Financial Wellbeing Practitioner

Job Description

Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, working from council buildings, working in service user’s locations and site visits and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

The Maximise Angus! project will involve work with schools and education colleagues to develop and normalise advice to families and contribute towards the reduction in child poverty in the Angus area.

You will  will be required to advise, assist and represent clients in all matters relating to benefits and debt.  You will manage a caseload of a mixture of benefit and debt cases.

This will include dealing with families in financial crisis. You may be required to deliver training and to mentor other staff members in the team.  You will also be required to carry out outreach work and co-location.  

This job is temporary for up to 23 months from date of appointment.

Internal and external applications on a secondment basis will be considered.  You must have the approval of your line manager / organisation.

Please note interviews will be held Tuesday, 27 August 2024.

Requirements

You must have the ability to obtain a satisfactory Basic Disclosure Certificate.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.