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Exciting employment opportunity – independent advocate (Job Reference: AS08)

Citizens Advice Sheffield, one of the country’s largest and most dynamic Local Citizens Advice, and our advocacy services exist to provide a free, independent and confidential service for people who need independent advocacy support.

We work with a wide range of people who are vulnerable and who need health or social care services.  This includes people with mental health problems, learning disabilities, dementia and brain injuries.  We work with young people, adults and older people from all backgrounds and a wide range of communities.  Many of our clients don’t have anyone else to support them.

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Employment opportunity

Citizens Advice Sheffield, one of the country’s largest and most dynamic Local Citizens Advice, is launching a new support service for people claiming universal credit. Universal Support is an exciting opportunity to enable us to make a difference and we are delighted to be recruiting a new team to help us deliver it.

There is currently a role for a customer assessment and support worker (Job reference: CASO 01), for more details, visit our employment opportunities page.  Closing date: 10.00am on Monday, 14 January 2019.

We are recruiting

Citizens Advice Sheffield are recruiting at the moment for two posts within our advice service as follows:

  • Advice Services Supervisor (Job ref: AS1 12-18) – Closing date: 9am on Monday, 10 December 2018
  • Advice Worker (Job ref: AW5 12-18) – Closing date: 9am on Wednesday, 12 December 2018
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Just about managing – new report

Citizens Advice Sheffield have published a report arising from interviews with clients who are ‘Just About Managing’ and working part time in Sheffield.  The report is based on interviews with an anonymised sample of Citizens Advice Sheffield’s clients who had been finding it difficult to cover everyday household expenses from their current pay. What prevented them from increasing their income by working more hours or finding better-paid jobs? We found that this apparently obvious solution is not open to everyone.   This work has been undertaken by the Research and Campaigns team – Frances Potter, Tim Arnold, Kate McGimpsey and, in particular, by our postgraduate student, Jenny Reed, who interviewed the clients and analysed the data.

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