Benefit Support Advisor - Volunteer
Renaissance UK
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Blackpool
Contract type: Full time
Remote
Have you got experience with benefit claim and support?
If you want to make a real difference to people's lives by assisting them to find a way forward with their problems, this is the role for you.
What difference will you make?
Your help and expertise will enable clients to live life to the fullest
What are we looking for?
What will you be doing?
About Us
Renaissance – UK is a North West based charity, currently operating across Lancashire, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen. We specialise in community focused substance use and sexual health services. We specialise in supporting individuals to reduce harm, we offer specialist support and we aim to move people forward in their lives by means of empowerment.
Our values include
If you want to make a real difference to people's lives by assisting them to find a way forward with their problems, this is the role for you.
What difference will you make?
Your help and expertise will enable clients to live life to the fullest
What are we looking for?
- Friendly and polite
- Non-judgmental
- A full understanding of client confidentiality
- Listening skills
- Emotionally mature
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Understanding of, or ability to learn, personal and professional boundaries
- Ability to take direction
- Awareness of personal and professional boundaries
- Basic IT skills
- Previous experience as a benefit advisor
What will you be doing?
About Us
Renaissance – UK is a North West based charity, currently operating across Lancashire, Blackpool, and Blackburn with Darwen. We specialise in community focused substance use and sexual health services. We specialise in supporting individuals to reduce harm, we offer specialist support and we aim to move people forward in their lives by means of empowerment.
Our values include
- Respect
- Dignity
- Accountability
- Empowerment
- Innovation
- Support clients with benefit advice, PIP claims, Universal Credit claims among others.
- Keep all information given or discussed within the service confidential.
- Attend relevant training sessions .
- Demonstrate the organisations values and principals in your actions and behaviours.
- Friendly and polite
- Non-judgemental
- A full understanding of client confidentiality
- Listening skills
- Emotionally mature
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Understanding of, or ability to learn, personal and professional boundaries
- Ability to take direction
- Awareness of personal and professional boundaries
- Basic IT skills
- Previous experience as a benefit advisor
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