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Community Enablement Worker

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)
Evening Shifts throughout the week (3pm-10pm, 4pm-11pm)

These hours can be implemented into a part time or relief contract, depending on availability.

Part time staff needed - fixed term for 18 Months with possible extension

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.

What will you be doing?

Purpose of the job

The purpose of this job is to provide high quality support and care to customers in their own homes within a wider community. To enable them to remain independent whilst supporting their wellbeing, rights and choices. To also support with any reablement needs and providing personal support where required.

Principal responsibilities

To support people within their own home to live an independent life.

With reference to the individual’s care plan provide practical and emotional support to customers to help them maintain independent living. In appropriate cases:

Assist customers with physical disabilities to carry out activities, hygiene routines and manage medication as directed within their care plans to help maintain health and wellbeing;

Assist customers to undertake practical tasks to help maintain their physical wellbeing and/or improve their living conditions.

With reference to the individual’s care plan promote independence through the provision of information to customers and through liaison with carers, internal and external agencies. Part of your role will be to support people within their local community enabling them with volunteer placements, budgeting, social activities, and future planning of goals.

You will be responsible for updating daily record sheets, any communication with outside agencies and ensuring that any changes to the individual’s needs, are documented and reported to ensure that the care plan is a live document, whilst utilising departmental electronic record systems.

Undertake risk assessments, manual handling, and medication assessments in order to safeguard customers and staff, as well as to meet service standards.

You will be regularly reviewing the customers progress, monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the support plan whilst documenting adjustments where necessary. You will ensure that all changes within the persons care package are communicated back to managers.

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

Our benefits

We offer:

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.
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
agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:

helping people live active fulfilled lives
caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
enabling a thriving and successful economy
leading on a green and sustainable environment
ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

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