Senior Support Worker

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About the role

Cherry Meadows (part of the St Luke's respite service) provides Respite and Supported Living services for adults with a learning disability. Our aim is to support and empower service users to enhance their quality of life, maximise potential and to continue to develop and promote independent skills within their own home, in the Respite service and in the community.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity, please contact Abigail Westwood, Registered Manager or Lucy Corney, Team Leader, Supported Living on 01480 456941.

Appointments to these posts will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a permanent Senior Support Worker, who is motivated, enthusiastic and a creative team player, committed to providing high quality support. You will need to be confident to undertake personal care tasks and have a willingness and capacity to work with people who may challenge. There is a requirement to work across services including both respite and supported living to meet service needs.

As a Senior, you will supervise, oversee and support the staff team including attending monthly staff meetings. Staff will have the benefits of regular supervision, annual appraisals and excellent training opportunities including face-face training and access to our new grey matters training portal.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week. You will be required to work a mixture of shifts, including earlies and lates. You will also be required to work every other weekend, and some sleep-ins. Enhancements are paid for unsocial hours and weekends. There is also an opportunity to work additional hours as a Relief Support Worker to meet service needs.

About you

You will be working towards or have completed NVQ health and Social Care Level 3 qualification.

There is a requirement to complete an induction which includes the new care certificate and all mandatory training which will include E-Learning modules. A willingness to undertake a qualification in social care is also essential.

Please read the job description and person specification very carefully, and ensure that you provide examples of how you meet the selection criteria.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 5th February 2025.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

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.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• CCC Employment Benefits Brochure [November 2024].pdf
• SSW JD-PS June 24 (2).pdf