Employability Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

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. Our Employability Support Workers support 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, hours are generally 8.50am-4pm some flexibility may be required depending on service need.

For an informal chat about this role please contactKayleigh Dring on 07776 679496

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation and the communities we serve.

Appointment to this post 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.

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.

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 caf, 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.

You will have an awareness of working with people with learning and/or physical disabilities, experience in a customer facing role and promoting skills for those individuals with a disability. You will also be flexible and adaptable as the service grows and develops. You will also ideally have skills with baking as this is a large part of the role.

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. You 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.

Please be aware this role is for 20.5 hours per week every week on a rota and there is no flexibility with the hours offered. As this role is part time, it does not meet the salary requirement for us to be able to offer sponsorship.

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 dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont 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 Leader. 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. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process 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

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Cambridge

PE15 8AJ

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)