Community Support Worker - Children and Young People
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 the roleWe hope that you are looking at this advert because you want to join our brilliant team of Community Support Workers across Cambridgeshire, meeting the needs of disabled Children and Young People and their families.
Here are just a few of the places we are looking for Community Support Workers;
Cambridge, Huntingdon, Wisbech, Ely, Cambourne, St Ives and St Neots
Have a look below at what we’re looking for from you……
The children and young people who use our service are telling us that they want Community Support Workers who are prepared to join in with them, be interesting, good drivers, happy and smiley, adventurous and kind.
As well as being all of those things, to meet the needs of our young people you need to tell us what you know about…..
- Working within professional boundaries
- Showing respect for other’s feelings, views and circumstances
- Communicating and building rapport with both children and young people with varying needs, and their families
- Working independently, to organise and plan your own work load
You’ll need to bring…..
- Experience of working with children and young people or adults with a disability
- Understanding of the principles and limits of confidentiality
- Evidence of awareness of the impact of oppression and discrimination
- Consideration of the significance of safeguarding and;
- Diploma (or NVQ) at Level 2 in a Childcare related subject or be willing to work towards it
In return we will give you…..
- A really flexible way of working that meets your needs as well as ours
- High quality bespoke training in a variety of venues across the county
- Excellent support and supervision
- Confidence to grow and develop and build your skills
- A highly creative and dynamic team of people to work with
- The chance to help us shape and develop our services – your ideas are important to us!
If you want to find out more, please give us a call on 01480 379800 and someone will be able to talk to you about it.
To apply for this role, please upload your CV alongside a personal statement. Please use the attached job description and person specification to outline your key skills and achievements.
This is an ongoing recruitment campaign and applications are reviewed regularly.
A Driving Licence is essential for this role and business insurance is required on personal vehicles used for County Council business..
Please do not delay the submission of your application - we want to hear from you today!
About usCambridgeshire 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 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.