Bupa
Immigration Compliance Adviser
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Job Description:
Immigration Compliance Advisor – Fixed Term
Kirkstall Forge, Leeds LS5 3BF
Hybrid – up to 3 days WFH
Fixed Term 12 months
Full time 37.5 hours per week
Salary from £28,400 depending on experience
Grade A12
We make health happen
Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
The Role
This is a great opportunity to start your career in a HR and Immigration compliance role and with our friendly and supportive People Services team in our Leeds office. Being part of the UK Support functions, they are at the backbone of our UK operations.
You will be responsible for ensuring Bupa maintains full compliance with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Sponsor Licence requirements relating to sponsored workers, with a key focus on the salary and payroll compliance requirements recently introduced by the Home Office across the Care Services business.
How you’ll help us make health happen
- Develop and manage processes to ensure sponsored employees/associates are paid in accordance with UKVI salary thresholds throughout their sponsorship.
- Monitor salary/earnings/ for all sponsored employees on a weekly/monthly basis.
- Review rostering data on a weekly basis to ensure corrections are completed when discrepancies are identified.
- Ongoing education on the importance of UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Sponsor Licence requirements relating to sponsored workers.
- Develop reporting mechanisms to identify potential salary compliance risks before breaches occur.
- Monitor and Investigate payroll anomalies, underpayments, salary deductions, unpaid leave, changes in working patterns, or other factors that could affect sponsorship compliance.
- Liaise with Payroll, Healthroster and HR teams to implement corrective actions.
- Produce regular compliance dashboards evidencing we are meeting UKVI requirements.
- Maintain audit trails evidencing salary compliance throughout the sponsorship period.
- Recommend enhancements to systems, reporting, and compliance monitoring frameworks to support compliance with UK Visas and Immigration.
- Ensure all required notifications, updates, and reporting obligations to the Home Office are completed accurately and within prescribed timescales which may impact a reduction in earnings.
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Key Accountabilities
- Ensuring sponsored workers remain compliant with UKVI salary requirements.
- Maintaining accurate and auditable sponsorship records.
- Identifying and mitigating sponsorship compliance risks.
- Supporting the protection and retention of Bupa’s Sponsor Licences.
- Providing assurance that payroll practices satisfy Home Office salary compliance requirements.
You
- Understanding of payroll processes.
- Data Analysis & Reporting.
- Audit & Compliance Monitoring.
- Systems & Reporting Expertise.
- Risk Management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A collaborative team player, able to work autonomously.
- Confident stakeholder management skills.
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Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
You’ll receive the following benefits and more:
- 25 days holiday pro rata, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
- Various other benefits and online discounts.
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
People & HR
Locations:
Kirkstall Forge
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