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Relief Contract - supporting with hours just at the weekend, during the week or both. Hours are 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm.
Relief contracts available in Corby/Kettering and Wellingborough areas. Hours available between 7am and 11pm, Monday to Sunday - consisting of early shifts (7-3) and late shifts (3-11).
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Location: West Glebe Centre, Forest Gate Road, Corby
Closing Date: 30/06/2026
Job Category: Support Workers
Organisation: North Northamptonshire Council
Benefits
- 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.
About the role
We’re seeking to recruit some great new Community Enablement Workers people with the right values and positive attitude to work within theSpecialist Support for Younger Adults team– could this be you?
- Our customers are aged between 18‑65 and have a range of physical and learning needs.
- We support them with personal care, manual handling, medication, food and drink, finances and shopping.
We are looking for staff to work the following:
- Weekends only (Saturdays and Sundays every week - 7AM TO 3PM OR 3PM TO 11PM.)
- Day and Evening Shifts throughout the week - 7AM TO 3PM OR 3PM TO 11PM.
We also have the below incentives:
- Enhanced rates of working from 8am until 8pm and further enhancements on Sundays and Bank Holidays
- Business mileage paid at 45p an hour
What will you be doing?
The purpose of this job is to provide high quality support and care to customers in their own homes within a wider community. To enable them to remain independent whilst supporting their wellbeing, rights and choices. To also support with any reablement needs and providing personal support where required.
- To support people within their own home to live an independent life.
- With reference to the individual’s care plan provide practical and emotional support to customers to help them maintain independent living. In appropriate cases:
- Assist customers with physical disabilities to carry out activities, hygiene routines and manage medication as directed within their care plans to help maintain health and wellbeing;
- Assist customers to undertake practical tasks to help maintain their physical wellbeing and/or improve their living conditions.
- With reference to the individual’s care plan promote independence through the provision of information to customers and through liaison with carers, internal and external agencies. Part of your role will be to support people within their local community enabling them with volunteer placements, budgeting, social activities, and future planning of goals.
- You will be responsible for updating daily record sheets, any communication with outside agencies and ensuring that any changes to the individual’s needs, are documented and reported to ensure that the care plan is a live document, whilst utilising departmental electronic record systems.
- Undertake risk assessments, manual handling, and medication assessments in order to safeguard customers and staff, as well as to meet service standards.
- You will be regularly reviewing the customers progress, monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the support plan whilst documenting adjustments where necessary. You will ensure that all changes within the persons care package are communicated back to managers.
About you
- Satisfactory clearance of an enhanced Disclosure and Barring service check.
- Educated to GCSE or Equivalent
- Care Certificate (or willing to work towards)
- Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or willing to work towards)
- Proven experience in health or care work
- Experience of delivering care services in a community-based setting
- Demonstrate an interest in working in this area and the ability to undertake the role
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Sufficient to write clear, concise, and accurate reports and to enable effective communication with a number of agencies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and interact effectively with and on behalf of customers and to react appropriately to a crisis situation
- Practical approach to resolving problems and achieving results
- Full UK driving licence
- Flexible, adaptable, and tolerant to meet the needs of the service
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role
- Ability to attend, successfully complete and understand the need for mandatory training
- Able to inform customers on benefits and application systems
- Able to work within set procedures and systems
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
- Understanding of equality standards and diversity issues and their impact in social care services
Disability & Equality Statement
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.
