Immigration Enforcement

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 292492**Salary**:

- £25,750 - £27,650- AHW of up to 23.5% is applicable on this role (see further information for more details).**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Borders and Enforcement - Immigration Enforcement**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Shift Working**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Warrington - HMP RisleyAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Immigration Enforcement (IE) is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on the Immigration Enforcement careers page.**Job description**:

- Immigration Prison Team (IPT) is the operational arm of Foreign National Offender, Removals Command (FNO RC) and comprises of 13 teams based in a variety of locations across the UK. The HMP Risley Team is embedded within the prison and Immigration Officers (IOs) work closely with HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to enable us to carry out key frontline interactions. Our main objective is to protect the public, by rigorously pursuing removal or deportation of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs), convicted of criminal offences, where legislation permits. We support case owners to remove barriers and enable timely removal or deportation, on conclusion of their sentence, or as soon as possible afterwards.**Person specification**:

- Undertake operational activity on prison wings, interacting with FNOs face to face.
- Serve a variety of legal paperwork to FNOs, provide case updates where necessary.
- Conduct induction interviews with FNOs, to confirm status, nationality and identity.
- Complete a wide range of interviews with FNOs, including interviews under caution and asylum.
- Conduct immigration surgeries in the various prisons.
- Work closely with internal and external partners, it is essential to ensure excellent stakeholder relationships are developed, as well as maintained to achieve the best access to FNOs.
- Liaise with, and support case owners to conclude barriers to removal or deportation.

This is a demanding and challenging hands-on role, in a unique working environment, but is equally fulfilling, offering a wide range of development opportunities. There is an element of office based work, however, a large part of the working day will be spent on prison wings at various prison locations.

Due to the nature of this role, frequency of travel and business needs, this role is only available on a full-time basis.

**Essential Criteria**
- Ability to confidently manage potentially difficult and challenging situations.
- Experience of working under pressure with limited supervision.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Be flexible and adaptable to change.
- Work in an organised manner to deliver on time, and to a high standard.
- Remain focused on delivery under pressure.
- Can demonstrate sound interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills and thrive working as part of a team.
- Be committed to continuous improvement.
- Have a strong sense of personal ethics and honesty.
- Be familiar with computers and have a basic knowledge of Word and Excel.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Asylum interview trained.
- Warranted.
- Minimum Level 2 Personal Safety Trained.

**Licences**:

- Full UK driving licence.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The test is administered online and accessed via the Civil Service Jobs website.

You CANNOT complete the Test on a mobile phone or tablet.

Following successful completion of the test, you will then be asked to complete:

- A statement of suitability (personal statement) (maximum 500 words)
- Provide evidence of the behaviours Communicating and Influencing (250 words maximum), Changing and Improving (250 words maximum) and Working Together (250 words maximum)

The statement of suitability should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the