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Immigration and Public Law Solicitor

Hours
9 – 5.30pm, 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)
Salary
£ 35,000 - £43,000 (depending on experience)
Responsible to
Public Law Supervisors (Public Law team and Children and Young People team) 
Location
Old Street, London
Closing date

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

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.   

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. 

HOW TO APPLY

The first stage is to complete on our online application form on our website by 10:00m Monday 23rd November 2026.

The website form will ask you to:

• Upload a short covering letter. Please tell us why the position appeals to you, and how your relevant skills and experience, including any voluntary experience and lived experience, matches the listed responsibilities and person specification. Please also state in your covering letter when you would be available to start the role. This information can be shared in one of four different ways:

1. Written A4 (No more than 2 sides of A4)

2. PowerPoint (No more than 3 slides)

3. Audio recording (No more than 5 mins)*

4. Video Recording (No more than 5 mins)*

* * * if you send in your cover letter in one these formats, please do not upload this to our website but email it to jobs@helenbamber.org.

• Upload your current CV

• Complete an online Equal Opportunities monitoring form – completion of this form will help us ensure that our recruitment procedures operate in such a way as to provide genuine equality of opportunity. The questions are entirely optional and this information will not be available to members of the selection panel.

TIMELINE

Closing date: 10:00 am 23rd Nov 2026   

Preliminary interviews (online): 2nd Dec 2026 

Final panel interviews (in person): 7th or 8th Dec 2026 

ELIGIBILITY 

Please note that the successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK (as a small charity we do 
not have the capacity to sponsor work visas).
(Full details available on the Job Description) 

ADJUSTMENTS 

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. 

EXPERTS BY EXPERIENCE SUPPORT

We are also proud to be a member of the Experts by Experience Employment Network (www.ebeemployment.org.uk), which aims to increase representation of people with lived experience in the charitable sector.

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  

Download full job description here.

Equal Opportunities

Our commitment to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our approach to our clients, our volunteers and our staff, and we are an equal opportunities and Living Wage employer. We are committed to attracting and recruiting diverse candidates because we are keen to make sure that all our staff, trustees, volunteers and ambassadors reflect the communities we serve and the wider community we work in.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from a range of backgrounds, especially people of colour, people with disabilities, people from low socio-economic backgrounds, refugees, stateless people and others with lived experience of forced migration or trauma.

Statement on artificial intelligence (AI) and recruitment

At the Helen Bamber Foundation / Asylum Aid we don’t make decisions based on artificial intelligence (AI). We have a human approach to hiring and all applications are reviewed and assessed by our team. Similarly, what we are most interested in hearing about is your individual motivation, experience, skills and values. AI doesn’t know about you or what motivates you – we want to hear from you.

AI may be a helpful tool, but typically leads to generic answers repeated by multiple candidates, not stand out applications. Please make sure that your responses reflect your own thoughts and experiences.

Application form

To apply, please add your details and upload your CV and cover letter and CV, and press submit to answer some short questions.


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.

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