Community Support Worker (E3317)
Community Support Worker
The role is to provide support for tenants to live in their own homes and access their local and wider community.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
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We are looking to recruit staff to work in at the Knutsford Supported Living Network.
Support is provided 24/7 and focussed on enabling individuals to maximise their independence and choice.
Support provided consists of assisting tenants with all aspects of daily living , household management (i.e. cleaning tasks, weekly food shopping , preparation of meals, managing finances and accessing community services.
In addition care is provided to tenants in accordance with assessed needs reflected within individual tenants care and support plans which may include assistance with personal care , administration of medication , accessing community services i.e. GP services , attending hospital appointments.
Experience of working within the care sector is desirable however if you have the necessary qualities required for the role , have a friendly and positive approach we would welcome your application.
Induction and training will be given to the successful applicants.
If you are interested in finding out more about the role please contact Andy Brandon on 07738962974 or andrew.brandon@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk
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