Support Workers
Perks & Benefits:
We are looking for highly motivated, creative, and enthusiastic Support Workers based at Horizon and The Birches day centres in Cambridge. These positions involve supporting adults with learning disabilities and older people in the community and within the day service.
We are looking for staff who are interested and skilled in running activities such as physical exercise, crafts, gardening, cooking and music, and who can support our service users to access community resources, for example, swimming pools, shops, and the local library.
For more information, or to chat about this opportunity, please contact Beth at Horizon on 01223 714700 or at [email protected]
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?You will be assisting our service users with all aspects of their care, including personal care, empowering them to maintain their independence and well-being.
You will organise activity sessions within the centres to help us ensure a varied timetable of activities throughout the week.
The hours for these roles are full time, Monday - Friday from 8.55am to 4.10pm with a 5pm finish on Tuesdays.
Please note this role does not meet the salary requirement for us to be able to offer sponsorship.
We offer excellent training and the opportunity to be part of a supportive team committed to delivering excellent services for people in Cambridge.
About youYou will have completed the Level 2 Care skills qualification in Health and Social care or an equivalent recognised qualification. You will be creative and enthusiastic and will be able to run, and participate in, exciting and engaging activities with older people and adults with learning disabilities.
As you will be in regular contact with service users, families, carers, other professionals, and partner agencies, you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills combined with a sensitive and professional approach.
An important aspect of the Support Worker role will be assisting people with their personal care, so you will have a practical, empathetic and supportive approach. You will also have a good understanding of equal opportunities, a person-centred approach and diversity.
Please use your supporting statement within your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the attached Job Description.
Candidates will be progressed regularly and the opportunity will be filled as soon as we identify suitable candidates. So please don't hesitate, send your application in now !
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
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