Financial Assessment and Inclusion Officer
Duration: Initially 3 monthsHours: 36 hours per weekRate: £22 umbrella an hour (£18 PAYE an hour)Requirement: Hybrid - 2 days in the office (Thursday and another day)
Sutton Council are looking for a Financial Assessment and Inclusion Officer to join their Social Services.
Responsibilities:
* Assessing, checking, verifying and processing Financial Assessments. To ensure the correct calculation of client contribution. To minimize incorrect charges (errors) through efficient and accurate processing
* Explain the Council and Government schemes in a clear and understanding way by interview, telephone, email and letter to clients, client reps, Social Workers and other interested parties
* To be a single point of contact for the clients. To pro-actively ensure that supporting evidence for cases is provided by telephoning customers and/or arranging appointments for customers making new applications and reporting changes of circumstances
* To assist in cross training the team in Financial Assessments including visits
Requirements:
1. Able to input and retrieve information from various computer systems with training to prepare and collate information to enable calculations
2. Experience within financial assessments
3. Able to communicate eff...