Senior Finance Assistant x2

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Job description
Permanent, Part Time 21 hours per week.
Fixed Term to cover maternity leave, Full Time

This Senior Finance Assistant role within Client & Carer Financial Services, which is a finance team within Adult Social Care (ASC). You will be part of the formed ASC Revenue and Direct Payment (DP) support team.

You will have a key role in working directly with people who have been assessed to pay a contribution towards their support costs.

This is an exciting opportunity for a person with a finance administration background, who enjoys supporting people and working directly with the citizens of Bristol with their personal finances including debt.

You will need to be confident in handling incoming and outgoing telephone calls, working directly with social care practitioners and service users to resolve queries.

The role will be:

• To work with service users and/or their agents to resolve issues/queries relating to their assessed personal contributions or billing queries to ensure prompt payment
• To resolve queries in relation to charging at the first point of contact to include problem or complaint investigation and resolution
• To provide information, advice and guidance to service users and practitioners
• To collect and assess information such as auditing Direct Payments or Income & Expenditure
• To support service users in managing their direct payment effectively
• This will involve contacting service user's new to direct payments to support them at 6, 12,18 weeks

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Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you'll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you'll be working in a supportive environment where you'll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you'll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

If you would like further information, please contact karen.abriel@bristol.gov.uk

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Young People, Black and racially minoritised , Disabled, Male and Female candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.