Wellbeing Lead Membership

The Law Society

About the Organisation

Law Society represents solicitors in England and Wales. From negotiating with and lobbying the profession's regulators, government, and others, to offering training and advice, we're here to help, protect, and promote solicitors across England and Wales. An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit for a role at the heart of the Law Society's campaigning and political influencing activity.

The Law Society is the independent professional body for over 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales. A year into the new government, there is a significant opportunity to influence the political debate, driving important issues such as access to justice, the rule of law, and supporting a thriving legal business sector up the agenda and influencing policy on behalf of our members.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the implementation of the Law Society's wellbeing strategy and champion initiatives that make a real difference to our members. You will build and maintain strategic relationships with external stakeholders, developing partnerships that extend our reach and impact. You will manage a Wellbeing Manager and work closely with members, partners, and internal teams to design and deliver initiatives that help organisations embed healthy and supportive practices across the solicitor profession.

Using strong project management and evaluation approaches, you will track outcomes, report on impact, and support continuous improvement. As the organisation's lead wellbeing expert, you will shape resources, partnerships, and messaging that promote resilience and psychological safety. This role offers the chance to influence culture and deliver meaningful, evidence-based wellbeing support to solicitors.

Responsibilities

Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead the delivery of the Law Society’s member-facing strategic goal on
• Wellbeing and associated workstreams.
• Lead on engagement with key external stakeholders on wellbeing, developing and maintaining positive and strategic relationships, including developing partnership and funding arrangements as appropriate.
• Coordinate with internal teams (including learning and development, support centre, research and insights, commercial, communications) to ensure wellbeing plans and outputs across the Society are aligned with our strategic goal workstreams.
• Act as the first point of contact and subject matter expert for member-facing
• Wellbeing matters and queries, and delegate as appropriate. Implement new processes and structures to respond to internal and external queries on member-facing Wellbeing issues, approving briefings/press lines etc. within an agreed framework.

Project Management:

• Collaborate with leaders, members, and partners to develop strategies, deliver initiatives, and provide resources that support organisations in the legal profession to embed positive, healthy cultures that promote wellbeing, and help solicitors manage their mental health and overall wellbeing
• Ensure appropriate project management methodologies and evaluation frameworks are implemented for all projects, aligning outcomes to the Law
• Society’s member-facing Wellbeing strategic goal, using data to track impact, and producing output/outcome reports as required.
• Ensure knowledge, insights and best practice from programmes and activities within the team and across the Law Society inform wellbeing activities and projects and wider Law Society activities
• Coordinate and work with teams across the Law Society, relevant committees, and the Member Advisory Forum to ensure member input informs and shapes project design and outputs and key segments and audiences are engaged and informed as appropriate throughout the strategy period. Ensure working groups are managed effectively, and in line with agreed volunteer frameworks.
• Liaise with the communications team to ensure communication and dissemination of wellbeing outputs and outcomes to key audiences.
• Oversee the commissioning (in-house or external) of any new research and insights gathering activities across the team, supporting the team to ensure well-being best practice informs project scope, design and delivery.
• Develop budgets, manage resources and control expenditure for the
• Well-being elements of the departmental budget. This includes supporting the
• Head of EDI and Wellbeing with month/quarter/year-end reporting and setting future budgets.
• Ensure regular updates are provided to the Head of EDI and Wellbeing and relevant Committees

Line Management and Wider Team Development:

• Manage, coach, support and guide your direct reports, ensuring the smooth and effective delivery of outputs in line with individual, team, and organisational goals. This will often include effective collaboration with a range of colleagues to meet deadlines.
• Play an active role in the management of the wider department and work closely with EDI Lead (Membership) and Head of EDI and Wellbeing to make sure plans and outputs are aligned.
• Together with the Head of EDI and Wellbeing, set team objectives and targets that ensure the effective and efficient delivery of the team's performance.
• Shared responsibility for team wellbeing and development.
• Guide the department and wider organisation in the continuous improvement of our ways of working and outputs.
• Support the Head of EDI and Wellbeing in the smooth management of the department, picking up ad hoc requests when needed and deputising where required.

Skills, Competencies & Experience

Skills and Attributes:

• Strong people management skills, with experience in leading a team to continually adapt in a changing environment.
• Significant experience in a wellbeing role or equivalent in a complex, fast-paced organisation
• Demonstrable track record of designing, implementing and evaluating wellbeing strategies and programmes which have delivered positive and measurable outcomes
• Monitoring and evaluation experience, and experience of applying a continuous improvement approach to ensure that programme planning and delivery are informed by ongoing evaluation.
• Strong experience in managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the capacity to deal with complex issues
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with proven experience of building and maintaining effective working relationships with a broad and diverse range of people, including colleagues, members, and external stakeholders at all levels
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of wellbeing issues such as mental health, stress, and psychological safety, including challenges, current best practice and what works to drive positive change, as well as legal and regulatory considerations
• Knowledge of organisational psychology or change management principles
• Knowledge and understanding of wellbeing in the solicitors' profession
• Experience in commissioning and managing agency contracts and partner relationships
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be clear, accurate, concise and engaging.
• Able to engage with, command the respect of and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, with the ability to quickly form positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• Self-motivated, flexible, proactive and positive attitude, with the ability to inspire the same approach in others.
• Ability to respond well to change and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Strong planning, analytical and organisational skills, including the ability to multitask and manage competing priorities. Able to effectively manage and prioritise workload during busy periods to produce high-quality outputs

Desirable:

• Relevant professional qualification
• Experience of working at and providing advice on wellbeing to a membership professional body and a similar organisation which works with a wide community of stakeholders

Compensation & Benefits

• 3% flex fund after 3 months, plus comprehensive benefits

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the London office and remotely

How to apply

• Apply online
• If you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Polly Williams at [email protected]
• Please note: if you are an internal applicant, the Pay Policy will apply. 

Interviews

• First round interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held online on 12th January 2026.

Policies

The Law Society is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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