Migrant Help have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Client Adviser to join our team!
Location: Birmingham
Contract: 12 Month Fixed term (with potential to be extended or made permanent)
Salary: £29,498 - Increasing to £33,590 following successful completion of a 6 months probation period
About us:
Migrant Help is a leading charity that has been established for over 60 years and delivers a range of support and advice services to migrants across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable migrants, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.
The Client Adviser role:
Part of the Asylum Services team, the Client Adviser is a rewarding role at Migrant Help which forms part of the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility (AIRE) contract. Based in Birmingham, you will support our national Asylum Service to support vulnerable asylum seekers across the UK through telephone and face to face advice. This is a busy and high paced working environment with regular changes to needs and priorities, by working with the Regional Assistant Manager and re-prioritising your work, you will be rewarded by seeing how your efforts positively impact our clients.
Key responsibilities of our Client Adviser:
- Work as part of the national team, provide support to asylum seekers within all accommodation types across the UK
- Support Asylum Seekers to complete applications when required, ensuring forms are completed accurately, with the correct level of detail and within required KPIs and timescales
- Provide detailed induction briefings to new arrivals in Initial Accommodation, provide them with advice and guidance around the asylum process, asylum support and their obligations
- Work as part of the regional team to ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements,
- Health and Safety standards, policies, and procedures, provide the correct advice and guidance to all who require our support
- Ensure that all applicants are aware of eligibility criteria and their obligations to provide supporting evidence within the required timescales
- Assist clients to notify the authority of prescribed change of circumstances
The experience and skills you need to become our Client Adviser:
- Provided a service to clients face to face or over the phone whose first language is not always English
- Provided advice an information within an organization and working with people in sensitive and emotionally demanding situations
- Proven experience of delivering complex information to clients with and without interpreters
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
- Operational experience working to challenging performance KPI's
- The ability to work empathetically with people facing transition and uncertainty.
- The ability to learn quickly and adapt to change
Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide a service to, applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process therefore:
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
This post is subject to a Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) therefore applicants must:
- Be able to provide a valid passport eg. 10 year full British passport, EU or non-EU Passport with indefinite leave to remain
- Be able to provide continuous UK address history for the previous 5 years
- Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment
These are some of the benefits we offer:
- Our working week is 35 hours per week offering flexibility and work life balance
- Enhanced family friendly provisions
- Employees will gain an extra day annual leave per year to a maximum of 39 days, including bank holidays (pro-rata).
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
- Access to Perkbox, an employee rewards and benefits platform with over 9,000 deals and discounts, a range of free perks, employee wellbeing support and other additional employee benefits and recognitions.
- Wellbeing support.
- Migrant Help offers employees a non-contributory pension scheme Migrant Help pays 8% worth of employee salary into the pension scheme.
Closing Date: 8th August 2025
If you are interested in becoming our new Client Adviser, please click 'APPLY' today. We look forward to hearing from you!
As part of your role, it is important you operate within Migrant Help’s values: Protection, Diversity, Equality, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence.
Migrant Help is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
