Job description
Position: Help to Claim Supervisor
Location: Home based but may be required to work anywhere within the South London DWP area on occasion
Closing date: 24 August 2023
Role details
Job title:
Help to Claim Supervisor
Location:
Home based but may be required to work anywhere within the South London DWP area on occasion
Salary:
£28,000 – £31,000 Pro rata (depending on experience)
Salary pro rata:
Yes
London allowance:
Yes
Hours per week:
17.5 hours per week
Closing date for applications:
24.08.2023
Link to job pack for application: https://hr.breathehr.com/v/help-to-claim-supervisor-31168
To supervise the daily delivery across multi channels of the Help to Claim (HTC) service to increase accessibility and meet client needs and to take the main role in ensuring quality of advice compliance via checks and reports.
Providing support, supervision and facilitating training and cover for all contracted obligations for the project.
Essential criteria
- Citizens Advice Help to Claim certificate and at least 1 year post-certificate experience of providing advice and managing an advice caseload.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, conduct research and analyse and interpret complex information to produce and present reports clearly.
- Demonstrable understanding of the issues involved in interviewing clients, an up-to-date understanding of equality and diversity – it’s application to providing advice and the supervision and development of staff.
- Commit to, and work within, the aims, principles and policies of the Citizens Advice service, demonstrating the understanding of issues affecting the society and the implications of this on the client and the service.
- Proven ability to monitor and maintain service delivery against agreed targets as well as monitor and analyse statistics and check accuracy of calculations.
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