Overview
Community Enablement Worker (CEW) – 0
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- 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 (28 days, rising to 33 days) 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.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
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.
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
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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