Reference: 92955
Date Added: 5 July 2024
Closing Date: 15 July 2024
Job Title: Senior Case Worker
Working For: Emma Reynolds MP (Wycombe)
Location: High Wycombe
Salary: IPSA payscales (depending upon experience).
Length of Contract: Permanent (subject to 6 months probation).
Job Details
• Manage a large caseload of complex cases, working in a professional, confidential, caring, and sensitive manner.
• Assist with surgeries and other meetings and follow up as appropriate
• Liaise with government agencies, voluntary sector, and others to resolve constituency matters.
• Take initial action on queries from members of the public, including responding on behalf of the MP as appropriate.
• Gather relevant information to resolve or progress cases.
• Ensure that all cases and decisions are properly documented, writing clear concise reports containing analysis of the evidence, explanation of the findings and conclusions, and a robust and appropriate action plan, to include ongoing monitoring and communication procedures where required.
• Ensure records are kept and information managed confidentially and in line with data protection legislation.
• Respond professionally, sensitively, confidentially and with integrity to routine correspondence and enquiries by email, telephone, social media. and face-to-face from constituents, the media, lobbyists, and pressure groups.
• Manage and progress portfolio of casework appropriately.
• Analyse, evaluate, and interpret data to ensure the MP is accurately informed on key issues and is aware of trends.
• Exercise a high level of autonomy in reaching decisions on cases based on the evidence.
• Engage professionally, confidentially with care and integrity with members of the public, through telephone enquiries, social media, emails, and face-to-face.
• There may be requirement for the role holder to work outside of normal hours and travel for work occasionally.
Skills required include:
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• An ability to provide good customer service and to help constituents in a positive, helpful, sympathetic, sensitive and non-judgemental manner
• Ability to prioritise, manage own workload and project management skills
• Good IT skills – experience of Canva, CRM databases and web skills would be a bonus
• Able to work well individually and as part of a team
• Experience of advising on subjects such as housing, benefits or immigration issues or community advocacy work would be beneficial
Upon appointment you will be required to apply for security clearance, undertaken by the Security Vetting and Pass Office. See Members’ Staff Security Clearance page for further info. MPs generally pay staff in accordance with IPSA guidelines.
Closing Date: 15 July 2024
Interview/Start Dates
Interviews: week commencing 22 July 2024
Start date: ASAP
Application Details
Headed: Application for Senior Caseworker Post
CV, plus letter of application (one side of A4)
To: emma@emmaforwycombe.org.uk
Website: http://emmaforwycombe.org.uk