Overview
Relief Community Enablement Worker – NN171TP
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
We’re seeking to recruit some great new Community Enablement Workers; people with the right values and positive attitude to work within the Specialist Support for Younger Adults team – could this be you?
- Our customers are aged between 18-65 and have a range of physical and learning needs.
- We support them with personal care, manual handling, medication, food and drink, finances and shopping.
We are looking for staff to work the following:
- Weekends only (Saturdays and Sundays every week between the hours of 7am and 11pm)
- Day and Evening Shifts throughout the week between the hours of 7am and 11pm.
We also have the below incentives:
- Enhanced rates of working from 8pm until 8pm including Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays
- Enhanced overtime pay
- Business mileage paid at 45p an hour
- 28 days holiday, rising to 33 after 5 years of service.
About you
- Satisfactory clearance of an enhanced Disclosure and Barring service check.
- Educated to GCSE or Equivalent
- Care Certificate (or willing to work towards)
- Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or willing to work towards)
- Proven experience in health or care work
- Experience of delivering care services in a community-based setting
- Demonstrate an interest in working in this area and the ability to undertake the role
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Sufficient to write clear, concise, and accurate reports and to enable effective communication with a number of agencies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and interact effectively with and on behalf of customers and to react appropriately to a crisis situation
- Practical approach to resolving problems and achieving results
- Able to travel effectively to various locations, using a vehicle
- Flexible, adaptable, and tolerant to meet the needs of the service
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role
- Ability to attend, successfully complete and understand the need for mandatory training
- Able to inform customers on benefits and application systems
- Able to work within set procedures and systems
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
- Understanding of equality standards and diversity issues and their impact in social care services
About us
Cambridgeshire 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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
