At a Glance
- Tasks: Support families with energy advice and financial resilience to combat fuel poverty.
- Company: A charity dedicated to improving community support and children's wellbeing.
- Benefits: 40 days annual leave, flexible working, pension scheme, and wellbeing support.
- Other info: Join a Fair Work accredited workplace with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in vulnerable families' lives while promoting community connection.
- Qualifications: Experience in energy advice, money management, and understanding family trauma.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 36000 £ per year.
This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Supportline Advice Service as well as support our wider aims as a charity. Our Advice service works alongside support colleagues to help families address the challenges and risks which may have led to vulnerability, promote connection to their local communities, and improve financial stability and resilience. Our aim is to support communities to become more resilient and a place where children feel safe, valued, understood, and supported.
The Energy Advisor will work within an integrated model of family support, community connection, and expert energy advice, exploring money and debt advice. This will enable families to stay connected, keep homes warm, resolve debt and money problems, become more financially resilient, and break the cycle of fuel poverty. A priority for the Energy Advisor will be to increase the energy advice and support we offer our families and with the capacity of our current services to provide Type I and II money advice in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland.
You will work as part of our National Money Advice team. You will support families within their homes, by telephone and other digital methods, deliver workshops within the community and in schools, and offer drop-in sessions within the community. If you have experience of energy advice, welfare rights, income maximisation, money and debt advice, understand the impact trauma and adversity can have on children and families, and believe that you can apply this to your practice, we want to hear from you.
This is a full-time, 35 hours post. Hours to be worked flexibly to suit the needs of families, including evenings and weekends as required.
What we offer:
- A workplace with values of love, purpose, and strength
- 40 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays
- Pension scheme and wellbeing support
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Access to Westfield Health, giving colleagues and their families confidential counselling support, wellbeing resources, and access to health and lifestyle benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing
- Blue Light card discount
- A Fair Work accredited workplace
Our Values:
- Living our values, you will help create a workplace where our people can thrive, ensuring we deliver the best possible support to children and families.
- With love, we put children first.
- With purpose, we transform lives together.
- With strength, we do whatever it takes to protect Scotland’s children.
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