team leader
Responsibility
- job title Welfare Adviser Team Leader
- ● Provide up to date, high quality welfare benefits advice to service users, including representation at tribunals
- 21-35 hours per week – to be agreed
Show more +17 - £25,000 to £28,000 per year full time hours dependent on experience
- ● Write mandatory reconsideration requests and in some cases write appeal submissions
- ● Carrying out any other duties as required
- ● Provide effective line management
- fixed term for 12 months from start date
- ● Signpost and refer to other agencies for further advocacy and support as required, following up referrals as necessary
- choice of freelance or employed basis
- opportunity for agile working
- ● Manage a caseload of individuals seeking welfare advice delivering tailored support for them
- ● Maintain appropriate records of work undertaken using an appropriate system and in line with GDPR
- ● Build and maintain a directory of local support and intervention partners establishing inward and outward referral processes
- ● Deliver welfare workshops advising colleagues of changes to welfare legislation as required
- ● Participating in regular team meetings and events & participating in other advice and staff team commitments, supervision, core trainings and meetings as necessary including sharing welfare knowledge
- ● Design, maintain and monitor the effectiveness of client welfare services and processes via evaluation and the gathering of data
- ● Contribute to welfare benefits related publicity material, social media, reports for the trustees and other stakeholders as required
- ● Provision of management support to others providing advice and frontline services including identification of training needs
- ● Assist with funding applications/tender bids by providing basic factual information to the CEO to enable them to apply for funding and write funding/tender applications
Requirements
- excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex information in simple and easy to understand terms
- personal resilience and the ability to maintain clear professional boundaries and manage expectations
- experience of providing high quality welfare advice to a diverse range of clients
Show more +5 - ability to monitor and report against targets
- ability to take the initiative, work independently, plan and organise own work and meet deadlines
- good understanding of Eastern European communities
- able to speak an Eastern European language as well as English
- leading and managing within Welfare sector: 1 year
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