Senior Associate - Immigration

Harrison Clark Rickerbys; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A law firm is seeking an experienced Immigration Lawyer to join their Employment and Immigration Team. The role involves leading the growth of personal immigration services, advising on various immigration issues, and contributing to business development. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of PQE in immigration law and a collaborative approach. The firm offers a supportive environment, allowing for personal and career development across their offices in the UK, with a range of benefits including private medical insurance and a bonus scheme.

Benefits

Income protection

Private medical insurance

Bonus scheme

27 days annual leave

Gym membership contribution

Life assurance

Qualifications

• 7+ years or more PQE, exceptional candidates with less considered.
• Strong background in individual immigration.
• Ability to lead growth in personal immigration services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the growth of personal immigration offerings.
• Advise on business and individual immigration issues.
• Collaborate with colleagues to share immigration knowledge.
• Contribute to business development and networking opportunities.
• Support and train junior team members.

Skills

Immigration expertise

Teamwork

Business development

Client relationship management

Commercial acumen

Attention to detail

Education

7+ years PQE

Solid grounding in immigration work

Job description

About The Role

We are looking for an Immigration Lawyer to join our well-established Employment and Immigration Team. The 40+ strong team offers specialist advice on the full range of employment issues, and our immigration experts provide support for both business and personal immigration matters.

We are looking to grow our immigration services to individuals, tapping into streams of work across the firm and through wider business development. This is therefore a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to lead on personal immigration work across the firm’s 10 offices. It is a key position within the national team as you will be an important part of the continued growth of our offering. We offer a supportive environment where you can grow your business, whilst having the guidance and expertise of the wider team.

You can be based in either our Central England office in Northampton, or our Birmingham office, but you will be expected to travel to our other offices, particularly London and our Thames Valley office in Reading. However, dependent on experience and for the right candidate, we would consider a London base.

What we need you to do :

• Lead the growth of our personal immigration offering across the firm
• Advise on a range of issues across business and individual immigration, with focus on individual immigration.
• Develop and maintain knowledge on issues withinimmigration, working collaboratively with colleagues across the whole team to share knowledge.
• Contribute to business development opportunities and identify networking opportunities internally and externally, marketing and cross selling
• Support and train junior members of the team.

About You

You will need :

7+ years or more PQE, although exceptional candidates with less PQE who can demonstrate strength and depth of experience will be considered.

A solid grounding inimmigration work, particularly individual immigration

The ability to grow our individual immigration offering through business development and working alongside relevant organisations

An ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and successfully manage client relationships

Excellent technical ability and drafting skills

To demonstrate teamwork and relationship building skills

To have strong commercial acumen

To be proactive, ambitious and organised with a keen eye for detail

About Us

Benefits of working with us :

IncomeProtection

Private MedicalInsurance

Sight tests / Glasses discounts

Bonus scheme

Electric vehicle scheme

Scottish Widows Pension Scheme

27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)

Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal

Cycle to Work scheme

Life Assurance

1 / 3 gym membership contribution

Flu vaccinations

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership

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