Immigration and Public Law Solicitor

As a Public Law fee earner, you will be responsible for managing a caseload of asylum, trafficking, human rights and related public law claims. You will run your own immigration caseload, delivering high quality legal services on the full range of immigration and welfare issues that affect refugees, asylum seekers and survivors of trafficking and torture in the UK. Therefore, experience of working with vulnerable clients, including victims of trafficking and other human rights violations, is highly desirable. Experience of working with children and young people is also desirable. At Asylum Aid we seek to use public law to increase the impact of our work to the benefit of all those seeking protection in the UK. As well as bringing judicial review claims on behalf of individual clients, you will have the opportunity to work with the Public Law Supervisors and other team members to develop strategic legal challenges with the aim of achieving wider benefits. Asylum Aid aims to collaborate with other organisations in the sector to make best use of the limited resources that we have available. You will be invited to attend meetings in the sector on behalf of Asylum Aid and contribute to strategy conversations. There will be scope within the role to take on deputy supervision responsibilities, subject to experience and interest in developing this side of the role. This is a good opportunity for a self-starter to influence the growth and development of the Public Law team and Children and Young People team and contribute to the wider strategic development of Asylum Aid. As is the nature of this sector, the role holder will be exposed to a high volume of traumatic and distressing material and, whilst they will be supported by their supervisor and surrounding team, they should also be able to demonstrate knowledge of good self-care principles in an intense work environment and dissemination of those principles to junior members of the team., We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process and we'll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. If you require a different format of the application form, such as large print or Word format, or if you would like to discuss any specific requirements, please get in touch with us at jobs@helenbamber.org., The personal information that you provide to us this application will be stored on our database. We will process the personal information that we collect (apart from equal opportunities data) for the purposes of the charity's legitimate interests, as follows: (1) to assess your application to work for the charity; (2) to organise interviews, or other recruitment activities; (3) for the purpose of communicating with you about your application; (4) to provide a record of our recruitment process for audit purposes and to respond to queries. We will only retain your personal information in our own database for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the purposes for which we need it, as described above. You have the right to access, correct or delete a copy of the data we hold about you at any time. If you would like to do any of these things, or if you have any concerns, please contact jobs@helenbamber.org. First name Last name Email Telephone How did you hear about this role? Upload CV Upload CV

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  The ideal candidate will be a solicitor and IAAS accredited senior caseworker, with experience of immigration legal aid work and of running judicial review challenges, particularly in the immigration and asylum context., If you are an expert by experience (a refugee or a migrant with direct, first-hand experience of issues and challenges of the UK asylum or immigration system), you can ask for an independent and confidential support for your job application from the Experts by Experience Employment Network and access other information and resources at https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/ebe. You can also request 121 interview mentoring ahead of your interview here: https://www.ebeemployment.org.uk/apply4support-121
  
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