# Financial Assessment and Inclusion Officer

**Company**: Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames
**Location**: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 36,693 - 40,575 per year
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Public Sector

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## Description

Join the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames as a Financial Assessment and Inclusion Officer. You will work in a hybrid team, providing a financial assessment and benefit maximisation service for recipients of care services arranged by Adult Social Care.

The successful candidate will be proactive and ambitious with excellent welfare benefit knowledge. You will have a history of working within a finance and customer service team in the adult social care sector, be analytical and a problem solver, possess a 'can do' attitude, and be willing to work collaboratively with other departments and teams.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing financial assessments and benefit maximisation services

- Administering, monitoring, and processing payments to care providers

- Working collaboratively with ASC colleagues and other internal teams as well as external stakeholders

We offer a range of benefits, including:

- A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays

- Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave

- Two volunteering days per year

- Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme

- Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks

- Learning and development portal offering a range of courses

- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres

- Interest-free season ticket loans

- Local Government Pension Scheme

- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

- Electric vehicle leasing scheme

- Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support

## Skills

### Required
- welfare benefit knowledge
- finance
- customer service
- analytical
- problem solving

### Nice to have
- Care Act 2014
- charging principles for social care services

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