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Current Vacancies

Senior Adviser/Senior Caseworker- 37 hours per week- funded for 3 years (£28,000 per annum)

We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Adviser to support asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Solihull and the surrounding area. You will provide an effective and efficient immigration, welfare benefits and housing advice service to asylum seekers and refugees in Solihull and the surrounding area. As a Senior Adviser, you will be expected to deal with complex cases, support less experienced caseworkers and volunteers in the team and deputise for the Service Manager when needed. To be successful in the role, you need to have significant experience of supporting asylum seekers, refugees and other vulnerable migrants. You will need to be very familiar with immigration challenges and social issues affecting refugees, asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants.

For more information, please download the the JD & Person Specs Senior Adviser 2024

Adviser/Caseworker- 37 hours per week- funded for 1 year (£26,000 per annum)

We are seeking to recruit an Adviser to provide advice, practical support and advocacy to people seeking asylum, refugees and other vulnerable migrants in Solihull and the surrounding area. The service is focused on connecting people with information and essential services where they exist, and on providing advice, advocacy, and casework interventions where there are gaps in provision, to avoid homelessness and destitution. This involves things like helping them to apply for asylum support from the Home Office, finding legal aid funded immigration solicitors, applying for benefits, applying for housing, helping them access health care, social services provision, education, and employment, providing emotional support, providing basic immigration advice if or when accredited, etc.

For more information, please download the JD & Person Specs- Adviser 2024

To apply for any of the roles: Please complete our  Application Form and send it to: info@entraideuk.org.uk .

Application deadline: 18/12/ 2024 at 11:59pm.

Please note: Interviews will be organised on a rolling basis, and we will close this advertisement as soon as we have appointed a suitable candidate so please don’t delay applying if you think that you are the right candidate for this role.

Volunteering Opportunities

We are currently looking for a number of volunteers to support the vital work we do.

Volunteer Befrienders

Volunteer Befrienders are matched to an individual asylum seeker or refugee. The aim for the volunteer is to support the person they are matched with

• to familiarise themselves with the local area,
• to help them integrate into the local community,
• to gain access to other services and
• to help alleviate the emotional stress caused by past trauma and the present asylum process.

Time Commitment:

Volunteers must be able to spare two to three hours per week on a flexible basis and some daytime availability is preferred even at weekends. Befriender matches vary in length of time. Volunteers must be able to commit to the role for a minimum of six months, attend regular supervision sessions and attend mandatory training.

Location: We are based in Chelmsley Wood however, volunteers visit the clients in their own home so you must be prepared to travel some distance either by walking, car or public transport.

Volunteer Interpreters

Volunteer Interpreters support clients seeking advice by facilitating the flow of communication between clients with none/limited English and our advisors and where possible, interpreting written information

Time commitment : Our advisors make appointments during the week and will ask if you are free to support with interpreting. Volunteers will need to commit to regular supervision with the Volunteer Coordinator and attend mandatory training.

Languages needed :

• Arabic                                                  French
• Urdu                                                    Lingala
• Pashto                                                 Tigrinya
• Dari                                                     Kurdish
• Ukrainian                                             Russian

 Location : Entraide UK – Chelmsley Wood and Solihull.

Please email aliahussain@entraideuk.org.uk for further information and an application pack.

Fundraise For Us.

Entraide devote every financial contribution we receive to meet the needs of the people we support. We undertake various projects here in the UK and in Africa all of which require financial and human resources. If you would like to organise a fundraising event to support our work here in the UK or in Africa, please contact us on 01217881087 or by email: info@entraideuk.org.uk