OWL Advice Worker
Team
OWL
Location
Archway Resource Centre
Salary
Scale 5, point 15 £28,028.
Employment Type
initial 12 month FTC with the potential to be extended
Hours
37
Closing date
10/12/2025
Shortlisting Date
11/12/2025
Interview Date
16/12 or 18/12/2025
Job Specification
Person Specification
Description
We are looking for a welfare benefits adviser to join our small but experienced advice team to provide benefits advice and assistance to young people receiving support through Our Way Leeds.
The role requires excellent attention to detail, exceptional organisation and communication skills and the ability to maintain comprehensive, timely case notes.
Work Type
This role is part of Young People’s Housing Related Support Service Our Way Leeds (OWL), delivered by a consortia of service providers. The consortia have GIPSIL as the lead provider alongside Inspire North & Turning Lives Around. OWL provides a wide range of interventions to prevent homelessness, four types of supported housing and pre and post-tenancy support schemes for young people & young people leaving care including unaccompanied asylum seeker children. Young people can be single, young families or couples.
As an organisation we are committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities and safer recruitment;
• We recruit for potential, not perfection,
• We are a values based recruiter,
• We value lived experience as a demonstration of capability for a role,
• We only utilise truly “essential” criteria in recruitment,
• We are committed to safer recruitment practice.
When we refer to Values we are talking about our organisational Values, found here.
Benefits
- Employee health plan
- Company pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working.
To arrange an informal conversation about this role, please contact:
Viv Lambert
Senior Advice Worker OWL
viv.lambert@ourwayleeds.org.uk