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Macmillan Income Maximisation and Advice Officer - Multiple Locations
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Macmillan Income Maximisation & Advice Officer – Household Support & Advice Team
Multiple Locations across city
Salary: £34,452 – £40,501
Hours: 36 per week
Are you an experienced adviser, competent in welfare rights and/or money advice?
Keen for a new challenge joining a team that tackles and prevents poverty, that works in partnership with others and is developing links with community-based services?
The Advice Shop is seeking Income Maximisation & Advice Officers who will work with locality-based colleagues to provide a high quality income maximisation and money advice service, working to the National Standards for Information & Advice Providers.
You will undertake advice provision across both welfare rights and money advice, while assisting colleagues and service users with all aspects of advice provision and developing the service to maximise accessibility and impact.
You will work closely with others across the Council and with Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, voluntary sector, statutory services, creditors and NHS provision.
Offering a person-centred, outcome focused intervention to all age groups to tackle inequality, poverty and maintain tenancies, you will have excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
Contributing to the Council’s prevention and early intervention approaches to addressing poverty and homelessness, you will be part of a wider service area seeking to develop, deliver, and improve integrated services to individuals and households.
On the job training will be provided as we value continuous professional development so a commitment to your ongoing learning and development is expected.
This post requires a Basic Disclosure so preferred candidates will be required to obtain the Disclosure prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council.
If you wish to know more about the role, please contact: mark.upward@edinburgh.gov.uk
We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
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Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4
As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We’re interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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View Macmillan Income Maximisation & Advice Officer job description https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/40775/macmillan-income-maximisationand-advice-officer-cec1470-jd
View Macmillan Income Maximisation & Advice Officer person specification https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/40776/macmillan-income-maximisation-and-advice-officer-cec1470-ps-26-08
THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL
About Us:
Are you keen to shape the future of Scotland’s capital city? The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to work with us and deliver key services across our capital city. We’re the second largest local authority in Scotland with a workforce of over 19,000 who all play a crucial role in maintaining and supporting vital services to over 500,000 residents. We offer an incredible variety of career opportunities across a broad range of sectors. Join us and you’ll find a role where you can make a difference and grow your career.
Our Culture:
Our Behaviours, respect, integrity, and flexibility guide everything that we do, and we strive to make sure all colleagues feel valued and have a sense of belonging in the workplace. We want to make sure that we bring people into our roles who demonstrate Our Behaviours and are dedicated and committed to our purpose of serving our community. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service to meet citizens needs and make the city a better place.
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You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We recognise the benefits that diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds bring to our organisation, and we’re committed to employing a workforce that represents the population of the city we serve. We particularly encourage applicants from under-represented groups including women, LGBT+ people, racially minoritised groups, people with disabilities and people who are neurodivergent.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we're delighted to announce that we have extended our guaranteed interview scheme to include all applicants who are or have been care experienced, and who meet the essential criteria for the post. This extends our current arrangements of being a Disability Confident Employer, that guarantee an interview to applicants who meet the criteria for the post and who declare a disability.
Happy to talk flexible working.
Colleague Support and Wellbeing
As outlined in our People Strategy 2024-27, we aim to nurture a healthy workforce where we can all thrive. We offer regular events, initiatives and learning opportunities covering a range of different health and wellbeing topics.
We’re committed to supporting employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. There are several policies in place to support this ranging from flexible work options to career breaks. Our full suite of employment policies can be found here.
We have a range of support options available including access to counselling, a mental health support service, an occupational health service, speak up supporters and a colleague listening service.
Reasonable Adjustments:
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience at work for all our colleagues and we’ll work hard to ensure that we meet the changing needs of colleagues throughout their time with us. We’re also geared up to support all candidates who may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Candidates invited for interview, should let the hiring manager know what they need, and they will do everything they can to accommodate your request.
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