Leicester City Council
Support Worker
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Reference: REQ7483
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Part Time / 18.5 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 12 Months due to backfilling secondment
Are you an experienced support worker with enthusiasm and creativity in your approach? If so, this is a great opportunity to support children and their families to identify and arrange suitable short break activities, by working in partnership with other agencies and services.
The Disabled Children's Service supports children and young people aged 0-19 years who have a range of physical and learning disabilities and challenging behaviours to access short break services in a variety of settings including services within their own home.
You'll be required to work across the city to visit service users and attend meetings, working flexibly including evenings, weekends, and school holidays due to the nature of the role.
If you are passionate about working with children and young people with disabilities, then we would love to hear from you.
We will consider this vacancy on a secondment basis for Leicester City Council employees. If you wish to apply for this post on a secondment basis then please make your line manager aware before applying.
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What You’ll Be Doing
As a support worker, you’ll undertake short break assessments to identify needs and formulate person centred support packages. This will include identifying and arranging suitable short break activities and enabling children to develop their skills and make friends, providing the parents and carer’s a valuable break from their caring roles.
What You’ll Need
- You’ll have previous experience of working with children and young people with disabilities and complex needs.
- With a strong understanding of inclusion and equality issues, and the development needs of children, you’ll effectively create, arrange, and support a range of suitable activities.
- Using your excellent verbal and written communication skills, you’ll facilitate group and individual work, complete short break enquiries and assessments, and review short break packages.
- With a respectful and tactful manner, you’ll motivate change and work positively in a team.
- With proficient IT skills, you’ll be able to use software such as Liquid Logic and Early help Module systems to record information for your caseload.
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This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
National Care Minimum Standards apply under The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9 Part 1 so Applicants must be aged 21 and over.
To apply
Please complete our online application form, referring to the attached person specification and ensuring you tell us about your experience and knowledge where this is being measured by application form.
For further information please contact Debbie Lee at Debbie.Lee@leicester.gov.uk
Region: Central
Location: New Parks House
Salary: GBP32,061 - GBP34,434 Per Year (to be pro rated for part time)
Package: Total benefit value to be pro rated for part time (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP46,953.83
Contractual hours: 18.5
Basis: Part time
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