Welfare Rights Adviser

2 months ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Bristol City Council Full time

**Permanent, Part Time 29.6 hours per week.**

Our Welfare Rights and Money Advice Service (WRAMAS) is looking for an experienced and dynamic Welfare Rights Adviser to join our specialist team.

This post has become available due to new funding allowing us to extend our services to provide advice to refugees.

You will join our Welfare Rights Support Service, providing specialist benefits advice to support workers across the city. Your key aim will be to maximise access to welfare benefits.

Your work will include giving telephone welfare benefits advice on our helpline for support workers, delivering training and providing representation to clients at First Tier Tribunal social security appeals. We anticipate that this will include a high proportion of universal credit, as well as fitness for work and disability benefits.

To join our team as a Welfare Rights Adviser, you need to have substantial recent advice work experience, including representing or writing submissions for claimants at benefit appeal tribunals.

You must have good knowledge of the full range of benefits legislation and caselaw. You also need to have excellent communication skills, for example to explain key aspects of welfare reform to non-specialists, and the ability to manage and progress a personal caseload.

**Why Bristol City Council?**

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

**How do I apply?**

**For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact Thomas Bidmead (Welfare Rights Coordinator) on



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