Job Description
Job Title: Team Manager - Money Advice UnitLocation: CountywideStarting Salary: £43,516 with the opportunity to progress to a maximum of £48,587 (pro rata for part-time)Hours: 37 per weekContract: Fixed Term/Secondment - 2 years
As part of the application, you must answer the 4 key questions. If you do not complete this, then your application will be automatically withdrawn.
A new role and a chance to make a real difference. The cost of living crisis and the covid pandemic have created enormous new demands on the public, and the County Council is responding with new and innovative projects.
The manager will have a dual role. Firstly, they will support benefit advisers employed in Children Services and the voluntary sector who are working with care-leavers and young people in care, to ensure that benefit income is maximised. This is at present a new two-year project.
Secondly, they will be managing two new benefit advisers embedded in the Mental Health service, working alongside our existing team and their manager to provide a more comprehensive service than ever before. This is a one-year project, with the aim of establishing a longer-term service.
The post-holder will provide specialist back-up, expertise, mentoring and supervision on welfare benefit issues facing both care-leavers and people with mental health problems. They will also work with Children Services to update and formulate policy around financial support, and with the Mental Health Service to develop the financial inclusion work of NHS-employed support staff.
No formal qualifications are required but the person appointed must be confident and highly competent across these two quite diverse and specialist areas within the benefits advice field.
Are you adaptable enough to manage and balance two very different sets of demands, and prove how vital such work is - not just during this cost of living crisis but beyond? Closing Date: 28th December 2022Interview Date: 13th January 2023
