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Finance, Benefit and Debt Advisor

2 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

**The Growth Company (GC)** Employment team have an exciting opportunity for a Finance, Benefit and Debt Adviser (FBD) who will deliver high performance levels, compliant activity and customer service standards on the CRS Finance, Benefit and Debt (FBD) service and support the Service Manager to ensure that service and business objectives are achieved.

**This role will be working out of the following sites, HMP Leeds and HMP Wealstun**

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Working with a caseload of participants, in both the community and Prison settings, to progress them on their journey towards accessing benefits, inclusive of adhering to the responsibilities for making claims.
- Resolving debt issues, including the establishment of debt and rent repayment plans.
- Supporting and acting as liaison between appropriate parties, such as landlords, utility suppliers, phone contractors and other creditors, banks, credit unions, and so on.
- Building strong and positive relationships with participants, enabling them to make well-informed choices and to appropriately assess sources of support, leading to the joint development of an action plan of supportive interventions.
- Being responsible for following up on service user actions to ensure that timely progress is made with these, e.g., making repayments or responding to correspondence.
- Liaising with National Probation Service officers, and completing all associated recording of these interactions, tracking and management information details, as directed, accurately and on a timely basis.
- Promoting the additional choices available to service users, for example third sector support (food banks, credit unions etc).
- Demonstrating individualised engagement and motivational skills appropriate for each participant.

**About you**:

- Ideally to have experience working in training, advice & guidance, and counselling environments.
- Working with current offenders or marginalised groups.
- Working to targets.
- Excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment and awareness of growth industries.
- Good knowledge of welfare-to-work and its customer base.
- Knowledge of guidance and national standards.
- Good rapport-building skills.
- Professional and articulate.
- Flexible and adaptable.

**Skills Required**:

- Must have previous experience case loading or working with ex-offenders or the marginalised and demotivated.
- Sound grasp of the issues of debt and the issues that may cause individuals to mis-manage their personal finances or to breach their conditions for claiming DWP / Jobcentre Plus benefits.
- The ability to work under pressure in a high-performance environment.
- Strong personable approach when working with service users.
- Flexible approach to work, including a willingness to travel.
- Willingness to work occasional unsociable hours.
- Delivering services to service users who are still in custody, inclusive of attending prisons to work face-to-face.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to £27,500.00 per year

Work Location: In person

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