- Job Title: Public Lawyer
- Location: London or Sheffield (will involve occasional travel between offices)
- Salary: £38,423 to £40,561 p/a pro rata (inclusive of London weighting) depending on experience. [£23,053 to £24,336 for 21 hours per week] – £32,423 to £34,561 p/a pro rata (Sheffield) depending on experience [£19,453 to 20,736 for 21 hours per week].
- Hours: Part time (21 hours per week).
About ATLEU
With significant changes to trafficking, modern slavery and immigration law and policy, this is a critical time for survivors of trafficking and labour exploitation in the UK. Legal advice is an essential component in obtaining the support, safety and redress that survivors need to move forward. ATLEU works intensively with survivors over several years often assisting with multiple matters, helping to regularise their immigration status, obtain identification as a victim of trafficking, access treatment, support and appropriate housing, enforce employment rights and claim compensation.
You will be part of a very friendly multidisciplinary legal team, working alongside immigration, public law and compensation lawyers. We hold regular supervision, unit and team meetings to bring people together. We have a monthly team lunch and create opportunities for socialising and connection with everyone who works at ATLEU.
We have an office in London and Sheffield and each team is spread across the two, so we work closely
together from both locations. This role can be based in either office.
You will have a personal training budget for external courses that support your work and access to all
our own training opportunities. You will learn with lots of support around you from other colleagues. You will be able to feed into policy change and strategic litigation as part of the team.
Our lived experience work is led by the ATLEU Changemakers group. This year we launched a 12 month employment opportunity for two migrant survivors of trafficking at ATLEU. We co-convene the ‘Lived Experience Coalition’ which is a group that brings together people who are working in lived experience spaces across the anti-trafficking sector, to share best practice. We are committed to developing ways for people with lived experience of trafficking and migration to participate in ATLEU’s governance, including joining ATLEU’s board of trustees. The Changemakers group recently co-produced ATLEU’s five year strategy.
We value each person as an individual, recognising and respecting the wide range of opinions, cultures, lifestyles, and circumstances that make us unique. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment where all employees feel valued, supported, and empowered to thrive. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, and we are dedicated to ensuring that respect and inclusion are at the heart of our workplace culture.
About the candidate and role
Casework
We are looking for a lawyer to join our team to do public law casework. This is a maternity cover role for 12 months, working 21 hours a week. You will be a lawyer with at least 2 years PQE and an authorised litigator. You can be based out of our London or Sheffield office.
This role will be based within our “Housing and Support Unit”, alongside two paralegals, one public law and immigration solicitor who is also our Head of Unit and Strategic Litigation Lead, and a housing solicitor. You will have a small caseload of your own, which may include a few inherited cases, and then take on new work. You will support others in your unit with their casework. An interest in collaborative work is important, as often you may “co-work” on a case with other colleagues. The unit does exciting and interesting work that makes a real difference to individuals and seeks to make strategic change through ATLEU casework or through working with colleagues in the sector to support their cases. All of your casework will relate to survivors of trafficking. This may involve casework to do with the identification as a survivor at reasonable or conclusive grounds decision stage in the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), about the needs of a survivor for accommodation and support from the Home Office, disqualification from protection as a survivor in the NRM or challenging decisions on temporary leave to remain as a survivor of trafficking. If you have already worked with survivors, it will be a chance to develop your existing knowledge and skills. If you are new to working with survivors, you will be able to gain experience in a fascinating and constantly developing area of potential challenges.
We are interested in hearing from applicants who also have experience doing immigration casework and ideally, accreditation as an immigration caseworker under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme or registration with the Immigration Advice Authority. However, this is not an essential criterion, and the casework focus of the role is public law more broadly. Having immigration knowledge will be a plus as our challenges are often for people with insecure status, and may be about leave to remain granted to survivors of trafficking. However, you will be interested in working on public law cases that will not just be about an individual’s immigration status.
It is not necessary to be a category supervisor for legal aid purposes, as we are not seeking those responsibilities with this role. However, you will be working with more junior colleagues and supporting their development as they work alongside you. We are open to applications from people who have greater than 2 years’ PQE. Our salary band would cover the right candidate up to 4 years’ PQE.
We are looking for someone who has experience in advice and representation in judicial review cases, pre and post issue of judicial review claims, and would be interested to hear about the nature and breadth of your experience in your application.
We welcome applications from solicitors, Chartered Legal Executives and barristers but the successful applicant will be able to act as an authorised litigator.
Range of experience
We welcome candidates with different levels of experience, and applicants who have not worked extensively with survivors of trafficking but are interested to learn more about doing so. We are looking for someone with experience of providing high quality advice, trauma informed working and client care. The salary for the role will reflect the legal qualifications and experience of the successful candidate within the bracket we are advertising.
Your background
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. We believe that diversity drives innovation, strengthens our teams, and leads to better outcomes for everyone. We particularly welcome applicants from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, such as individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities and people with lived experience of migration and trafficking.
The deadline for applications is
9am on Wednesday 24th June 2026.
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