Welfare Rights Specialist

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 on a permanent basis who can work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team structure., The Camden Early Intervention Service is an innovative and forward-thinking team working with service users experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis (FEP).
Camden EIS is a well-established, multi-disciplinary team serving a culturally diverse London Borough. The team promotes a full symptomatic and social recovery, with an emphasis on assisting service users into valued education and occupation. The team also has a strong research ethic, with the team participating in several multi-Centre studies.
The main duties and responsibilities include:
+ To provide a specialist welfare rights information, advice and casework service to users of the Camden Early Intervention 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 EIS Welfare Rights Service and to link in, where appropriate with other specialists at Trust
+ To monitor, record and evaluate the development of the EIS Welfare Rights Service
+ To offer supervision and consultation, where appropriate, to other practitioners within the team on relevant aspects of their work.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of welfare benefits alongside 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.

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Welfare Rights advisor in the Camden Early Intervention Service.
The service works with adults who are experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis, 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 Camden, By working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
+ Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
+ Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
+ Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
+ We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
+ Generous Annual Leave Allowance
+ NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
+ We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:
+ We are:
o kind
o respectful
o proudly diverse
+ We:
o work together
o keep things simple
o empower
You may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.