About the role
We have a unique opportunity for someone to join our team to provide practical support for work led and experience-based learning for adults with disabilities.
Supporting individuals to gain the skills and experience to enable them to move to voluntary or paid work and provide practical support, training, and encouragement so that trainees can build on their own skills and abilities whilst respecting their individual needs and choices.
The role is 3 days a week, 8.50am-3.20pm some flexibility may be required depending on service need.
Our other benefits include:
- An excellent defined benefit pension scheme including life assurance benefits.
- Outstanding occupational sick; maternity/paternity and shared parental leave schemes.
- Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with length of service and ability to buy more.
- A supportive management team.
- Training and development and access to the fully funded apprenticeship scheme.
What will you be doing?
The Supporting into Work projects in Fenland currently include Community Cafes at two venues in March, your role will be to support trainees in the running of the café, preparing and serving food and drinks in the public facing cafes. You will also support with skills in baking and preparing products for sale, handling of payments and promoting excellent customer service as the trainees work towards employment and developing life skills.
About you
Due to the nature of the work and the working environment the post holder will often be lone working and will not readily have support and/or supervision available. They will therefore need to be able to respond immediately to emergency situations or other challenging situations by assessing the situation as it arises and the consequence level of risk to the service user and others.
We are looking for someone who has an awareness of issues facing people with learning and/or physical disabilities, experience in a customer facing role and promoting skills for those individuals with a disability. They will also need to be flexible and adaptable as the service grows and develops.
For an informal chat about this role please contact Lisa Lofting on 01354 750202
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
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.
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 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.
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