Specialist Debt Adviser

South West Community Chaplaincy; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave (pro rata)

enhanced family friendly policies

pension

interest free travel loans

tenancy deposit loan

payroll giving

cycle to work scheme

employee assistance programme

Job summary

Shelter is seeking a Specialist Debt Adviser to support debt advisers across England & Wales with complex casework and by developing resources and up-to-date guidance on debt regulation and best practice.

You will handle phone and email enquiries, produce online content, and help keep advisers informed of regulatory changes. The role offers flexible working and a merit-based progression path.

Qualifications

• Experience in debt advice and producing online resources.
• Ability to simplify complex language for professional advisers.
• Proficient typing and use of Microsoft Office and case management systems.

Responsibilities

• Handle phone and email enquiries and provide timely responses.
• Produce written and online content, webinars and guidance.
• Identify emergencies and prioritise workload.

Skills

Typing skills

Microsoft Office

Case management

Reporting systems

Tools

Microsoft Office

Case management systems

Job description

Salary –

Grade 4 - £35,581 per annum

Hours

Full time – 35 per week

Contract

Fixed term until 30th March 2028

Location

Home Worker with occasional travel to Manchester, Birmingham or Sheffield

Closing date

Wednesday 11th November2026 at 11:30pm

Are you a customer-focused individual with recent experience of providing specialist level debt advice? Then join Shelter as aSpecialist Debt Advisersupporting 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

• 30 days of annual leave (pro rata)
• enhanced family friendly policies
• pension
• interest free travel loans
• tenancy deposit loan
• payroll giving
• cycle to work scheme
• 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.