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Payment Support Officer

Salary - £26,403 - £28,142 (Grade 4)

Hours – 37

Contract type - 2x Full time, Permanent

Workstyle - Flexible

City of Wolverhampton Council are seeking to recruit a Payments Officer within the Financial Wellbeing Team.

This is an exciting and excellent opportunity to work in as a member of a creative and passionate team, assisting mitigate the ongoing challenges in relation to the Cost of Living and help to ensure timely response to financial crisis.

Working collectively, you will ensure that Crisis and Resilience Fund reach those most in need, processing payments, maintaining accurate records, and having the ability to respond to need consistently and creatively.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a good knowledge of payment systems and data bases
• The ability to develop and maintain new partnerships
• To ensure clear and accurate reporting and recording
• Work as a member of the wider Financial wellbeing Team
• Assist individual residents to access crisis payment without delay.
• Support new initiatives and adapt to the changing service demands
• Ability to work at high pace, and with own initiative to achieve outcomes.
• Be solution focused in a challenging landscape

This post is subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

For full details of the responsibilities and requirements of this role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

If you are interested in applying and require further information on this position, please contact Satvinder Goraya email Satvinder.Goraya2@wolverhampton.gov.uk

NJC Pay Award for 2026 / 2027:

The annual pay increases for 2026/27 for NJC Local Government Employees are currently being negotiated and, once agreed, will be effective from 1 April 2026.

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