Community Enablement Worker
North Northants
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Job summary
North Northamptonshire Council seeks Community Enablement Workers to provide high-quality support to customers in their homes, promoting independence and wellbeing within the community. Role involves following care plans, assisting with daily living tasks, medication management, and liaising with carers and agencies.
The role offers hybrid/flexible working, enhanced pay for unsociable hours and ongoing training and progression opportunities within a large unitary authority.
Qualifications
- Satisfactory clearance of enhanced DBS check.
- Educated to GCSE or equivalent.
- Care Certificate (or willing to work towards).
- Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or willing to work towards).
- Proven experience in health or care work.
- Experience of delivering care services in a community-based setting.
- Able to travel effectively to various locations, using a vehicle.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and interact effectively with customers.
- Flexible, adaptable, and tolerant to meet the needs of the service.
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role.
- Ability to attend mandatory training.
- Able to inform customers on benefits and application systems.
- Able to work within set procedures and systems.
- Awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and diversity issues.
Responsibilities
- To support people within their own home to live an independent life.
- With reference to the care plan provide practical and emotional support to customers to help them maintain independent living.
- Assist customers with physical disabilities to carry out activities, hygiene routines and manage medication as directed within their care plans.
- Assist customers to undertake practical tasks to help maintain physical wellbeing and/or improve living conditions.
- Promote independence through information and liaison with carers and agencies; support with volunteer placements, budgeting, social activities and future planning.
- Update daily records and communication with outside agencies; ensure changes to needs are documented as a live care plan.
- Undertake risk assessments, manual handling, and medication assessments to safeguard customers and staff.
- Regularly review progress and report changes to managers.
Skills
Education
Job description
Are you caring, positive and looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference every day?Become a Community Enablement Worker!
We're seeking to recruit some great new Community Enablement Workers to join our Enablement Team. We're looking for people with the right values, a positive attitude, and a passion for supporting others. Could this be you?
We support a diverse range of people with varying levels of need, helping them to develop independence and remain active members of their local communities. Support is tailored to the individual and may include:
- Accessing community facilities, activities, and services.
- Travel and bus training to build confidence and independence.
- Establishing and maintaining daily routines and life skills.
- Exploring employment, education, training, and volunteering opportunities.
- Personal care and support with daily living activities.
- Medication management and promoting safe self-administration where appropriate.
- Budgeting, financial management, and developing money management skills.
- Signposting and connecting people to relevant services and community resources.
- Housing-related support to help individuals maintain and sustain their accommodation.
- Providing practical and emotional support to overcome barriers and achieve personal goals.
- Providing support with moving and handling activities, where required, in line with care plans, risk assessments, and safe working practices.
Our focus is on promoting independence, choice, and wellbeing, enabling people to live fulfilling lives within their communities and reach their full potential.
Working Patterns Available
As a Community Enablement Worker, you'll have the flexibility to work across a variety of shifts that meet the needs of the service. Our service is open Monday to Sunday, 365 Days a year.
Vacancy 1: 22 hours - 7:15am to 12:45pm shifts.
Vacancy 2: 37 hours - A mixture of early and late shifts
Extra reasons to join North Northamptonshire Council
Enhanced pay rates for Unsociable Hours,Sundays and Bank Holidays
Enhanced overtime payments
Business mileage paid at 55p per mile
Training, development, and career progression opportunities within a large and ambitious unitary authority
Make a Difference Every Day
This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to support people to achieve greater independence, build confidence and live fulfilling lives.
The purpose of this job is to provide high quality support and care to customers in their own homes within a wider community. To enable them to remain independent whilst supporting their wellbeing, rights and choices. To also support with any reablement needs and providing personal support where required.
- To support people within their own home to live an independent life.
- With reference to the individual’s care plan provide practical and emotional support to customers to help them maintain independent living. In appropriate cases:
- Assist customers with physical disabilities to carry out activities, hygiene routines and manage medication as directed within their care plans to help maintain health and wellbeing;
- Assist customers to undertake practical tasks to help maintain their physical wellbeing and/or improve their living conditions.
- With reference to the individual’s care plan promote independence through the provision of information to customers and through liaison with carers, internal and external agencies. Part of your role will be to support people within their local community enabling them with volunteer placements, budgeting, social activities, and future planning of goals.
- You will be responsible for updating daily record sheets, any communication with outside agencies and ensuring that any changes to the individual’s needs, are documented and reported to ensure that the care plan is a live document, whilst utilising departmental electronic record systems.
- Undertake risk assessments, manual handling, and medication assessments in order to safeguard customers and staff, as well as to meet service standards.
- You will be regularly reviewing the customers progress, monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the support plan whilst documenting adjustments where necessary. You will ensure that all changes within the persons care package are communicated back to managers.
- Satisfactory clearance of an enhanced Disclosure and Barring service check.
- Educated to GCSE or Equivalent
- Care Certificate (or willing to work towards)
- Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or willing to work towards)
- Proven experience in health or care work
- Experience of delivering care services in a community-based setting
- Able to travel effectively to various locations, using a vehicle
- Demonstrate an interest in working in this area and the ability to undertake the role
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Sufficient to write clear, concise, and accurate reports and to enable effective communication with a number of agencies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and interact effectively with and on behalf of customers and to react appropriately to a crisis situation
- Practical approach to resolving problems and achieving results
- Flexible, adaptable, and tolerant to meet the needs of the service
- Able to meet the physical requirements of the role
- Ability to attend, successfully complete and understand the need for mandatory training
- Able to inform customers on benefits and application systems
- Able to work within set procedures and systems
- Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
- Understanding of equality standards and diversity issues and their impact in social care services
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 thanyou think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- 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 (28days, rising to 33days) 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.
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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- Salary £30,023 to £31,015 (FTE) or £15.56 to £16.08 per hour
- Job Reference Ref/31673/9706
- Contract Type Full Time
- Contract Details Full Time and Part Time contract available.
- Closing Date 31 December, 2026
- Job Category Social Care - Adults
- Location OFFICE BASE: West Glebe Centre, Forest Gate Road, Corby, United Kingdom
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