BEACON Project – Income Maximisation and Immigration Adviser

Citizens Advice Edinburgh; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Employer pension contribution (7%)

Job summary

Citizens Advice Edinburgh is a key partner in the BEACON initiative, delivering wrap-around support to ethnically diverse families across Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland. The role focuses on empowering low-income households to access welfare rights, debt advice and immigration information within a coordinated family-centred model.

As part of a collaborative network, advisers will contribute to capacity building, resource development and outreach activities, helping families stabilise finances

Job description

About BEACON:

Citizens Advice Edinburgh, Capital City Partnership, Fife Gingerbread, Midlothian Sure Start, Circle, Passion4Fusion, The Poverty Alliance and Glasgow Caledonian University are working in partnership to deliver BEACON, a service designed to tackle the roots cause of poverty experienced by ethnically diverse families. BEACON — Building Equity, Accessibility and Connecting Opportunities Network — will support 200 ethnically diverse families and up to 600 individuals through a relational, wrap-around whole-family keyworker model. The project will ensure support is available where and when families need it across the Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland region. Each partner in the consortium will provide additional capacity and specialist expertise to reach ethnically diverse families and improve engagement and outcomes. Maximising Income and Reducing Barriers to Employment: Citizens Advice Advisers will provide specialist advice, focused on helping families address financial, welfare rights, debt and immigration-related barriers that can prevent them from stabilising household circumstances and progressing towards longer-term outcomes. You will provide specialist financial, welfare rights, debt and immigration advice that complements whole family keyworker support. This is targeted at low-income ethnically diverse families, particularly those facing overlapping barriers to poverty reduction and those falling within Scottish child poverty priority family types. You will support the Advice Service Manager in capacity building, strengthening other organisations and advisers to work more effectively with families facing immigration barriers, including the no recourse to public funds condition. This will involve delivering presentations and creating and updating resources. The overall role of Citizens Advice therefore strengthens the BEACON model by helping families address immediate financial and advice-related pressures while supporting wider outcomes around stability, wellbeing, income maximisation and progression. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the cities leading charities and make a substantial contribution to your local community. Competitive salaries and a 7% Employers Pension Contribution are among the many benefits of joining this fantastic organisation.