Job description
Together with our incredible partners – The Baytree Centre, IRMO, LAWRS and Southwark Law Centre – we are recruiting for the second cohort of our Advice Workforce Development Programme. This is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience, build your skills and access a pathway into a career in advice services. This role is an ideal first step into the advice sector, offering a wide-ranging learning opportunity covering the different types of welfare benefits and housing support available for different communities in the UK.
As one of our Welfare and Housing Trainee Advisers, you will receive full on-the-job training on how to provide high-quality, person-centred welfare and housing advice to the beneficiaries of our organisations. Through the placement, you will work on a one-to-one basis with a trained supervisor to strengthen your professional skills, gain confidence in the advice environment and acquire the essential knowledge, experience and training required (including the opportunity to acquire a Level 3 qualification in Information, Advice and Guidance) to move into meaningful employment within the advice sector. You will also work in collaboration with other advisers in your placement organisation and contribute to partnership-wide meetings.
While there is no expectation that you will have previous experience in providing welfare and housing advice, we are looking for a clear history of working with individuals in some form of supportive capacity. We are also looking for a good understanding and a natural empathy with the multiple barriers people may be facing when seeking advice of this kind, as well as a structured, organised approach to work and excellent people skills. You will be passionate about supporting others to achieve meaningful change, comfortable using our internal systems to record your work, and committed to engaging in all the training needed to become an excellent welfare and housing adviser.