Universal Support Best Practice Lead

Hours: 30 hours per week.
Salary: £22,400 per annum.
Contract: Fixed Term Employment Contract until 31^st March 2020, which may be able to be extended, subject to funding.
Funding: This role is funded by the DWP.
Pension: We operate the NEST Pension Scheme.
Location: Home/Mobile with regular travel to areas of North East Yorkshire and Humberside.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. We give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.  We help with everything from money issues to problems at work, housing to consumer rights.

Universal Credit is the fastest growing advice issue for the Citizens Advice service and Local Citizens Advice offices everywhere and improving the support available to people making a claim is vital.

Citizens Advice is set to deliver a new service called “Universal Support – Help to Claim” which offers end-to-end support to help people make a new Universal Credit claim and be ready for when their first payment arrives.

We are looking for candidates with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a knowledge of – or appetite to gain an in-depth knowledge of – the benefits system, and a commitment to the aims and principles of the Citizens Advice Service.

You will be working as part of a network of Best Practice Leads and will gather and share learning about how Universal Credit and the Help to Claim service is performing, develop relationships with relevant local stakeholders and sharing ideas and best practice.

The role will work across a Jobcentre Plus district area to improve people’s experience of Universal Credit and Universal Support as well as feed into the wider Best Practice Lead network and work of national Citizens Advice.

For more information and to apply, please click on the Apply button to be redirected to our website.

Application Closing Date: 12 noon on 18^th February 2019

Interview Date: 22nd February 2019 at our Harrogate Office (Audrey Burton House, Harrogate HG1 5LX)