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The Home Office is an organisation of around 35,000 staff. We have civil servants working across all 4 nations of the UK and overseas, and we are a major employer in many towns and cities.
The Home Office is an organisation of around 35,000 staff. We have civil servants working across all 4 nations of the UK and overseas, and we are a major employer in many towns and cities.
Whilst over 40% of our workforce is already based outside London and the South East, we are committed to further improving representation of the communities we serve. As such, we’re currently working to provide more development and promotion opportunities for those outside London and the South East, and across a wider range of professions.
In May 2021 we announced our intention to expand our regional presence by at least 1,950 roles by 2025. We plan to increase our presence in smaller cities and large towns including Stoke-on-Trent, Peterborough, Salford and Solihull. We also want to increase staff numbers in metropolitan locations and sites in the devolved administrations, including Sheffield, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh.
We’re now in the process of establishing a new Innovation Centre in Stoke-on-Trent, which will accommodate case-working roles and an asylum hub. Over the next 5 years the Stoke hub will accommodate more than 500 roles in total, bringing operational, policy and corporate functions to the city. This project will also provide a pipeline of exciting career paths for the local community, with an apprentice-first policy for hiring at junior grades.
Where would you work if you joined us?
It depends on your role. The Home Office encourages flexible working wherever possible – this includes part-time working, compressed hours, remote working, hybrid working, job sharing and part-year working. Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. As Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, a hybrid working pattern may be available where business needs allow. Applicants can always discuss working arrangements with their hiring manager if they have specific questions.
What jobs are available at your location?
Click here to search for current Home Office vacancies.
Our teams
Borders and Enforcement
Borders and Enforcement consists of two teams: Border Force and Immigration Enforcement.
- Border Force is responsible for securing the UK border and for controlling migration at ports and airports across the UK and overseas. Their aim is to protect the public through a secure border and facilitate legitimate travel and trade.
- Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government’s immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK, and disrupting the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain.
Migration and Borders Group
Homeland Security Group
The Homeland Security Group is responsible for work in the Home Office to counter terrorism and cut serious and organised crime, reducing national security risks to the UK’s people, freedoms and prosperity. The group also coordinates domestic and some overseas work on these issues across government.
Home Office Legal Advisers
Our team of Home Office Legal Advisers support the delivery of the Home Office’s aims and objectives by providing legal services to ministers and other teams across the department.
Communications Directorate
The Communications Directorate leads on the Home Office’s communication strategy and is comprised of cross-cutting functional teams focusing on:
- Newsdesk and Social Media
- Strategy, Planning and Insight
- Marketing
- Internal Communications
Customer Services
Our Customer Services team is made up of UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO)
- UKVI is responsible for making millions of decisions every year about who has the right to stay in the country. They place a firm emphasis on national security and aim to provide world-class customer service to the millions of people who come to the UK legally each year.
- HMPO is responsible for providing accurate and secure records relating to passport services and civil registration in England and Wales. Every year they issue over six million passports to British nationals living in the UK and overseas.
Asylum and Protection
The Asylum and Protection team is responsible for providing accommodation and support for refugees and asylum seekers including families and children. They are also responsible for the UK’s resettlement programmes and managing casework for rights-based immigration and protection cases.
STARS
STARS (Science, Technology, Analysis, Research and Strategy) brings together Home Office teams covering Science, Analysis and Insight, Strategy, Transformation, Sponsorship, Border Security and Data. STARS works to ensure that the department is able to use available data and evidence to direct our resources effectively and deliver better outcomes for the public
Corporate Enablers
The Corporate Enablers team works closely with Home Office policy and operational commands so that the department can deliver on its priorities. The team has wide-ranging responsibilities including Human Resources, Estates, IT and Digital Services, Finance and Commercial roles.
Public Safety Group
The Public Safety Group is responsible for a range of policy areas including Fire, Policing and Crime Reduction. The group is also delivering a new communication system that will replace the current Airwave service used by the emergency services in Great Britain, and driving policy on issues such as Modern Slavery, Child Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Abuse and Violence Against Women and Girls.