Reports to: National Coordinator, KIND UK

Location: Anywhere in the UK (with an option to work from offices in Coventry or
Birmingham) 

Duration: Fixed term until June 30th 2025, with a possibility of extension

Hours: Part-time, 15 hours per week

Salary: From £30,909 to £35,244 (pro-rata, depending on experience)

Purpose

Kids in Need of Defense UK is a collaboration between four award-winning, UK based not for profits that specialise in children’s immigration and asylum law. We partner with lawyers and law firms across the UK to provide the highest quality legal advice and representation for free to undocumented children and young people. Central England Law Centre (CELC) is the UK’s Largest Law Centre and the lead partner in the KIND UK collaboration. The successful candidate will be working with Central England Law Centre (CELC) on the KIND UK project.

This is a key role for which we’re seeking a suitably qualified and experienced immigration adviser. They will be responsible for providing an excellent frontline service to KIND UK clients, leading on all matters relating to the assessment and triage of new referrals to the service. 

The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Responsibilities:

• Assess referrals which have been flagged for legal advice by KIND UK
  administrators, for merit and suitability for the KIND UK project
• Assess and agree the appropriate level of service, making the initial triaging decision on referrals
• Provide internal legal advice on referrals with legal complexities
• Provide one-off advice to prospective clients via telephone and/or email, where appropriate
• Make onward referrals to other suitable immigration advisers and other services, where appropriate

Personal Specification:

Essential:

• OISC L3 or admitted as a solicitor or barrister in the UK or equivalent right to give
  immigration advice
• Significant post-qualification experience in child, young person and adult immigration and nationality law
• Broad and confident knowledge of UK immigration and nationality law and policy
• Experienced and confident in making independent and swift decisions on legal issues in immigration and nationality law

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a triage function
• Experience of working with vulnerable clients
• Experience of working with social workers and other children’s services professionals

About CELC:

A fairer, more just society in which an understanding of rights and their power is embedded within communities.

Central England Law Centre is the UK’s largest Law Centre. Our size enables us to provide legal expertise across eight different areas of social welfare law including: discrimination; employment; health and social care; housing; immigration and asylum; public law; and welfare benefits. This means that we can offer services that can address all of the interconnected problems people face in their everyday lives.

Our services are rooted in the communities we serve and we are an organisation that uses its legal expertise to improve the lives of those who are often vulnerable and socially excluded due to poverty, illness or disability.

What we can offer you:

• 37-hour working week;
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working arrangement;
• 28 days holiday (rising by 1 day per year of service to 35 days after 5 years of service) plus 8 statutory days;
• Pension scheme membership;
• Access to an employee assistance programme; 

We invite interested candidates to download our Recruitment Pack for this role from our website Work for us | Central England Law Centre Limited ( Main Site )(centralenglandlc.org.uk)

To submit your application, please complete the KIND UK Triage Supervisor Form, found on our website.

Closing date: 10am on 7th October 2024.

Interviews will be held in week commencing: 14th October 2024