Welfare Rights Officer
- Full time or Part time
- £25,500 – £27,200
- Edinburgh and surrounding area
- Closing 18th July 2023
- Advertised from 23rd June 2023
- 30 – 35.75 FT hours over 4 or 5 days. This is a contract until 31st March 2025 (with the option to extend beyond March 2025 subject to further funding being secured).
Role
Into Work
Into Work provides a holistic wraparound supported employment service to disabled and neurodivergent people and those with health conditions, across Edinburgh and the surround. Our projects and services are person-centred and our approach follows the social model of disability.
Co-production is at the heart of what we do; we work with people who have lived experience of disability to help design and shape our projects and services. The aim is to remove common barriers to work and support people towards and into fair and financially sustainable jobs. To help achieve our aims, we have a dedicated Financial Inclusion Service (FIS) available on a 1:1 basis to all clients, covering benefits, income maximisation and cost of living. We also deliver workshops and offer benefits awareness training to external and partner frontline staff.
The base for this role is Norton Park, 57 Albion Road. Edinburgh. It involves hybrid working – remotely from home online and in-person in the community and the office.
The Role
2023 sees Into Work reach 30 years of successful operation. As well as those we support, at Into Work we are committed to the well-being and development of our staff. They are the key to our success and have helped us to deliver services and grow into the flexible, specialist provider we are.
At this exciting time, as we expand our Financial Inclusion Service, Into Work is looking for an experienced Welfare Rights Officer to work alongside our Welfare Rights Lead in providing advice on benefits and conducting comprehensive overall household financial assessments on expenditure and maximising income – including discount schemes and grants/funds available to address the cost-of-living crisis.
The aim is to remove financial barriers to employment, such as anxiety and poverty, including in-work poverty and to create opportunity for those we support. The purpose is to help people feel empowered and confident; able to choose to focus on and consider work, including better work.
This service also delivers impactful workshops to people in the community and to others in support roles. It is adaptable, to suit the needs of the attendees. The post holder would be expected to conduct 1:1 client meetings and workshop delivery. This includes travelling within Edinburgh and also the surrounding area.
About You
We are looking for someone who is empathetic and committed to equality, with recent experience of delivering welfare rights advice on both in and out of work benefits, disability benefits, income maximisation and current cost of living funds. Someone confident in completing full benefit assessments, better off in work calculations, appealing decisions and on potentially representing to tribunal level.
You will need to be organised, flexible and articulate, able to provide a high-quality, professional service online, via phone and in person and become comfortable with the delivery of our group workshops. We’d also like you to be adaptable and happy to respond to new opportunities in line with the development of Into Work’s Financial Inclusion Service.
What’s in it for you?
In return you can expect us to support you to enhance your skill and experience through training and development. We believe this role may suit you if you have the above experience and you are looking for something perhaps a bit different. There is team-working and collaboration with other project colleagues as well as autonomy, variety and opportunity for creativity and helping develop the service as it grows. You can also expect a supportive and progressive working environment which reflects our values of openness, flexibility, perseverance and collaboration.
We hold a silver Investor in People award and are committed to the continuous improvement and development of our employees.
We are also a Living Wage accredited employer and a Disability Confident Leader.
As an Into Work employee you will also benefit from:
- A generous starting annual leave entitlement of 34 days, increasing to 37 days with length of service (pro-rated for part time employees).
- Employer pension contribution of 7.5%.
- Access to death in service scheme.
- Enhanced company sick pay.
- Paid carers leave.
- Free and confidential employee assistance program and services for employees.
- Access to cycle to work and Techscheme discounts.
Application notes
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About us
We're one of Scotland's oldest charities - for more than two centuries, we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We're proud of all we've achieved in the past - but we have our sights set firmly on the future.
We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking for people who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment and enthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.
You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.
About you
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you would need some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you have knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.
The role
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will be lone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their own living environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent, high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supported to develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
You will be asked:
• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and Performance Development Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safety responsibilities.
• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegated group of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.
• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.
• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.
• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills and abilities to achieve identified outcomes.
• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.
• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.
• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.
• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from the service provided.
• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.
What is on offer? What do we offer?
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• In-house Mental Health First Aiders.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
• Death in service benefit
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