Welfare Rights Assistant - ANG

Job Description

Based at County Buildings, Market Street, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

You will be required to give advice and assistance to clients in relation to welfare benefits and debt issues.

The service is delivered via a mixture of telephone/digital and face to face communication.

Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 12 August 2026.

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website  for more information about working for Angus Council.

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.