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This job empowers our automotive family to live their best life by being the first point of contact for individuals seeking support. The role provides high quality information, advice and guidance, helping individuals to identify solutions, access appropriate services to improve their wellbeing, and make a positive change in their lives through a person centred approach.
Job Overview
· Act as the first point of contact for individuals accessing Ben's services, delivering a professional, compassionate and person-centred experience.
· Identify needs, provide information, advice and guidance, and practical support across a range of wellbeing issues.
· Manage all enquiries, ensuring timely intervention, effective signposting and referrals to internal and external services.
· Identify when urgent/critical intervention is required following SASH or Safeguarding processes.
· Work collaboratively with colleagues and partner organisations to ensure individuals receive coordinated and impactful support.
Key responsibilities:
· Deliver high-quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) that enables individuals to make informed decisions and access appropriate support.
· Conduct thorough, person-centred assessments, identifying risks, vulnerabilities and safeguarding concerns where appropriate.
· Manage enquiries effectively, ensuring support is delivered within agreed service standards and timescales.
· Maintain accurate, timely and confidential records on Ben's CRM system.
· Provide effective referrals and handovers to Case Management, Specialist Services and external partner organisations.
· Refer / signpost individuals where relevant to access welfare benefits, statutory services, financial assistance and community-based resources.
· To keep abreast of changes in legislation of Welfare Benefits and Statutory Provisions.
· Promote safeguarding best practice in line with Ben’s Safeguarding and Suicide and self-harm policies at all times,
· Build and maintain positive relationships with referral partners, external agencies and stakeholders.
· Contribute to service development through sharing feedback, identifying trends and suggesting improvements.
· Support the delivery of excellent customer service, ensuring every interaction is professional, empathetic and responsive.
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities and will be regularly reviewed and amended as necessary.
Our Values
· Passionate
· Respectful
· Inclusive
· Driven
· Empowered
Job Specific Competencies
Technical knowledge:
· Understanding of Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) principles and practice.
· Understanding of statutory services and community support provision.
· Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and best practice relating to vulnerable adults and children.
· Experience using CRM systems and maintaining accurate case records.
· Good understanding of data protection, confidentiality and GDPR requirements.
· Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and digital working practices.
Skills:
· Excellent communication, listening and interpersonal skills.
· Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritise competing demands.
· Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
· Strong organisational and time-management skills.
· Ability to build effective relationships with individuals, colleagues and external stakeholders.
· Resilient, empathetic and customer focused.
Qualifications required:
· Level 2 Information, Advice and Guidance qualification or willingness to work towards.
· GCSE (or equivalent) English and Mathematics.
· Commitment to ongoing professional development.
Experience required
Essential:
· Experience working in a customer service, helpline or support environment.
· Experience working within community support, social care, welfare, advice or guidance services.
· Experience supporting individuals using a person-centred approach.
· Knowledge and experience of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
· Experience of working with confidential and sensitive information.
· Experience using case management or CRM systems.
Desirable:
· Experience working within a charity, health and wellbeing, social care or not-for-profit environment. .
· Experience managing your own caseload in a holistic manner
· Experience of completing needs assessments
· Understanding of welfare benefits and statutory support services.
· Experience developing relationships with partner agencies and external stakeholders.
This job is suitable for someone who…
· Shares our ambition to save the lives of our automotive family, with a passion and commitment to using data and insights to make a positive difference to people’s lives
· Is proactive and enjoys interacting with people.
· Has values which align with the organisations core values and is committed to upholding high standards of integrity and accountability.
· Is passionate about people and their importance in making an organisation successful.
· Has empathy with Ben’s mission, vision and values.
· Can be supportive and inclusive to all team members in Life Coaching and the wider team at Ben.
· Is professional, supportive, and inclusive to all individuals accessing support.
· Can hold appropriate professional boundaries.
· Will engage with continuous professional development and maintain professional registration or membership (when applicable), to improve knowledge, develop self-awareness and enhance professional skills.
· Seeks to enhance and continuously improve self and the services we provide.
· Is flexibility and be adaptable.
· Is conscientious and motivated to deliver to deadlines.
· Is creative and take a solution focused approach.
· Is open and honest and demonstrate integrity.
· Has a desire to help and support others.
· Is approachable.
· Is passionate about the services we deliver.
If you require reasonable adjustment during the interview process and are contacted about the role, please inform our team so we can take steps to provide the support you need.
To make a positive difference to people's lives within the automotive industry.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Full time (35 hrs/wk), permanent
Split place of work between Horizons, Reading and Home (typically 3/2 days)
Salary £45-50,000 FTE pa plus benefits
Are you an experienced HR adviser or business partner who likes being in front of line managers, helping them succeed in areas of people management? Do you have a natural flair for training and building relationships with line managers? If so, we need you to bring your HR subject matter expertise and train our line managers on how to deal with the employment demands they are facing today – demands which continue to grow.
In this new role you will design and deliver regular HR and induction training, in person and online, to upskill our line manager group. You must cover topics across the full employment lifecycle including recruitment, induction, performance management, engagement, recognition, disputes, exits and more – boosting confidence and reducing risk to the University.
You’ll also do some advising as well as contributing to the achievement of wider team objectives and projects, as part of our people strategy. Overall, your work will positively contribute to helping the University realise its ambitions for growth and secure its ongoing success.
You must be CIPD qualified and have a business partnering or senior advising background. You must have the ability to develop your own training resources using your digital skills and, overall, be prepared to help shape and evolve this important new role.
At University of the Built Environment we expect employees to demonstrate our values and behaviours, which are important ingredients of our culture. To find out more about these, view the full job specification, and how to apply, visit our careers site.
We are a long-standing and leading provider of supported online education with a long-term ambition to be the world’s most sustainable university. At The London School of Architecture, our students study onsite. Staff wellbeing and work-life balance are a priority for us, with flexible working arrangements and a generous holiday allowance amongst some of our key employee benefits.
Vacancy closes on Wednesday 26 August 2026 at 17:00.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION
We champion equality, diversity, and inclusion in our workforce. We celebrate diversity and the strengths it brings to our staff body, our student community and our Board of Trustees, recognising that people are key to our success. Our aim is to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce, therefore we welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Our vision is to be the centre of excellence for built environment education



The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary – Grade 4 - £35,581 per annum, pro rata for part time
Hours: 1 x part time - 28 hours per week - can be worked flexibly
Contract: Fixed term until end of March 2028
Location: Home Worker with occasional travel to Manchester, Birmingham or Sheffield
Closing date: Thursday 27th August 2026 at 11:30pm
Are you a customer-focused individual with recent experience of providing specialist level debt advice? Then join Shelter as a Specialist Debt Adviser supporting client-facing debt advisers with their complex casework, contributing to resources and helping us to influence the debt advice sector.
About the Team
Our Specialist Debt Advice service works with front-line debt advisers based across England & Wales, providing support with their complex case work. The service currently operates between 9-5 Monday to Friday, with advisers offering live support to clients on a rota basis throughout the week.
About the Role
As a Specialist Debt Adviser, you will be responsible for handling phone and email enquiries to the service, using diagnostic questioning to fully establish the caller's enquiry and providing detailed and timely responses. We'll also rely on you to identify and act upon any emergency enquiries and prioritise your workload accordingly. Helping our Team to produce written and on-line content and provide service users with the latest developments in debt regulation, policy and good practice will be important too.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About you
You are someone who champions user-focused advice and who can take complex language and processes and make them easy to understand for professional advisers and other audiences. You will need excellent all-round understanding of debt advice, with experience of producing written and on-line resources, including guidance documents, webinars and attendance at networking events, providing service users with the latest debt regulation, policy and good practice. You have good typing skills and proficiency using Microsoft office applications and case management and reporting systems.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
About Shelter
Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet every day millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.
We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.
We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.
Safeguarding Statement
Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
How to Apply
Please submit your work history and a supporting statement with responses to the four 'About You' points outlined in the job description. The supporting statement should be no more than 1500 words in total. Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:
· We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
· We are open to risk and learning from our experiences
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.