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Immigration Services Consultant

Employer
Bolton Citizens Advice
Location
Bolton, Greater Manchester
Salary
Hourly Rate Negotiable
Closing date
28 Sep 2018

Job Title Immigration Services Consultant
Location Flexible, but some travel to our offices in Bolton will be required
Hours Flexible, depending on availability and level of work available at any time
Term Self-employed/ temporary, with possible scope for permanent role
Hourly Rate Negotiable
Closing Date 5pm, 28th September 2018

Role Overview and Requirements
This is a new and exciting role, which offers a high level of flexibility for the right candidate.

For this role, we are keen to engage with individuals who may not live in Bolton or the Greater Manchester area, but are highly skilled and knowledgeable in immigration/ asylum matters and can join a busy and fast-paced team by being office based or working remotely via digital technologies.

Citizens Advice Bolton are seeking to appoint an Immigration Services Consultant to assist with the development of our immigration department and lead on a number of different work streams as and when they arise.

Broadly, the post-holder will hold the following responsibilities:

• Expert knowledge of immigration/ asylum work and able to provide training/ support to colleagues (internal/ external) as required (either face to face or via skype/ hangout)
• Provide case support to trainees/ advisers at OISC level 1, with a view of developing them to reach level 2 (as minimum)
• Ability to review immigration/ asylum information on public websites, identify gaps or legal inaccuracies and suggest amendments/ redrafting, often working to tight timescales
• Assist with file reviewing and case checking of our immigration/ asylum cases
• Depending on business need/ availability, opportunities for direct involvement/ management of caseload
• Work closely with both the Leadership and Management teams on any identified pieces of work, as demand or new business requires.

Application Process
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About Citizens Advice Bolton
Citizens Advice Bolton is recognised as one of the leading legal advice organisations in the North West.

We currently deliver specialist legal advice across five categories of law (Housing, Welfare Benefits, Money Advice [Debt], Community Care and Immigration/ Asylum). We are also able to provide advice on a range of other subjects such as Employment, Family, Relationships and Consumer.

We provide our advice via multiple access points, including face-to-face, telephone and digital. Our immigration service is funded through legal aid funding and our private fee-paying service.

Despite our office base being in Bolton, we work closely with other Citizens Advice offices across Greater Manchester and act as an expert for Citizens Advice nationally on immigration/ asylum matters.

At Citizens Advice Bolton, we use a totally unique service delivery method to deliver legal advice putting it at the cutting edge of the industry. The basis of the model is getting the client’s problem to the person with the right skills as quickly as possible.

We can assist clients with a full range of services, from filling in a form to Judicial Review in almost any area of Social Welfare law.

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