Adult Social Care
Business Management and Transformation
Client Finance Assistant ** This is not an accountancy role**
Ref: G3/OL-23993
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade 3 £18,319 to £20,541
Hours: 18.20 per week
Based: Civic Centre, Oldham Council
Closing date: 26 February 2019
Shortlisting & Interview Dates: 1 March 2019 & 12 March 2019
Working in the Client Finance Team you will be responsible for holding a caseload of appointeeship cases, managing and protecting the finances of service users whilst completing financial assessments to calculate service user’s contributions towards their care and support services.
Key responsibilities
- Manage an appointee caseload, taking responsibility and ownership to ensure all cases are proactively progressed in accordance with the DWP, service targets and deadlines
- Act in the best interest of the service user, coordinate and gather information, and liaise with all relevant third parties, to ensure all queries and problems are satisfactorily resolved and that they support decision making.
- Undertake protection of property visits, keeping a detailed inventory and robust recording, ensuring the safekeeping and safe return of client property/valuables in a timely manner and in accordance with the council policy
- To complete financial assessments to calculate service users contributions towards social care services.
- Update all IT (and other) systems in a timely manner, complying with all service requirements, Court of Protection and DWP standards, including financial, social care and casework systems.
Key Requirements
- Substantial experience of working with financial systems, records and undertaking financial assessments.
- Experience of providing services to vulnerable people.
- Excellent customer care, interpersonal and communication skills, sufficient to provide a sensitive and personalised service to clients and to maintain good working relationships with others.
- Extensive knowledge of Court of Protection and Corporate Appointeeship legislation, financial assessment and charging regulations, case law, guidance and policy
The post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS.
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