Council Tax Apprentice
Qualification: Revenues and Welfare Benefits Level 4
Contract length: 24 months
Camden Council's Revenue and Contracts team is recruiting a Council Tax Apprentice.
This role is key to supporting residents within Camden and ensuring the Council’s financial security. This is achieved through the fair and effective collection of Council Tax. The apprentice will learn to deliver a service that is customer focused, awards discounts and exemptions fairly, ensuring proportionate and effective debt collection and delivering a 'right first-time' approach to billing.
Duties
- Learn the required technical, legislative, and procedural (including account processing) skills required to develop you into a Council Tax Officer
- Assist the Council Tax team with tasks that will enable the timely and accurate billing and recovery of Council Tax. As your skills, knowledge and experience develop, the complexity of your work you will increase. This will provide you with the right experience to apply for future Council Tax officer vacancies.
- Ensure any lists/reports and written correspondence is dealt with accurately and in a timely fashion. This will ensure bills are issued right first time, including the awarding of eligible discounts and allocation of any missing payments relating to the case being dealt with. This reduces the risk of delays in collection due to incorrect billing.
- Study and complete the apprenticeship qualification. For the duration of your contract, you will be required to ensure any online or in person training is attended, coursework completed, and you comply with the requirements of the course.
- Work with peers across the wider revenues service (such as Council Tax) and assist with tasks or duties that will underpin effective service delivery. This can include project work with the wider customer services division, designed to improve Camden's customer journey for both our business and residential communities.
Essential criteria
- Ability to learn how to use a range of IT based systems and interpret the information from them including word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
- Ability to analyse information and demonstrate good literacy, oral and written communication skills that will enable you to engage with work colleagues and residents in the Borough.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to pay attention to detail and use problem solving skills to ensure you balance the requirements of the role with your formal apprentice training, including coursework and exams.
- Ability to show personal resilience when faced with challenges.
- Ability to work flexibly, balancing competing priorities to meet deadlines with an understanding of the impact not doing this has on residents and the Council.
- Ability to develop an understanding of why data protection compliance and data sharing is key to protecting the interests of our residents.