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Legal Access Team Volunteer
care4calais

Job Description

Refugees who have legal advice have a better chance of getting asylum.

We urgently need dedicated volunteers to join our legal access team and help refugees get the legal aid they are entitled to.

We believe this is one of the most important things Care4Calais has ever done as refugees lives often depend on this; being denied asylum means losing everything.

About Care4Calais:

Care4Calais is a volunteer-run charity delivering essential aid and support to refugees living in the worst conditions across Northern France and the UK.  We believe in a fair and tolerant British society and advocate for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees.

We are not politicians; we are ordinary people who believe that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. We are on the ground with the refugees every day, respectful of their common humanity and responsive to their needs.

About the Legal Access Team Volunteer Role:

Due to the training involved and the significance of this work we are looking for a commitment of 20 hours per week for a minimum of 6 months. Our Legal Access Team Volunteers are all home based.

Our Access Team of trained volunteers assist vulnerable asylum seekers in navigating the asylum process by finding them specialist solicitors and working with our volunteer interpreters to help them organise the requisite paperwork.  We currently work with 100 legal firms around the UK, providing an invaluable service to both the asylum-seeker and the overstretched legal immigration teams.

We need volunteers who are:

  • Passionate and committed to ensuring that their clients rights are upheld.
  • Able to work independently and manage their own time, sometime working to tight deadlines.
  • Organised and accurate with information, with an eye for detail when it comes to maintaining and updating client records.
  • Excellent at communicating and providing progress reports.
  • Professional and dedicated to not only representing their clients’ best interests but also Care4Calais.

You will be supported by our Legal Access Team Manager who is responsible for overseeing the quality, responsiveness and effectiveness of the Access to Legal Team.

You will be given full legal access training as you join the team and will be asked to complete a DBS check and Safeguarding training as part of this.

How to apply:

If you would like to apply please email us and someone will be in touch very soon with an application form.