About the role
Ely Accommodation Services is based in central Ely and supports tenants with learning disabilities in a supported living setting.
The role of a relief support worker is to work within a staff team of support workers to support and empower adults with a learning disability to enhance the quality of their life, maximise potential and to continue to promote and develop independence skills within their home and in the community.
What will you be doing?
You will report to senior support workers to ensure the service meets the CQC requirements.
You will ensure that information within the service is accurate and up to date and reviewed to meet requirements. This may include care plans, medication management and recording, health action plans, hospital passports, safeguarding, and accident and incident reports.
You will liaise with health professionals, ensuring MCA guidance is integrated in decision making.
The relief support worker post will support with covering when additional staff are required, these are flexible and can sometimes be at short notice. As a relief worker you will provide us with the hours you are available, and shifts would be offered on that basis. The shifts will be between the hours of 8.00am-10pm including bank holidays and weekends for which additional enhancements are paid. The flexibility is ideal for someone looking for a 2nd job or to fit around caring responsibilities.
The starting pay for the posts is £12.18 per hour (£18.27 Saturday hours- £21.31 Sunday hours, Bank Holidays £24.36).
About you
You will be completing a comprehensive training program and benefit from excellent career development opportunities as well as being part of a supportive team committed to delivering an excellent service for adults with disabilities.
You will need the commitment to complete training and qualifications and learn new skills whilst working alongside a supportive team.
Experience of working with vulnerable people at work or home will be helpful however more importantly you will need excellent verbal and written communication skills including IT skills and able to think creatively. You will also need to have a sensitive and professional approach showing understanding of confidentiality in and outside the service.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Tracey Tunnell (Tracey.Tunnell@cambridgeshire.gov.uk)
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 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.
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