Essex County Council
Advanced Skills Worker
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About The Role
Advanced Skills Worker
Permanent, Full Time
£33,049 to £37,689 per annum
Location: Clacton on Sea
Working Style: Fixed-base worker
Closing Date: 20th July 2026
This role will be part of the senior team, supporting the Manager and Deputy Manager as well as working alongside a team of staff supporting adults with a learning disability and/or autism. The role includes some shifts in the office shift-leading and other shifts in the Houses/flats supporting adults with everyday living skills in readiness to move on in the future.
The Advanced Skills Worker role is a rewarding role where you can really make a difference. The role is responsible for the effective practice in a residential home environment, providing support and guidance to adults and their families to ensure robust support through excellent adult social care practice. It is essential that a caring, safe and secure environment is created on a day-to-day basis alongside specialist expertise to enhance the opportunities to improve outcomes for people.
As an experienced and a professional practitioner, you will utilise your expertise in care planning and work directly with adults and colleagues to meet individual outcomes. You will also provide day-to-day practice guidance to other residential home staff and will formally supervise other residential workers and assistants as determined by the homes manager.
About Us
With us, you can achieve more – for yourself as well as the vulnerable adults you work to support. We encourage our teams to share their ideas and experience. We work together to get things done. Bring your positive, proactive attitude, and we’ll empower you to make the most of your experience as an Advanced Skills Worker within Essex County Council (ECC) Adult Social Care services.
About You
Candidates must have extensive experience within the care setting and have experience as a Team Leader or Senior Staff member.
We are seeking people who are committed to enabling people with a Learning disability and/or autism to live meaningful lives. You will be an experienced and professional practitioner who clearly evidences their support of adults by working collaboratively with them to establish a positive working relationship. You know that if people’s interventions are based on their strengths, hopes and dreams that they will thrive.
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This role will involve working a shift pattern, which includes weekends and some public holidays, as well as Sleep in duties.
What We Offer In Return
We’ll support you to be to your best, with the resources, training and development to empower you. With flexible working options and other lifestyle benefits, we’ll enable you to make the most of your life outside work, too.
To read more about our business area, please visit: [Adult Social Care](Adult Social Care)
Why Essex?
As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we’re committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you.
In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government’s devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. You can read more about devolution and local government reorganisation (LGR) on our careers site.
Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.
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Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.
At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.
The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.
As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service
Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
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If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email ami.fosker@essex.gov.uk
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