Description
Location: Lewes base with travel across Sussex.
Salary: £27,942 per annum plus £1,000 essential car user allowance
Hours: 37 per week
What you’ll be doing:
Are you passionate about financial inclusion and mental health? Join our team as a Financial Inclusion Specialist and help people build financial stability and confidence as they move forward in their recovery journey.
Part of Southdown’s wider mental health services in East Sussex, you’ll provide one-to-one support to clients experiencing mental health challenges, helping them navigate the benefits system, manage their money, and access the right support at the right time. You’ll be a go-to expert on welfare benefits such as PIP, ESA, Jobseeker’s Allowance, and Universal Credit, and work with clients to explore budgeting, maximise income, and reduce financial stress.
This is a varied, client-facing role where no two days are the same. You'll assess new clients, support people in crisis, run money management workshops, and work closely with other services. You'll also help improve the service by sharing ideas and client feedback.
We welcome applications from candidates with previous experience such as Welfare Rights Adviser, Benefits Adviser, Money and Debt Adviser, Financial Inclusion Officer, Support Worker, Housi...