Decision Making and Appeals ao Roles

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 287552**Salary**:

- £22,845 - £22,845- National AO pay scale applies.**Job grade**:

- Administrative Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DWP - Policy Group**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Quarry House, Leeds, LS2 7UA only. No other locations will be considered.About the job

**Job summary**:
Decision Making and Appeals (DMA) is a specialist unit which manages all DWP appeals to Upper Tribunal Judges and the higher courts. We are also responsible for legal guidance published in the Decision Makers Guide (DMG) and Advice for Decision Making (ADM). Further support is provided by way of a complex case guidance service for front line decision makers.

Supporting welfare delivery is another significant area of the unit’s work. In advance of drafting legal guidance, this involves scrutinising ministerial submissions, instructions to lawyers and draft regulations to ensure that they are accurate, correctly reflect case law and reflect policy intent.

The DMA is a Directorate within Policy Group and has over 60 staff based in Quarry House, Leeds. The role involves working collaboratively as part of a close team to provide administrative support to DMA business ensuring service delivery standards are met by demonstrating excellent communication and prioritising skills.

**Job description**:
Duties include maintaining targets by ensuring appeal work is registered accurately on e-case and passed to relevant DMA colleagues or handed off to relevant stakeholders within set timescales. This is achieved by:

- Actively follow up on appeal cases, consulting relevant internal and external colleagues as necessary.
- Ensure Oral Hearing diary is monitored to check that all necessary action has been taken in advance of the oral hearing date. Liaising with Legal Services as required.
- Maintain clerical and electronic records accurately.
- Proactively address and resolve colleague and stakeholder issues helpfully, promptly and accurately.
- Provide support to Publications work.
- Undertake ad-hoc stationery/stockholder duties.

**People development activities**:
Participation in regular performance discussions with your line manager to develop skills and behaviours, and actively engage in development to understand the wider work of the unit through time spent in technical teams publication activities and shadowing Authors.

**Person specification**:

- Strong verbal and written skills
- Good organisation skills
- An eye for accuracy
- Confidence using various Microsoft Products including Outlook, Word and Excel

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

**Additional Location Information**:
Please be aware these roles can only be worked in the UK and not overseas and your office base must be the following Policy Group Hub:

- Quarry House, Leeds, LS2 7UA

This role is largely office based with minimum hybrid work due to its nature. Appeal files from HMCTS must be filed and stored securely within the unit.

The Department is committed to promoting flexible ways of working, whilst enabling the business to operate at maximum efficiency.

Certain job roles may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

The corporate hub location will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to your designated place of work or contractual Terms and Conditions.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.You will know within a few minutes if you have been successful at test stage.

You will then be invited to provide a CV Career History. We will use this for background and context. It will not be score



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