SHELTER HOUSING AID AND RESEARCH PROJECT (LEICESTER)
Financial Resilience Adviser
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Number Of Positions
3
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Salary
£32,585.37 plus £5,023 London Weighting if applicable
Working Hours
35
Location
London
Closing Date
07/10/2026
Job Category
Housing Advice
Region / Division
Shelter
Directorate
Services - Community Services, National Services and TOAS
Job Introduction
Salary: Grade 3 - £32,585 per annum plus £5,023 London Weighting if applicable
Contract: Fixed term until 23rd April 2028
Location: Either London or Sheffield
Hours: 35 per week – Full time
Closing date: Wednesday 7th October 2026 at 11.30pm
Join Shelter as a Financial Resilience Adviser in our mission to drive systemic change and fight for housing justice. At a time when the housing emergency continues to deepen, your experience could help transform lives and challenge the systems that perpetuate injustice. Come and play a central role in our mission to defend the right to a safe, and secure home. Working with Shelter means being part of a passionate team that believes a safe home is a fundamental right. Here, your skills don’t just change lives - they shape a fairer housing system.
About The Role
Delivering advice and advocacy in a variety of community settings, you will provide casework on debt, along with housing and welfare benefits, ensuring that quality assurance and standards are met in all areas and that you keep your own knowledge up to date. Identifying systemic issues by gathering evidence and developing insight will be crucial to bringing about the change we need, as well as working with a variety of stakeholders, building relationships locally and working collaboratively to achieve shared outcomes.
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About You
- You have demonstrable experience of providing debt advice and related advice on housing and welfare, in line with current legislation
- Experience supporting people with multiple disadvantages.
- You are able to manage your caseload and meet deadlines
- You have effective communication skills and technical skills, using IT programmes to communicate and record client data.
- Everything you do will be in line with safeguarding procedures, our anti – racism goals and Equality and Diversity policies and practices.
Benefits
- We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
About The Team
This role will be part of our ongoing work with our Hero Partner which aims to build financial resilience and break the cycles that lead to financial exclusion and poor financial health negatively impacting people’s housing situations. With the ongoing cost of living crisis, we provide support to people in financial crisis and build resilience in the most vulnerable communities.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet every day millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
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Please click ‘Apply for Job’. You are required to submit your work history and a supporting statement. The supporting statement should include your responses to the first four points in the ‘About You’ section of the job description of no more than 1000 words in total. Please state at the top of your supporting statement which location(s) you would like to be considered for.
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- We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.
Safeguarding Statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
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Job Description - Financial Resilience Adviser - London or Sheffield - September 2026.docx
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