Welfare Benefits Specialist

We are looking for a Welfare Benefits Specialist, with excellent knowledge of the Welfare Benefits System, to join our Greenwich Mental Health Hub. The successful candidate will be required to oversee the management of a Benefits Support Volunteer team and work closely with our partners at Bridge Support and Oxleas NHS across the local mental health service.

You should have experience of providing detailed/complex benefits advice, supporting individuals, and of working with people with mental health problems.

You will be a key person in maintaining quality within service delivery and maintaining clear communication and representation with clinical teams and team leaders.

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SEL Mind supports people with mental health problems and dementia in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. We are proud of our diverse workforce and know that our organisation is made stronger by the variety of backgrounds, experience, and ideas within it. We promote a culture of inclusion and representation, and are working hard to build a workforce that even better reflects the communities we support.

SEL Mind is somewhere that you can be your authentic self without fear of discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, neurodivergence, gender, age, lived experience of mental health problems or anything else that's part of who you are.