Debt Free Advice provides free face-to-face debt advice service helping over 24,000 Londoners with their debt and money problems each year since we formed in 2006.
Our trained and accredited advisors are employed by Toynbee Hall, the lead partner for Debt Free Advice, and our 15 other partner advice charities. On these pages, you'll find current vacancies for all roles that support the delivery of Debt Free Advice.
Benefits at Debt Free Advice
As well as awesome colleagues and work that improves the lives of Londoners every day, there are loads of ways we help our colleagues do the best work of their lives. We often review and enhance them, but here’s a brief overview of the benefits we offer right now. If you’d like more information on any of them, just ask!
Compensation
- Competitive salary for each role
- Salary reviewed annually
Holiday
- 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays - please use them all!
- This increases to 28 days after two years, 29 days after your third year and rises to a total of 30 days after five complete years!
Pension
- We'll automatically enrol you into our pension scheme with Standard Life
- We offer a 4% employer pension contribution on top of your salary
- You'll need to pay 5% too, and you can opt to pay more for the tax benefits!
- You can opt out if you'd rather not have a pension at all
Health & Wellbeing
- Generous paid sick leave for both physical & mental health - weeks full, 12 weeks half pay when you've done a year of service
- Paid time off for medical and dental appointments
- Contribution towards eye tests and spectacles
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, legal & bereavement support
Learning
- Learning budget for books, training courses and conferences
- Regular knowledge-sharing sessions
Commuting
- We're a member of the cycle-to-work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
Community
- Two days a year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and make difference in the community
- Paid off for public duties e.g local Councillor or School Govenor
Family
- Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave
- Up to two days paid time off for domestic emergencies
- Paid compassionate leave
Vacancies at Debt Free Advice
Toynbee Hall is the lead partner of Debt Free Advice, and the employer for these current vacancies:
Trainee Debt Advisor x 5 (FTC until 31 March 2025)
Salary: £28,350 per year
Working hours: Full Time – 35 hours per week
Location: Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St. E1 6LS OR DFA, Barking Learning Centre, IG11 7NB
Reporting to: Advice Manager
Contract: FTC until 31 March 2025
Application Closing Date: 20 October 2024
Vacancies with our partners
Senior Debt Adviser
Salary: £36,685 per year
Working hours: Full Time
Location: Walthamstow, Greater London
Contract: 31st March 2026 - with the possibility of extension subject to funding
Application Closing Date: 27 November 2024 at 23:30