Disability Benefits Officer

12 Months Fixed Term Contract /Secondment Opportunity Hackney is one of the most dynamic and progressive local authorities in the UK. We are a resilient, vibrant, and creative borough in the heart of London, with strong, diverse communities and a powerful set of shared values. Over the past twenty years, the Council has built up first-class services, outstanding public infrastructure, and a reputation for excellence, innovation, and ambition. We are leading the way on essential work such as our fight for equity in Hackney with a particular focus on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. But the work doesn''t stop there, we are proactive in our approach to bringing fairness to all aspects of life including gender, neurodiversity and across the poverty divide. Hackney Here To Help is an easily accessible, resident-facing, multi-disciplinary service that brings together benefits advice with assessment for a range of discretionary grants, in a delivery model that has data-led, active community outreach at its heart. One of our core goals is increasing residents'' income by tackling benefits under-claiming in the borough. The Income Maximisation Team, within which this role sits, is focussed on increasing income for some of the borough''s most vulnerable residents, by ensuring that they claim and contest disability benefits. It is a highly skilled and successful team, generating over £1.5m in additional income over the past three years for residents. In this role you will ..... full job details .....