Summary:

We have an opportunity to join our Income and Money Advice team as a Money Advisor. The team helps residents with any money problems they’re experiencing, providing advice on budgeting, prioritising debt, understanding entitlements and lots more.
Working with six other Money Advisors, you’ll provide a comprehensive welfare benefit, money and debt advice service to residents and their families. This often involves using your creativity and initiative to reach a positive outcome led by the resident.

United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We look after over 6,300 homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.
Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.
We have a new building programme that is worth around £35m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes. We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.
The United Welsh Group also incorporates our subsidiary Celtic Horizons Ltd which, in partnership, looks after all our property services, and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which builds affordable homes and homes for sale.
We are also developing a new social enterprise, Celtic Offsite, that will manufacture low carbon homes and support the local economy to thrive.
With almost 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.
Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.

Job Role:

To deliver a specialist advice service to residents, fulfilling our commitment to provide affordable homes where people are supported to sustain their tenancies
• To proactively work with residents, colleagues and external partners to improve benefit uptake and minimise the risks associated with welfare reforms
• To collate and maintain financial and statistical information
• To contribute to the development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures and initiatives
• To establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external partners
• To actively promote the work and services offered by the Money Advice team
• To be an effective member of the team and continually seek to improve and develop your own skills and knowledge and the performance of the team.

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Additional Information:

Location: Caerphilly

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £36,844.08 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Tuesday 2nd July at 9am

Interview date: 8th/9th July

We do reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply:  

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and on the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 500 words.
In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do not complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.

Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.

  • We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application.
  • Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment’
  • Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.

Please send any applications to jobs@unitedwelsh.com or deliver them to:
FAO The People Team, United Welsh, Y Borth, 13 Beddau Way, Caerphilly, CF83 2AX. Our main office is open between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.

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