Advice Worker

Job title and organisation: Advice Worker - GIPSIL
Salary: £28,028
Hours: 37 
Contract: Fixed-Term for 12 months
Location: Leeds
Closing Date: Wednesday 10 December

We are looking for a welfare benefits adviser to join our small but experienced advice team to provide benefits advice and assistance to young people receiving support through Our Way Leeds.

The role requires excellent attention to detail, exceptional organisation and communication skills and the ability to maintain comprehensive, timely case notes.

This role is part of Young People’s Housing Related Support Service Our Way Leeds (OWL), delivered by a consortia of service providers. The consortia have GIPSIL as the lead provider alongside Inspire North & Turning Lives Around. OWL provides a wide range of interventions to prevent homelessness, four types of supported housing and pre and post-tenancy support schemes for young people & young people leaving care including unaccompanied asylum seeker children. Young people can be single, young families or couples.

As an organisation we are committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities and safer recruitment; 

  • We recruit for potential, not perfection,
  • We are a values based recruiter,
  • We value lived experience as a demonstration of capability for a role,
  • We only utilise truly “essential” criteria in recruitment,
  • We are committed to safer recruitment practice.

For full details, and to apply, please visit OWL Advice Worker - Gipsil

The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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