Senior Financial Inclusion Specialist

Senior Financial Inclusion Specialist 

Salary: £37,676 

Location: Manchester - Agile 

Full Time, Permanent     

Closing Date: 3rd July 2024 

Potential Interview dates: 2nd, 3rd or 4th July 2024 

Support our communities. See the difference you can make in our city.     

At One Manchester we are passionate about providing good quality homes, great services and real opportunities for customers and communities. We are more than just a landlord. We invest in new and existing homes, provide money advice and wellbeing, employment and training support and build strong partnerships to support inclusive growth. 

We have an exciting position available for Senior Financial Inclusion Specialist to join us! 

You’ll deliver a customer-focused Financial Inclusion service to help customers manage their finances and improve their financial capability avoiding legal action and potential eviction. This role is key to ensuring our service provides exceptional customer experiences. Your knowledge and skills will provide coaching and feedback to fellow colleagues, highlighting best practice and improvements in how we handle customer appointments. Supporting our customers with welfare benefits advice and money guidance necessary to sustain their tenancies. 

What we’re looking for:        

• Experience of monitoring quality of advice with the ability to provide constructive feedback and coaching to address any training needs with colleagues.  

• Able to provide personal financial advice and guidance.  

• Knowledge and experience of provision of advice on benefits including relevant legislation such as Welfare Reform Act 2012.  

• Computer literate with experience of housing management systems and case management systems.  

• Able to communicate in an appropriate manner with customers, stakeholders and colleagues.  

• Able to design and deliver Financial Inclusion training courses for One Manchester customers.  

• We offer a service that operates from outreaches during the hours of 8:00am - 8:00pm and Saturday's from 9:00am - 12:00pm, there is a requirement to provide cover on a rota basis for these hours. 

Why take up the challenge with One Manchester? This really is a great place to work. We’ve bags of potential and have huge opportunities waiting to be unlocked. Supportive and flexible, we’re rightly proud of our work and excited about the future. So, challenge yourself to be creative and ambitious and see the difference you can make in our great city.        

If this sounds like you then apply today, we’d love to hear from you!     

We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That’s not to say it’s not one our key priorities, it’s simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives.  We put people at the heart of everything we do. We’re constantly evolving as a business to ensure we’re supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.   

In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, One Manchester is operating 'the Rooney Rule'.  This means that we aim to interview at least one ethnically diverse candidate for all roles.  We will also interview at least one female candidate for all our roles within our trades and facilities teams where we experience an under representation. 

One Manchester strives for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do.  We positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.     

We are transitioning to a culture where agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also try to support and promote a culture of flexible working where possible and practical. If you are interested in a role but require flexibility or part time hours please give us a call and we can let you know if this can be considered for a particular role.