• Salary: £23,088 per annum

  • Department: Consumer Service

  • Reports to: Team Leader

  • Location: Barry

  • Contract type: Permanent

  • Working hours: 37 hours

  • Interview date: 13th & 14th February 2025

  • Closing date: 14th February 2025

  • Start date: 17th March 2025 (fixed start date)

About us

Citizens Advice Cardiff & Vale is an independent charity and member of the Local Citizens Advice network. We help people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent, impartial and confidential advice on a range of issues. We are funded to provide services to people in the local area as well as across England and Wales.

Role overview

You will be part of one of our Consumer Adviser teams, delivering advice on consumer law and energy supply issues to clients. Our teams are diverse, with a range of experiences, and work together in our Barry office, delivering advice to clients via telephone, email and webchat.

We also deliver the Welsh language Consumer Service Helpline. Therefore, we are actively recruiting Welsh-speaking advisers. Fluent Welsh speakers will receive an additional £2,000 per annum once they have passed their probation period.

For more information, please read our job description.

Why work for us?

  • 30 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

  • Additional leave entitlement for long service

  • Lots of learning and development opportunities

  • Great work/life balance with no evening or weekend work

  • Perks available through our employee platform

  • Cash plan health cover (after completion of probationary period)

Apply

You can use the form below to submit your CV. We welcome applications in the Welsh language.

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

Our ambition is to work together to promote a more inclusive environment that attracts everybody with the right skills and experience and signals our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity.

We are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge as we recognise that diversity makes us stronger.

Please note that we are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK points-based immigration system, as we do not hold a sponsorship licence.

Disability Confident

We are Disability Confident employer. Disability Confident is a government initiative to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It is voluntary and has been developed by employers and disabled people’s representatives. Being a Disability Confident employer means that we commit to:

  • All of the actions to be Disability Confident employer

  • Offering at least one activity to get the right people for our organisation

  • At least one activity to keep and develop our people

  • Undertaking and successfully completing the Disability Confident self-assessment

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Why work with us?

  • Generous annual leave package

  • Competitive salaries

  • Continuous training and development

  • Great work/life balance

  • Excellent public transport links

  • Employee assistance programme