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Universal Credit Help to Claim Adviser

Job details
Posting date: 14 August 2024
Salary: £27,711 to £30,060 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 13 September 2024
Location: Cheshire, North West England
Remote working: Fully remote
Company: Citizens Advice Cheshire West
Job type: Contract
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Summary



Universal Credit Help to Claim Adviser
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- Full time, 37 hours (5 days, will consider compressed hours over 4 days) per week
- Remote working from home (must live close to Cheshire West area to be within easy travelling distance of Chester office)
- Starting salary £27,711 - £30,060 (dependent on HtC experience) pa + excellent benefits
- Fixed term until end of March 2026


The Opportunity
Working as part of our super successful Help to Claim team you will be helping people struggling to make their new Universal Credit claim.
We are looking for friendly advisers with a confident telephone manner and good interpersonal skills to support first-time Universal Credit claimants with ‘better-off’ benefit calculations and practical advice, helping claimants up to their first correct benefit payment. This role forms part of the national Help to Claim service and operates between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday.

What We Offer
Along with a competitive salary, we have an established remote working team across the organisation and offer a supportive working environment, along with enhanced holiday and sick pay entitlement. We are committed to supporting our workforce’s health and wellbeing and provide an extensive Employee Assistance Programme for all employees along with weekly personal development time.

We are based in Cheshire West and have a wonderful team of over 90 employees and volunteers working both remotely and in the community.

The Ideal Candidate
You will have knowledge and professional work experience of welfare benefits particularly legacy benefits, you will also need to be computer literate and be able to work independently in a fast paced and target driven environment. A friendly manner along with experience of working within a remote team is essential and a commitment to an 8 week intensive training programme is a must.

Applications
Please visit our website https://www.citizensadvicecw.org.uk/pages/category/paid-roles/ to view the job description and download an application form.

Deadline for applications is Monday 16th September 2024 at 9 am.

Citizens Advice Cheshire West is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Citizens Advice Cheshire West treats your personal data collected during the recruitment process in accordance with its data protection policy. Information about how your data is used and the basis for processing your data is provided in our job applicant privacy notice at www.citizensadvicecw.org.uk/

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