Job Description

Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 5 - Hybrid+.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

You will primarily deal with housing benefit overpayment recovery along with council tax, council tax reduction, housing benefit, discretionary housing payments, Scottish Welfare fund, educational benefits and financial assessment enquiries both face to face, online and by telephone.

You may also be required to process council tax reduction and housing benefit applications, changes of circumstances and applications for discretionary housing payments, educational benefits, Scottish Welfare fund and financial assessments.

Duties may also require you to administer the billing and redemption of council tax.

This job is temporary for up to 12 months from date of appointment.

Internal and external applications on a secondment basis will be considered. You must have the approval of your line manager / organisation.

Please note interviews will be held Tuesday, 20 October 2026.

Requirements

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.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

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.

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