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We are seeking an enthusiastic, committed and experienced Welfare Rights Supervisor to join our Welfare Rights Team. We are also looking for a caseworker. Hours for both roles can be flexible.

Supervisor

Islington Law Centre is looking to recruit an experienced Welfare Rights Supervisor to join our respected Welfare Rights team.

We are seeking a practitioner with experience in the full range of benefits work with particular expertise in Universal Credit and disability benefit matters.

The successful applicant will be joining a team of 5 welfare rights advisers.  As well as managing your own caseload including representation at Tribunals, you will use your expertise to provide training and second-tier advice to partners and community organisations and will be able to take an active role with the team in developing our service.

Salary £40,100 pa plus 3% auto enrolment pension.

Caseworker

We are also looking for a caseworker to engage in face-to-face and remote client work covering the full range of welfare rights issues from application to upper Tribunal level. Hours can be flexible above a minimum of 21 hours per week.

Salary £34,157 pa pro rata plus 3% auto enrolment pension.

• Welfare Rights Supervisor JD PS 1 April 2022
• Welfare Rights Caseworker JD PS 1 April 2022
• Information for Applicants April 2022 Welfare Rights
• ILC Covering Letter April 2022 Welfare Rights Supervisor
• ILC Application Form Welfare Rights Supervisor
• ILC Application Form Welfare Rights Caseworker
• Equality Monitoring Form

Please download the relevant application pack above.

Please include the application form and EO monitoring form. Please also make clear whether you are applying for the Supervisor role, Caseworker role, or both. CVs are not accepted.

Closing date for applications:  Monday 2^nd of May 2022 at 5.00pm. Interviews will be held week commencing 9^th of May 2022.

We are delighted to announce our friends at UCL’s Chamber Choir and Players will be holding a Christmas Concert in support of us on the 4^th of December. Conducted by Charles Peebles, the programme includes works by Mozart, Händel, Maw and Anderson and promises to be a wonderful night of sumptuous sound.

The concert takes place at the Church of St Mary le Strand, WC2R 1ES at 7.00pm. Tickets are £5.00 either on the door or through Eventbrite and all proceeds go to Islington Law Centre. The event has been very popular in the past so booking through Eventbrite is recommended.

We’re very grateful to the musicians staging this wonderful event and we hope to see many of you there to enjoy the music and get into the Christmas spirit!

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/decemberconcert

The Migrants Law Project, which is hosted by Islington law Centre, has just released the first in a series of podcasts, “It Can Be Done”, which shows the impact of co-ordinating efforts to make a real difference to people’s lives.

Episode One opens in 2015. We meet Kotaiba, a 15 year old Syrian refugee who finds himself in Calais looking for a safe way to reach his brother and sister in the UK. Meanwhile, across the Channel, two English observers watch in horror as Europe’s refugee crisis unfolds: asylum seekers and migrants living in makeshift camps with no sanitation or decent shelter, violence at borders, families drowning at sea. What if anything is to be done? And could there potentially be a legal solution? 

The link is here – it’s a powerful story and we urge you to take a listen. https://themigrantslawproject.org/podcast/

We are delighted that a group of our volunteers is organising a Christmas
Concert to celebrate the work of the Law Centre and to help us with our
Christmas appeal.  The UCL Chamber Choir and Players, conducted by Charles
Peebles, will perform a number of works at St Mary le Strand on 10
December 2018.  We are extremely grateful to them for supporting our work
in this way.

The concert will be a great opportunity to listen to wonderful music, and
to find out a little more about our work.  Tickets are free and are
available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-concert-tickets-52553030529

Donations to our Christmas Appeal to help us to help more people can be
made here:
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=IslingtonLawCentreChristmasappeal&pageUrl=11

Our Welfare Benefits Team is currently recruiting for new volunteers!

As a volunteer paralegal with Islington Law Centre’s Welfare Benefits Team, you will support caseworkers in all aspects of their work: including dealing with correspondence, preparing appeal bundles, recording statistical information, case file management and policy work.  Training, close supervision & support will be provided.

You will be given the opportunity to shadow caseworkers at client interviews and Tribunal hearings, and be involved in various community events.

You will play a key role in our weekly form filling clinic, assisting clients to complete complex welfare benefit application forms.

We hope volunteering at the Law Centre will provide an interesting and valuable experience within a friendly and supported environment.

Travel expenses and lunch will be paid.

Requirements: we ask that you be available to volunteer for at least two days per week and must be available on Wednesday’s.

If you are interested in applying for this position please complete the following application and email it to Barbara King (barbarak@islingtonlaw.org.uk),

The deadline to apply is 6 January 2016.