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Social Welfare Advisor and Caseworker - Bart's Health
| Posting date: | 17 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,724.96 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | The above wage is pro rata to 0.6 FTE £19,634.98 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 January 2025 |
| Location: | Bromley-By-Bow, East London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Bromley by Bow Centre |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
The Bromley by Bow Centre is working with East London Cardiovascular Prevention Group (ELoPE) to improve access to social welfare advice for Bart's Health patients.
The role will provide social welfare advice to people referred into the Centre’s Cardiovascular Social Prescribing service. It will focus on what matters to the individual and take a holistic approach, providing welfare benefits, housing, debt, food and energy advice to casework level. The role will advocate on behalf of people accessing the service including challenging benefit decisions, challenging bills, negotiating payment plans, and making complaints.
The Advisor and Caseworker will refer to agencies at a specialist level including immigration, legal advice and debt as well as support individuals to access a range of services and activities in their local communities.
The role will build collaborative relationships with the Cardiovascular Social Prescribing team, including supporting the delivery of social welfare advice training to enable health professionals to identify and connect people experiencing hardship with the support they need to improve their circumstances and prevent problems developing into crisis.
The Advisor and Caseworker role will help shape this exciting new service to help reduce health inequalities locally.
The role will provide social welfare advice to people referred into the Centre’s Cardiovascular Social Prescribing service. It will focus on what matters to the individual and take a holistic approach, providing welfare benefits, housing, debt, food and energy advice to casework level. The role will advocate on behalf of people accessing the service including challenging benefit decisions, challenging bills, negotiating payment plans, and making complaints.
The Advisor and Caseworker will refer to agencies at a specialist level including immigration, legal advice and debt as well as support individuals to access a range of services and activities in their local communities.
The role will build collaborative relationships with the Cardiovascular Social Prescribing team, including supporting the delivery of social welfare advice training to enable health professionals to identify and connect people experiencing hardship with the support they need to improve their circumstances and prevent problems developing into crisis.
The Advisor and Caseworker role will help shape this exciting new service to help reduce health inequalities locally.
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