Advisor and Caseworker - Bart's Health

Advisor and Caseworker - Bart's Health

Location: Bromley by Bow Centre
Job Type: Part time, 21 hours per week - open to full time applicants
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (funding until July 2026)
Salary: £32,724.96 per annum (pro rata to 0.6 FTE £19,634 per annum)

The Bromley by Bow Centre is working with East London Cardiovascular Prevention Group (ELoPE) to improve access to social welfare advice for Bart's Health patients.

The role will provide social welfare advice to people referred into the Centre's Cardiovascular Social Prescribing service. It will focus on what matters to the individual and take a holistic approach, providing welfare benefits, housing, debt, food and energy advice to casework level.

The role will advocate on behalf of people accessing the service including challenging benefit decisions, challenging bills, negotiating payment plans, and making complaints.

The Advisor and Caseworker will refer to agencies at a specialist level including immigration, legal advice and debt as well as support individuals to access a range of services and activities in their local communities.

The role will build collaborative relationships with the Cardiovascular Social Prescribing team, including supporting the delivery of social welfare advice training to enable health professionals to identify and connect people experiencing hardship with the support they need to improve their circumstances and prevent problems developing into crisis.

The Advisor and Caseworker role will help shape this exciting new service to help reduce health inequalities locally.

You may also have experience in the following: Caseworker, Advice Worker, Social Welfare Officer, NEA Level 3 Energy Awareness, Social Worker, Social Prescribing Link Worker, Advise, Counselling, Not For Profit, Charity, Advocacy, Nursing, Advice Worker, Service Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Service Delivery, etc.

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