Lead Immigration Caseworker/Solicitor

Merseyside Law Centre delivers specialist social welfare legal advice and assistance via drop-in surgeries, outreach, telephone and email to service users and frontline advice agencies. We do all levels of casework including appeals and judicial review. The need for our services has never been greater.

​We are looking for an immigration caseworker/solicitor to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to lead on continuing to develop a new immigration area of practice at Merseyside Law Centre. This post and the development of the immigration service is being supported by the Justice Together initiative responding to the challenges faced by the legal advice sector and evidence that people in communities around the UK are struggling to access justice.

The successful applicant will have at least two years recent, professional experience of providing immigration casework in a legal or advice setting and Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Level 2 or higher. ​You will also demonstrate experience of working on a Legal Aid Immigration and Asylum contract. If the successful applicant is not a solicitor they will need to be regulated by the OISC. Law Society Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Level 2 exempts the caseworker in the asylum and protection category for OISC regulation but they will need OISC level 3 in the immigration category.

This post and the development of the immigration service is being supported by the Justice Together initiative responding to the challenges faced by the legal advice sector and evidence that people in communities around the UK are struggling to access justice.

Terms and conditions include:

• Pension Scheme (3% employee and 3% employer contribution)

• Flexible working policy including home working

• 36 days holiday per year including bank holidays

• Access to an employee assistance programme

• Hybrid working policy

​Merseyside Law Centre has an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy. We encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex (gender) and sexual orientation.

​We encourage people with lived experience of the issues we deal with to apply for posts.

For an application pack please visit: www.merseysidelawcentre.co.uk/vacancies

Closing date for applications: No closing data, get your application in as soon as possible

Interviews will take place: Suitable candidates will be interviewed ASAP