The Service & Team:
CHAMPs stands for Cornwall Health And Making Partnerships and are a team of adults with learning disabilities and/or autistic people who work tirelessly to improve the health outcomes for residents of Cornwall who are autistic or have leaning disabilities. They do this by delivering accessible health interventions such as Healthy Me course, accessible ‘Diabetes & You’ course, training, hospital checking to ensure that reasonable adjustments are in place. The team sit on both the Learning Disability Partnership Board and the Autism Partnership Board ensuring their voices are heard. The team also manage the ‘Safe Places’ scheme on behalf of the council and in partnership with the police. The CHAMPs also produce Easy Read on behalf of the council to ensure documents are accessible to our residents.
Job Description
The Service & Team:
CHAMPs stands for Cornwall Health And Making Partnerships and are a team of adults with learning disabilities and/or autistic people who work tirelessly to improve the health outcomes for residents of Cornwall who are autistic or have leaning disabilities. They do this by delivering accessible health interventions such as Healthy Me course, accessible ‘Diabetes & You’ course, training, hospital checking to ensure that reasonable adjustments are in place. The team sit on both the Learning Disability Partnership Board and the Autism Partnership Board ensuring their voices are heard. The team also manage the ‘Safe Places’ scheme on behalf of the council and in partnership with the police. The CHAMPs also produce Easy Read on behalf of the council to ensure documents are accessible to our residents.
The Role
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
* a competitive salary.
* a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
* a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
* A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
* Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Shelagh Mitchell at shelagh.mitchell@cornwall.gov.uk
(or 07805 738045).
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Easy Read Application Form
Easy Read Safeguarding Form
Return Easy Read Job Applications To
Shelagh Mitchell
CHAMPs ROOM
New County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
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