Immigration & Asylum Senior Caseworker Level 2

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Persian Advice Bureau Full time

**Company description**

Persian Advice Bureau has been assisting asylum seekers and refugees since 2015.

**Job Overview**

Your duties will include preparing legal documentation, representing, and defending a client's legal interests, attending meetings and negotiations, and supervising work completed by the paralegal team.

**Job Description, Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To provide advice, casework and representation to clients of the Persian Advice Bureau on all aspects of asylum, immigration and nationality law. This is largely individual casework based.
- Assist clients in liaising with other people and organisations to resolve their asylum and immigration problems where possible.
- Ability to manage and supervise Solicitors, Trainee Solicitors and Caseworkers to manage appropriate caseload types and complexities.
- Assisting with the delivery of appropriate training and development in the department.
- Preparing draft documents, including witness statements and processing evidence.
- Keep abreast of changes and continuous professional development.
- Travel if necessary to meet with clients.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest changes in UK Immigration Law;
- Comply and deliver within tight deadlines.
- Have a professional, proactive approach and strong client care skills.

The above serves as a guide and is a partial list. There are other areas of responsibilities that you are expected to cover but may not be listed here.

**Professional requirements**:

- From 1 to 3 years PQE experience.
- Registered with the Law Society Immigration Accreditation Level 2 Supervisor.
- Must have a clean, valid Practicing Certificate at the time of applying.
- Previous proven supervisory experience and working to key performance indicators.
- Professional with a pro-active approach; excellent client care skills and ability to deal with vulnerable client matters in a sensitive manner and resolve complicated practicalities involved in Immigration issues.
- Strong command of English and knowledge of an additional language is a bonus.
- Have extensive experience in dealing with all Immigration related work and some expertise in adoption matters.
- Must be able to work on tight deadlines and perform well under pressure.
- Positive energy and creativity are a must, with good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a small team.
- Self-motivated and able to take the initiative to come up with new ideas and find solutions to challenges and operational issues.
- Have extensive experience in dealing with all Immigration related work and expertise in adoption matters.
- Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
- Polished client service with cultural sensitivity
- Presentable and professional at all times.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months
Part-time hours: 36 per week

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Asylum: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Immigration & Asylum Accreditation Level 2 certificate (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/08/2023
Reference ID: LAA 2023
Expected start date: 11/09/2023



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