Welfare Rights Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Welfare Rights advisor in the South Camden Rehabilitation and Recovery Team

The service works with adults who have a range of complex mental health problems, many of whom struggle to manage their finances without appropriate levels of support.

The team is a well established multidisciplinary service serving the culturally diverse population within South Camden

The successful post holder will be a Welfare Rights Specialist to a large cohort of service users, offering benefits support and advice along with preliminary debt and housing advice.

The team is looking to recruit an individual who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team structure.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of welfare benefits and relevant policy and legislation and the post would suit applicants with prior experience in mental health settings.

Team members benefit from a supportive team environment, with clinical supervision, peer support and training.

Additional contact Information

Louise Cantrell

Service Manager

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital.

We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area. We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and

The main duties and responsibilities include:

To provide a specialist welfare rights information, advice and casework service to users of the R&R Service within Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust.
To undertake specialist welfare rights casework with individual service users referred by Care Coordinators within the Service. To include preliminary debt and housing advice.
To be responsible for the development of the R&R Welfare Rights Service and to link in, where appropriate with other specialists at Trust
To monitor, record and evaluate the development of the R&R Welfare Rights Service
To offer supervision and consultation, where appropriate, to other practitioners within the team on relevant aspects of their work.