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Financial Assessment & Benefit Officer (FAB Officer)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	20 Gorffennaf 2024
Cyflog:	£23.86 yr awr
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	per hour PAYE
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	18 Awst 2024
Lleoliad:	BRISTOL, BS1 9NE
Cwmni:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Math o swydd:	Dros dro
Cyfeirnod swydd:	Bristol 5252158

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What's involved with this role:

Interim Financial Assessment & Benefit Officer (FAB Officer)

Reference no: Bristol 5252158

Pay rate: £23.86 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 07:00 – 19:00

This opening assignment is for 3 months

City: BRISTOL

Hybrid working

Standard DBS required for this role

The purpose of this role is to carry out financial assessments for clients who receive support from Adult Social Care in accordance with the Care Act 2014 and Council financial regulations. The role requires excellent interpersonal skills as will be dealing directly with service users and/or their agents and carrying out the assessment on-line or over the phone. Experience of Adult Social Care finance is required for this role, not housing benefit experience.

Key responsibilities:

This is a specific role to review the financial assessments of clients who have not been reviewed for 2 years or more. Use Controcc to carry out the assessments and Infomation@work to save documents.
May include the requirement for occasional visits to service users and financial representatives as necessary to obtain information, help with the completion of financial statements and benefit claim forms and provision of advice on the financial aspects of service provision including benefits, charging and the safeguarding of vulnerable people’s financial affairs.
Work with colleagues to ensure a financial service in accordance with the Care Act, 2014 and Council financial regulations.
Work with service users and/or their agents to resolve issues related to their assessed contributions.
Benefit claims, assistance with claim completion and provision of benefits advice.
Provision of expertise, information, advice and guidance to carers, clients and members of the general public on these specialist areas of activity.



NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

BTEC in Business and Finance or Competency equivalent to level 3 NVQ in Business and Finance or experience that demonstrates an equivalent acquisition of knowledge or an equivalent qualification.



Experience:

Experience of Adult Social Care finance is required for this role, not housing benefit experience.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience in finance particularly supporting service users to complete financial assessment forms and benefit claims.



Knowledge:

An awareness of legislation relating to charging for social care services, safeguarding the affairs of vulnerable adults and recovery of social care debts or equivalent experience / knowledge.
Knowledge of the principles for supporting people, who lack capacity, with the management of their finances desirable.



Skills & Abilities:

Excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to cope with the duties and responsibilities of the post and associated working environment and the ability to work as a member of a team.
Innovative style in analysing and resolving problems and in the application of judgement.
Ability to use initiative where necessary and to prioritise workloads.
Ability to deal sensitively, diplomatically and professionally with vulnerable, mentally incapacitated and distressed service users and agents and bereaved relatives.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).



***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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Job Ref: Bristol 5252158


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.