Community Rehabilitation Worker (Care Worker)

North Lincolnshire Council; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading council seeks a Community Rehabilitation Worker to support individuals recovering from illness or accidents, helping them regain independence. The role offers part-time hours, a collaborative working environment, and access to benefits typical of a Local Authority employee.

Benefits

Competitive Pension

Health scheme

Attractive annual leave allowance

Weekend and Bank holiday enhancements

Qualifications

• Experience in rehabilitation settings or similar.
• DBS Enhanced Check required.

Responsibilities

• Provide rehabilitation support following therapy plans.
• Assist with personal care and medication administration.
• Enhance social inclusion and emotional well-being.

Skills

Rehabilitation support

Personal care

Medication administration

Social inclusion

Communication

Job description

Community Rehabilitation Worker (Care Worker)

Salary: Grade 5 £17,843 to £19,340 per year plus enhancements for weekend working

Hours: 25 hours per week

DBS: Yes Enhanced with Barred List Check

This is a Permanent , Part Time vacancy that will close in 6 days at 23:59 BST .

The Vacancy

North Lincolnshire Home First Community support service is a registered Rehabilitation and Reablement service that provides time limited intervention and therapies to people within their own homes. We strive to deliver support that puts people at the centre of our services. Our aim is to ensure that a person can remain at home and feel confident and is safe to live as independently as possible.

Rehabilitation worker post holders provide rehabilitation support to individuals following accident or illness allowing a return to independence. This involves following therapy plans and working in conjunction with other health and social care professionals.

The role also involves direct work such as supporting with moving and handling, attending to personal care needs and administering medication as well as maximising opportunities for social inclusion and emotional wellbeing.

The role offers a fantastic work life balance through a 25 hour per week contract. This operates on a rolling rota basis requiring 3 to 4 to shifts per week, various hours on a rota pattern between the hours of 07:00 to 23:00. For those that would like more hours there is opportunity for working overtime including weekend enhancements.

As a Rehabilitation worker you will be part of a fast paced and developing service that has opportunities for further development and progression.

You will be working for an employer who cares about your health and wellbeing and offers confidential employee welfare and excellent supervisory and peer support.

As a council employee you will access to all the benefits of working for a Local Authority such as a competitive Pension, health scheme, attractive annual leave allowance as well as weekend and Bank holiday enhancements.

Location - Work will be carried out in people’s homes across all North Lincolnshire, teams work in geographical areas. The registered contractual base is Billet Lane Scunthorpe

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Please contact Michelle Lakin 01724 296294 for any further information.

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.

The Council

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.