About the Role
This is a highly responsible yet rewarding role where no two days are the same. You’ll manage a diverse and complex caseload, supporting vulnerable adults, where the Council acts as DWP Appointee and/or Court Appointed Deputy.
You’ll play a vital part in safeguarding and managing individuals’ financial affairs, ensuring they receive the benefits, support and protection they are entitled to, always acting in their best interests and helping them live the largest lives possible.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing finances including income, savings and debts
- Securing welfare benefits and financial entitlements
- Preparing and submitting Office of Public Guardian annual reports to a high standard and within deadlines
- Developing sustainable budgets that promote financial stability and wellbeing
- Working collaboratively with partners such as DWP, OPG, care providers and families
- Identifying and mitigating financial risks, including fraud or exploitation
This is a key role where your professional judgement, empathy and attention to detail will make a genuine impact.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Knowledgeable in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and welfare benefits
- Financially astute, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Confident communicating with a wide range of stakeholders
- Compassionate, resilient and committed to safeguarding
Informal queries please contact the Executor Services Team Managers on:
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We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.
