Reablement Worker (E2525)
Reablement Worker
The Care4CE Community Reablement Team within Cheshire East Council is recruiting for frontline Reablement Workers across all areas of Cheshire East.
The head office is at Macclesfield Town Hall in Macclesfield with a satellite office at Westfields in Sandbach and the teams are split north and south.
The service contracts are permanent working 7am-11pm although our main core hours are 8am-10pm. Various shifts and contracts on offer which include travel time from 15 hours up to 37 hours per week.
Grade.5 start pay of £12.59 per hour incrementally over 4 years increasing to £13.47 per hour with a yearly pay rise.
Alternate weekend working is paid at time and half as are bank holidays except Xmas Day and Boxing Day are double pay. Shifts comprise of a mixture of mornings, afternoons, and evenings dependent upon contract hours.
You need to be a car driver with mileage paid at 52.2p per mile over 1,000cc. Electric and under 999cc engines are paid at 46.9p per mile.
Business use is required on your car insurance. A Uniform and DBS are provided.
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.
Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)
ABOUT THE ROLE
Reablement is part of the Integration Home First Agenda between Social Care and the NHS and is a short-term intervention to encourage individuals to achieve maximum independence with personal care and daily living skills, working in a person-centred manner. Our remit is to support discharges from the hospitals to complete assessments to Reable individuals back to independence or for ongoing care needs and rehabilitation of therapy exercises.
We also support hospital avoidance, working alongside the Urgent Community Response/Virtual Ward teams providing a same day response over a 72hour period when someone has a health crisis and are supported at home rather than being admitted to hospital when safe to do so, this also includes low level health care tasks, such as taking blood pressure, temperature, pulse, emergency first line simple wound dressings and end of life.
Full training and induction is provided.
ABOUT YOU
You will have:
- Effective teamwork and excellent communication skills
- An enthusiastic, flexible, and reliable approach to work
- Be empathetic and compassionate
- Able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
- Be person-centred in your approach in achieving the best outcomes for people
- Work to the Council`s values and behaviours
To find out more about our essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the `In this job you will need` section within the attached JDPS document.
WHAT WE GIVE IN RETURN
- ENHANCED ANNUAL LEAVE – 34 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) from day 1, increasing to 39 days after only 5 years` service
- ENHANCED PUBLIC PENSION – A career average pension (contributions built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
- EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME – A completely free to use and confidential assistance service for all employees to help staff manage, reduce, and overcome the impact of life issues which they may experience from time to time, both withing work and their personal life.
- VIRGIN MEDIA AND O2 DISCOUNTS – Exclusive discounts on Virgin Media Broadband and O1 pay monthly plans.
- DISCOUNTED GYM MEMBERSHIPS – Access to corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure which includes:
- Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
- Off-Peak Racket Sports
- Athletics Tracks
- Sauna/Steam/Spa
To find out more about our rewards and benefits package, please click here (insert this hyperlink https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/pdf/jobs-and-careers/ce-reward-brochure-digital-6970.pdf)
HOW TO APPLY
To apply for the role please click apply for this job at the bottom of the page, or, for an informal chat about the role please contact Sarah Webb or Andrea Weaver on 01625 372469
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information please contact the Resource Manager Sarah Webb or email Sarah.webb@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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