Welfare Rights Caseworker

Apply before 5pm on 25 February 2026.

Job summary

• Salary
• 31,246
• Location
• Cheshire West
• Workplace
• Hybrid working
• Contract
• Permanent
• Hours per week
• 37 (will consider job share)

How to apply

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About the role

The Opportunity

• We are seeking a confident and experienced Welfare Rights Caseworker to join our established Welfare Rights Team. This is a rewarding role where you will deliver high-quality welfare benefits advice to clients across Cheshire West, managing a varied caseload.

• You will play a vital role in helping people access their entitlements, resolving complex benefit issues, preparing appeal submissions with some representing clients at tribunal.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Providing specialist welfare benefits casework to clients in a community or home setting

• Managing a caseload efficiently and to a high quality standard

• Preparing written appeal submissions

• Representing clients at tribunal when necessary

• Working collaboratively as part of a supportive and committed team

About You

• You will be an experienced welfare rights caseworker who is motivated by making a real difference to people’s lives. You will bring:

• Recent, relevant experience of providing welfare benefits casework

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong organisational and case management abilities

• A collaborative, team-focused approach

• Experience of preparing appeal submissions

Who We Are

• We are the largest advice provider in the Cheshire West area, supported by over 100 employees and volunteers. Our work makes a real impact in the community, and we are proud to offer a supportive, inclusive, and flexible working environment.

What We Offer

• Flexible and hybrid working wherever possible

• Enhanced holiday and sick pay entitlement

• A strong focus on staff health and wellbeing

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

We’re Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme that supports employers to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people.