Rightsjobs
Welfare benefit advisers - Take Up
Organisation: Every Pound Counts - Lambeth Council's take up campaign
35 hours per week. (Applications for part time work will be considered) £16-21 per hour (equivalent to £27,000 to £30,000 per annum depending on placement and skills)
Location: Lambeth
Deadline: 13/07/2009
We have 3 placement opportunities for Welfare Benefit Take Up Advisers -
- 1 Temporary placement until 30th June 2010 (agency placement within Lambeth Council)
- 2 Temporary placements until 31st March 2010 (employed by Advice Agency).
Location: Lambeth, London in variety of agency placements. People interested in part time work will be considered.
Lambeth is running a 3 year take up campaign to ensure vulnerable people access to welfare benefits advice. Having secured additional funding in our final year, we are now expanding our service. If you are passionate about maximising income and have excellent skills and experience in welfare benefits work, then one of this could be the job for you.
We are looking for someone with at least one year's recent experience in welfare rights advice, including experience of providing casework. You will also support the campaign through a range of publicity and outreach activities.
We want to recruit 3 motivated benefit advisers to provide high quality benefit to people who have long health problems or disabilities, their carers (including families with ill or disabled children), and to people aged 60 and above. You will be joining an established service partnership employing 13 benefit advisers who have already raised more than £5 million. The campaign is delivered in partnership with local advice agencies and is funded by Lambeth Council and the PCT.
We have opportunities available for advisers in a range of placements within the following agencies: Lambeth Council (Vauxhall), Lambeth Law Centre (Stockwell) and in a local advice agency in Brixton.
Who can apply?
You will have a good working knowledge of Social Security Law, having at least a minimum of one years experience of providing benefit advice. You will need good IT skills. You will be willing to travel to outreach locations, visit service users in their homes when required and be able to provide excellent telephone advice.
Ideally you will have had an enhanced CRB check within the last 12 months, if you do not have a recent CRB check you must be willing to apply for one. These posts are exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. A satisfactory disclosure is required in the event of a successful application due to the nature of the duties involved.
For more information on the campaign visit Benefits advice - Every Pound Counts
If you are interested please email your CV to jcharris@lambeth.gov.uk
Please confirm which placements you are interested in and if you are interested in part time employment the number of days you are available.
