Overview
Our Benefits
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About the role
Are you a highly organised and detail-oriented professional with a proven track record in office administration and financial management?
Do you have the skills in streamlining workflows, managing schedules, and ensuring smooth operations while maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and efficiency?
Have you honed your skills at financial analysis and budgeting, delivering results that drive growth and success?
We’re seeking a collaborative team player with exceptional problem-solving skills and a commitment to excellence, with a drive for continuous improvement on the way we work.
What will you be doing?
This position is based in Angel Square, Northampton. However, it offers flexible working arrangements, including remote work, office days, and service user home visits, as managed by the Client Funds team.
About Client Funds:
The purpose of the role is to provide a financial and safeguarding service to vulnerable adult service users that are subject to an Appointeeship or Deputyship to ensure financial affairs are managed appropriately and to offer protection from financial abuse. Ensuring duties are carried out in line with the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Financial Regulations, Taxation, DWP legislation, The Office of the Public Guardian Standards and Court of Protection guidelines.
Resolve legal, financial, family and emotional matters that can often be challenging and complex in order to effectively manage clients personal financial affairs who have been assessed as having no capacity themselves to do so.
To ensure an integrated approach to Finance Operations through assisting with the implementation of new technologies, methodologies and processes that meet the needs of clients, customers and client organisations.
About you
About us
We’re a new council, following one of the largest shake-ups in local government
reform in recent history. As a new authority, we’re embarking on an exciting journey
to deliver exceptional services for our residents, customers and
communities.
Our vision at West Northamptonshire Council is ‘to make West Northants a great
place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to
make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance,
Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver
services.
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with
ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail,
and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A
place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-
minded people.
When potential is unlocked, talent thrives.
Choose a career that offers you a true sense of achievement, fills you with pride and
challenges you in a positive way, every day.
West Northants Council, where careers thrive.
