hybrid working policy – it truly is down to me to work my hardest day in, day out."
"This isn’t your standard paralegal role."
"This is a souped-up getting your hands stuck in role, with a plethora of learning on the job. I highly recommend the experience to any budding Solicitors as it is a great way to gain the key skills that you would generally not get by doing a traditional training contract."
"The work is dynamic, challenging and rewarding."
"Every day is different and every client has different needs, which is exciting - it’s cliché but in this case very true. The work is dynamic, challenging and rewarding. Everyday is an opportunity for professional stretch and development which is brilliant."
"I have a real feeling that each employee really matters."
"There is a drive for performance and we are given the tools and motivation to achieve this. Equally the company cares about employee wellbeing and has many measures in place to make sure that any concerns are met.""I can honestly say, I look forward to logging on on a Monday morning!"
"The culture at WorkNest is great. You don’t feel any sense of hierarchy as I have found in other businesses I've worked for. Everyone is approachable, including the CEO who is always happy to have a coffee and a catch up."
"I’ve only been here a short time, but I feel like I’ve been here forever!"
"We’ve got a range of social events, which are engaging, such as Yoga sessions and Book Club, as well as a genuine focus on wellbeing, through chats and sessions with health experts."
"WorkNest has a culture like nothing I have experienced before."
"When I first joined, I didn’t know what to expect having worked in other ‘strict office-based environments’ I never felt heard or respected. This is completely different at WorkNest!""It's all about the interactions with people."
"We are all on our own journey and we are an ambitious company. It's so rewarding to see how far people come along, and the difference we are making; work has to be rewarding to create the sense of achievement and pride. I love that we have all of that."
"I work purely remotely, but I never feel alone."
"I have a very supportive team who are great fun and very knowledgeable to work with. I learn something new every day, which is great for my personal development and keeps my job interesting. I have a manager who genuinely believes in me and supports me with regular 121s, training and development. "Traineeships at WorkNest
Our open opportunities are listed below.
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Benefits of working at WorkNest
At WorkNest, we recognise the importance of having an engaged, healthy, diverse and inclusive culture. This is a good thing in itself, and also makes business sense.
Health Cash plan
Life Assurance
Up to £15 per month fitness subsidence
Subsidised Personal Training sessions
Social events throughout the year
Hybrid working arrangements
Birthday Day-off
Book club
Free Will writing service
EAP & Wellbeing services
Wellbeing talks and classes
Free yoga classes
VITO Days – up to 2 days per holiday year paid volunteering
Auto Enrolment Pension contributions after 3 months service
Employee benefits we offer
Reward & Recognition
EW runs a number of reward and recognition programmes across the company to ensure brilliant work is recognised and everyone is motivate to do their best.
Annual
Leave
In addition to contractual annual leave entitlement of 25 days, we give you an additional day’s leave for each year of service.This could go up to 30 days!
Pension
Scheme
We offer a contributory pension scheme for all colleagues with a salary sacrifice scheme to help you save in the most efficient way possible.
Colleague
Discount
Our colleague discount site provides you with money off and cash back on a huge range of products and services.
Gym
Membership
To support your health and wellbeing, you are able to join a gym of your choice and we will provide £15 a month towards membership.
Private
Medical
After three months’ service, you will be eligible to join the Private Medical Insurance Scheme. We pay 25% of the cost of Single Cover and after three years we pay 100%!
Life
Assurance
You will benefit from Level 1 Cover of the Medicash Health Cash Plan which provides you and up to 4 children with cashback towards glasses, dental work, access to online doctors and more.
Health Cash
Plan
Sometimes everyone needs a little support. The EAP is there to provide help on a range of personal matters free of charge.
Our wellbeing charter. It’s OK to...
- Be yourself (everyone else is taken!)
- Trust your instincts, do the right thing
- Say that you are not OK, ask for help and support
- Allow your children or pets to gatecrash your video
- Prioritise your emotional and physical wellbeing
- Not know everything, or say “I don’t know”
- Be proud of doing a great job
- Wear clothes that you think are appropriate
- Challenge things that can be improved
- Trust and praise the contributions that others make
- Get involved in one of our great causes
- Have fun
WorkNest in the community
WorkNest is delighted to have Maggie’s (The Home of Cancer Care) as our Charity Partner. Maggie’s offers the best possible support to anyone dealing with , as well as any of their friends and families who walk through their doors. With the number of people living with cancer in the UK expected to rise to four million by 2030, there is an ever-increasing need to provide expert support and guidance to employees affected by cancer.
Maggie’s has beautiful, boutique centres across the whole of the UK; wherever there is a WorkNest office, there is a Maggie’s not too far away. This partnership, therefore, feels even more rewarding as it allows us to support a national charity, with local initiatives across our multi-site business. Our VITO (Voluntary Impactful Time Off) benefit means that our colleagues are able to support their local Maggie’s centres through volunteering opportunities, as well as taking part in our national charity initiatives, such as Tour de Maggie’s – our virtual activity week where we covered 2,275 kilometres and raised lots of money along the way.
We are fortunate that WorkNest can support Maggie’s in more ways than just financially. We provide complimentary employment law advice, eLearning, and an HR System to protect their organisation and advance the way their people work, further enabling their professional growth and supporting their incredible work. Win Win!
Proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covernant
WorkNest is a proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covernant. We have pledged our commitment to uphold the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed forces community.
We endeavour to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant and will demonstrate our commitment by promoting the partnership across our internal communications, careers website, vacancies and social media platforms.
WorkNest will support the employment of veterans, recognising military skills and qualifications, and will collaborate with the Careers Transition Partnership to support the employment of Service Leavers.
We will endeavour to accommodate and support any employee who is a member of the Reserve Forces and will support the employment of Service spouses and partners.
WorkNest will actively support Armed Forces National events, encouraging our colleagues to take part in Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance Day.
We champion a positive an inclusive culture at WorkNest and together, we strive to create an environment where integrity, inclusion, teamwork and excellence converge.
