Relief Support Worker

Cambridge Accommodation Services is based in central Cambridge and supports tenants with learning disabilities in supported living, residential and respite settings. The role of a Relief Support Worker is to work within a team of Support Workers to support and empower adults with a learning disability to enhance the quality of their life, maximise potential and to continue to promote and develop independence skills within their home and the community.
Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family


• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme


• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances


• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings


• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth


• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day


• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network


• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards


• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes


What will you be doing?

You will report to Senior Support workers to ensure the service meets the CQC requirements. You will ensure that information within the service is accurate and up to date and reviewed to meet requirements. This may include care plans, medication management and recording, health action plans, hospital passports, safeguarding and accident and incident reports.

You will liaise with Health Professionals, ensuring MCA guidance is integrated in decision making.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities, you will need the commitment to complete training and qualifications and learn new skills whilst working alongside a supportive team.

You will need to have a proficient level of written and spoken English for the purposes of case recording and to enable you to work towards a qualification in Health and Social Care if you do not already hold this qualification.

As a Support Worker, you will not need to have experience of supporting a person with a disability as training will be provided for the right candidate. Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as IT skills are required.

You will be able to demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion principles and anti-discriminatory practice. A good understanding of equal opportunities, person centred approach and diversity are all essential. Sometimes you will be lone working but will also work as part of the team in group activities., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

This post is a 0 hour contract and you will be called upon, as and when required, working various shifts between 08:00 and 22:00 hours as well as Bank Holidays and weekends, for which additional enhancements are paid.

The starting pay for the posts is £12.18 per hour (£18.27 Saturday hours, £21.31 Sunday hours and £24.36 for Bank Holidays).

You will be completing a comprehensive training programme and benefit from excellent career development opportunities as well as being part of a supportive team committed to delivering and excellent service for adults with disabilities.