As a Community Enablement Worker within the LIVE team you will be supporting adults with complex disabilities work towards, and achieve their Learning, Independence, Volunteering and Employment goals.
LIVE is an enabling service. We encourage and support positive risk taking.
As a CEW you will work with our customers to create vocational profiles and development plans, focussed on goals and ambitions. Raising ambition and challenging fears, stereotypes and myths will be an important part of your role.
You will be based at a LIVE site as well as within the community, and onsite with employers. We believe everybody can work and achieve with the right support. Our CEW team are key to understanding what support needs to look like and how we can best deliver to meet the needs of our customers.
If you can help us smash glass ceilings and leap over barriers, we would love to hear from you.
Our benefits
* a competitive salary
* a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
* lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
* generous leave entitlement (28days, rising to 33days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
* hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
What will you be doing?
* Identifying support needs and identifying solutions and resolves
* Employer engagement
* Job coaching
* Raising ambitions and supporting people to achieve their full potential
* Working with customers in groups and on a one-to-one basis
* Supporting at places of work and within the community, including our LIVE projects
* Creating bespoke vocational profiles
* Working with customers to write development plans focussed on goals
* Supporting LIVE to raise our profile, positively risk take and break down barriers
About you
* Creative
* Patient
* Positive approach to problem solving
* Good communicator
* Team focussed
* Person centred approach. All about the can do, we are not about the can't
* Good IT skills
* Considerate
* Positive approach and committed to diversity and inclusion
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
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