About the role
Our Day Centre Officers enable our customers to plan, develop and grow to achieve their goals, maximising potential and raising aspirations. Networking with external agencies, including employers, is a crucial part of this role to ensure our customers have both choice and chance in all aspects of learning, independence, volunteering, and employment. A key worker, advocate, and champion for employment for all is what makes a DCO within the LIVE team. You will promote our service positively, highlighting strengths and outcomes whilst providing guidance and encouragement. Supporting and developing our wider team, including supervising, and supporting staff, with equal focus on your personal skill development and training needs is essential, as is contributing to a positive and productive workspace for our customers and team to flourish within.
What will you be doing?
You will be supporting our customers to reach their full potential, work towards, and achieve their learning, independence, volunteering, and employment goals. You will supervise a team of Community Enablement Workers, creating a productive and empowered workplace with our customers at the heart of everything we do.
About you
You will be a confident communicator able to dynamically risk assess. You will champion employment for all with focus on what people can do, creating choice and chance for our customers and demonstrating a strength-based approach. Your values will reflect ours and customer focus, efficiency, respect, trust, and support will be reflected in all aspects of your approach and delivery. You will be confident with IT and able to undertake administrative elements of the role, which includes risk assessments, and deliver with accuracy and to deadline.
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 us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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