Employability Support Worker

Main duties of the job

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, providing practical support, training, and encouragement so 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 8:30am-4:00pm, with some flexibility depending on service need. This part‑time role is 20.5 hours per 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.

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.

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 reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation and the communities we serve.

Job responsibilities

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. Ideally you will 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.

What will you be doing?

The Supporting into Work projects in Fenland currently include Community Cafes at two venues. Your role will be to support trainees in the running of the café, preparing and serving food and drinks in the public facing cafés, supporting with skills in baking and preparing products for sale, handling payments and promoting excellent customer service as the trainees work towards employment and developing life skills.

Benefits

- 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.

For an informal chat about this role please contact Kayleigh Dring on 07776 679496.

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.

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