ATLEU (London) – Community Lawyer (Immigration)
Job Term: Permanent
Location: London
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week) or part time. Flexible, job share and hybrid working arrangements available. (This role may involve some occasional evening and weekend working including one Sunday a month for a six month period, but time will be given back within the week if this occurs.)
Salary: £36,922 – £41,767 full time or pro-rata. This includes London weighting of £6,500.
The salary offered will be based on ATLEU’s salary scale and will take into account legal qualifications, PQE, accreditation, status as a litigator as well as other work experience relevant to this role, at the time of appointment.
Pension: 7% employer pension contribution
Benefits: Clinical supervision, individual training budget, staff discount scheme and personal wellbeing account.
Leave: 25 days a year + 8 bank holidays (33 days/year) with an increase of one day per year for each year of complete service, capped at 30 days + bank holidays per year (38 days).
Probation period: Six months
Reports to: Immigration Unit Lead
We are recruiting an immigration lawyer to take up the exciting new role of Community Lawyer within ATLEU.
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering our community lawyering strategy to bring about meaningful change with and for survivors of human trafficking and exploitation.
The community lawyer will build relationships and work alongside community and survivor led organisations so that ATLEU:
- Understands communities’ needs, the systemic issues they face and their priorities and goals
- Shares legal knowledge, skills and resources which help to empower communities to advocate for themselves
- Delivers advice in a way that best reaches survivors where they are
- Co-produces litigation strategies with communities to bring strategic challenges that tackle systemic injustice and support and amplify community campaigns.
Application process
For more information about this exciting new role, please download our job pack.
We will be holding an online information session on Tuesday 3 February at 1pm for potential applicants to find out more about this role. Details on how to book your place will be available here shortly.
The deadline for applications is 9am on Thursday 19 February 2026. Applications received after this time will not be considered.
To apply, email your CV, a covering letter, and an Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form to us at recruitment@atleu.org.uk Quote “Job Ref: 2026/ Community Lawyer” in the subject of your email.