Financial Wellbeing and Energy Advice Worker
- Full time
- £30,230 – £36,710
- Any CHAS site
- Closing 6th February 2024
- Advertised from 29th January 2024
- Fixed term until end of March 2026 - Full -Time (37.5 hours per week)
Role
Caring for a child with a life shortening condition can bring with it unexpected financial responsibilities which may lead to poverty and hardship. These include increased care costs, increased energy costs and the possibility of a parent needing to stop working to become a fulltime carer.
Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) have recently been awarded grant funding from British Gas Energy Trust (BGET) for the next two years to develop a team who will support families across Scotland during the cost of living crisis.
Recruitment to these exciting new posts will further enhance the support CHAS provides at an extremely difficult time families.
We are currently recruiting financial wellbeing and energy advice workers, who will work directly with families to provide comprehensive financial wellbeing advice (including energy), to maximise the money available to them.
As a Financial Wellbeing Advisor, you will be joining an enthusiastic, energetic, experienced, and supportive team, with a collaborative and hardworking culture. You will work as part of our existing Family Support Teams in our two hospices (Rachel House and Robin House), as well as our teams in Inverness and Aberdeen.
Benefits
- Option to opt into generous pension scheme
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Regular facilitated supervision sessions
- Employee assistance programme
The CHAS service:
- Two children’s hospices, Robin House, Balloch and Rachel House, Kinross.
- An Outreach Service providing support to children and families in their own homes, hospitals and communities across Scotland
- Co-partnership working with Scotland’s three children’s hospitals
The job:
The role of the financial wellbeing and energy advice worker is to maximise the money available to families of children with life-shortening conditions. The post holder will do this through 1-to-1 support for individual family members, covering income maximisation, benefits advice, money advice and energy advice, which will maximise the money available to the families, ensuring that their financial wellbeing is being addressed. They will provide information about the benefits systems, undertaking casework, supporting applications to benevolent societies and trusts, advising and providing families with impartial advice and information on energy efficiency and signposting to specialist services where required. This will be done through;
- Service delivery
- Leadership
- Key contact with external organisations and partners
- Volunteer engagement
More information can be found in the attached job description and list of benefits.
If you wish to have an informal conversation, please contact Nicky Bridges, Associate Director for Outreach (01389 722063 nickybridges@chas.org.uk).
Application notes
To apply please visit our website
Closing Date: Tuesday 06 February 2024
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- Hybrid: Edinburgh, office (60% min) and from home base.
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