Financial Wellbeing and Energy Advice Worker

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS); Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) is looking for a Financial Wellbeing Advisor to support families during challenging times. This role involves providing comprehensive financial advice, ensuring families maximize their income, and navigating benefits and energy assistance. Join a supportive team dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of families caring for children with life-limiting conditions.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Regular supervision sessions

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in providing financial wellbeing and energy advice.
• Ability to support families with income maximization and benefits advice.
• Good communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Maximize the money available to families of children with life-shortening conditions.
• Provide information about benefits systems and undertake casework.
• Advise families on energy efficiency and signpost to specialist services.

Skills

Financial wellbeing advice

Energy advice

Income maximization

Benefits advice

Money advice

Job description

Contract Type: Temporary

Position Type: Full Time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Work From Home: Hybrid

Location: Ideally Aberdeen or Inverness based, travel required

Contract Type: Temporary until end March 2026, Full time: 37.5 hours per week

Caring for a child with a life shortening condition can bring with it unexpected financial responsibilities which may lead to poverty and hardship. These include increased care costs, increased energy costs and the possibility of a parent needing to stop working to become a fulltime carer.

Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) was awarded a two year grant funding from British Gas Energy Trust (BGET) to develop a team who will support families across Scotland during the cost of living crisis. Scottish Gas Network (SGN) have added further to this funding, and we are looking to expand our team.

Recruitment to this exciting new post will further enhance the support CHAS provides at an extremely difficult time families.

We are currently recruiting financial a wellbeing and energy advice worker, who will work directly with families to provide comprehensive financial wellbeing advice (including energy), to maximise the money available to them.

As a Financial Wellbeing Advisor, you will be joining an enthusiastic, energetic, experienced, and supportive team, with a collaborative and hardworking culture. Last year the team brought in over £1.7 million in financial gains for CHAS families You will work primarily with our teams in Inverness and Aberdeen as well as our Family Support Teams in our two hospices (Rachel House and Robin House).

• Option to opt into generous pension scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Regular facilitated supervision sessions
• Employee assistance programme

The CHAS service:

• Two children’s hospices, Robin House, Balloch and Rachel House, Kinross.
• An Outreach Service providing support to children and families in their own homes, hospitals and communities across Scotland
• Co-partnership working with Scotland’s three children’s hospitals

The role

The role of the financial wellbeing and energy advice worker is to maximise the money available to families of children with life-shortening conditions. The post holder will do this through 1-to-1 support for individual family members, covering income maximisation, benefits advice, money advice and energy advice, which will maximise the money available to the families, ensuring that their financial wellbeing is being addressed. They will provide information about the benefits systems, undertaking casework, supporting applications to benevolent societies and trusts, advising and providing families with impartial advice and information on energy efficiency and signposting to specialist services where required. This will be done through;

• Leadership
• Key contact with external organisations and partners

Further Information and How to Apply

Follow the link below to find more information including:

· Full job description

· Full list of benefits

· Contact details to arrange an informal chat with the hiring manager.

· Contact details for support with the recruitment process.

To apply you will be asked to answer a couple of questions and submit your CV or complete our full application form.

Please note this role will be subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check or Level 1 Disclosure.