Financial Abuse Safeguarding Officer - West Yorkshire Joint Services

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of West Yorkshire Trading Standards

West Yorkshire Financial Exploitation and Abuse Team (WYFEAT)

Vacancy reference: WYJS:06-24

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic person to work on our WYFEAT team, a co-located specialist, multi-disciplinary team comprising trading standards investigators, police, social workers, financial investigators and Safeguarding Officers. 

The key objective of the team is to protect vulnerable residents from Financial Abuse relating to goods, services and/or scams/fraud, and to detect and investigate incidents of Financial Abuse of vulnerable adults, including offences relating to adult social care funding, leading to successful prosecutions and convictions of offenders, and safeguarding victims and potential victims.

The role involves working closely with colleagues in WYFEAT, identifying and safeguarding victims of Financial Abuse, whether carried out by family and friends and people in a position of trust, or doorstep criminals, and dealing with safeguarding referrals from the 5 West Yorkshire local authorities. Alongside that, the successful candidate will work closely with partner organisations, delivering training sessions to raise awareness of scams, frauds, doorstep crime and other Financial Abuse. 

For this post, you will have excellent communication and organisational skills, along with the ability to produce written work to a very high standard. Based at our HQ in Morley, the post holder will be required to attend appointments throughout West Yorkshire, therefore, a driving licence and access to a car are essential. Full DBS clearance will be required for this post.  

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Lucy Armstrong on lucy.armstrong@wyjs.org.uk

Closing date Monday 15th July 2024 10.00 am.  Interviews w/c 22nd July 2024

Please quote reference WYJS:06-24 on your application.

To apply for this vacancy, please see our website https://www.wyjs.org.uk/work-for-us/financial-abuse-safeguarding-officer/