Legal Officer First-tier Tribunal; Immigration and Asylum Chamber

Overview

General Information
Salary £40,014 - £42,859 | Working Pattern:
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share, Flexible Working
Vacancy Approach:
External

Location:

Feltham
Region:
London
Closing Date: 03-Feb-2026
Post Type:
Permanent
Civil Service Grade: HEO
Number of jobs available: 1
Reserve List: 12 Months
Job

Job description

Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going. Our Legal Officers play a critical role in helping deliver justice. If you’re intent on serving the public by delivering excellent service, and are enthusiastic about working with the judiciary, then this role gives you the opportunity to play a pivotal role within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS).

About Us

Part of HMCTS, the Tribunals Directorate is responsible for the effective administration of Tribunals in England and Wales and non-devolved Tribunals in Scotland and Northern Ireland. We work with an independent judiciary across a wide range of jurisdictions to provide a fair, efficient and effective justice system.

Your role

Working within a Regional Hearing Centre (RHC), you will support the effective administration of Tribunals’ business on a national scale by undertaking a range of complex case work and assessment activity in order to determine how best to advance caseloads and remove any barriers to effective and timely case progression.

Working independently with the support of a wider team, you will make informed decisions on how best to process appeals allowing all better access to justice. Under the supervision of a Senior Legal Officer and leadership judiciary, the Legal Officer will make case management decisions as part of their delegated judicial powers. A Legal Officer will liaise with key stakeholders and HMCTS colleagues to ensure the effective administration of justice.

We would like to highlight that this is an office-based position, and the successful candidate will be expected to attend the following office in person:

Hatton Cross Immigration and Asylum Tribunal Hearing Centre, 2-3 Dukes Green Ave, Feltham TW14 0LR

About you

Are you able to reflect on an issue and take an informed and impartial approach to your work, making evidence-based decisions? If you do, this varied and challenging role is for you.

A confident communicator and decision maker, you will use your skills and abilities to effectively work and engage with all court users. You’ll understand the importance of impartial decision making, and the need to understand a wide range of information ’ll have the ability to communicate with multiple levels of stakeholders internal and external to the Tribunal, with varying communication methods and the ability to adapt your communication to your audience.

A law degree or equivalent technical experience is desirable.

The Equivalent Technical Experience Has Been Defined As: The demonstration of a transferable decision-making aptitude, working within a set framework or guidance and previous precedents, under a form of supervision.

New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum. These operational roles are customer facing, requiring successful applicants to be office based to provide HMCTS services to the public. Non-contractual hybrid working may be available, but we cannot facilitate requests for a particular work-from-home/working-in-the-office schedule.

Standard full-time working hours are 37 hours per week. HMCTS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, provided they meet the demands of the role and business needs and are agreed prior to appointment. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ Flexible Working policy.

Candidates who are successful at sift and invited to interview will have the opportunity to attend a Question and Answer session before the interviews commence to find out more about the role and the assessment process.

For this post, occasional travel to other sites may be required.

Working Arrangements & Further Information

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