Community Support Worker

London Borough of Hounslow; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Community Support Worker to join their Community Access Service. In this fulfilling role, you'll support adults with learning disabilities and autism, helping them lead purposeful lives. You'll spend 80% of your time in the community, facilitating access to various activities and promoting independence. This opportunity allows you to develop your skills in co-production and partnership work while making a real difference in people's lives. If you're passionate about inclusivity and community engagement, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting people with learning disabilities and understanding barriers.
• Good communication and IT skills with knowledge of reporting procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support adults with learning disabilities in community activities.
• Facilitate opportunities and empower residents towards independence.

Skills

Experience with learning disabilities

Good communication skills

IT skills

Ability to inspire and motivate

Safeguarding knowledge

Education

Relevant Health and Social Care qualification

Maths/English Grade C or above at GCSE

Job description

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Community Access Service as a Community Support Worker.

In this role you’ll be working supporting adults with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum conditions to lead full and purposeful lives, and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in facilitating opportunities and partnership work, and your skills in co-production.

This Role is a community-based role. 80% of your week will be spent in the community supporting people in different settings.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The service focuses on enabling our service users (residents) to become active citizens in their community, empowering them to achieve their goals and develop their social skills.

We deliver a range of projects, activities/outings and community-based drop in’s during the day, evenings and weekends, as well as virtual sessions and online support using Zoom.

Some Of The Co-produced Opportunities We Provide Include:

• Our Drop-in and advocacy services.
• Animal Care and conservation group.
• Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Drama, Dance
• Health and Wellbeing Awareness.
• Cultural Awareness Celebrations & Festivals.
• Sports/Athletics, Self Defence, Swimming, Companion Cycling and Yoga.
• Social outings – free jumping, amusement parks, cultural and historical visits, meals out.
• Online Zoom Sessions- cookery, exercise, speaking up groups.

We are looking for a dedicated Community Support Worker to join our team. The successful applicant will support local Hounslow residents to access various community-based activities using person centred approaches with clear pathways for residents to progress towards independence. For the right candidate, this is a unique opportunity to take your career to the next level, if you share our passion, we want to hear from you.

About You

If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:

• You will have experience of working with people with learning disabilities and an understanding of the barriers people with disabilities face in relation to accessing community activities and public transport.
• A good understanding and commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults and adults at risk.
• Good communication and IT skills, with knowledge of reporting procedures and the development of clear and innovative strategies to overcome barriers.
• You are physically fit and self-motivated, flexible and organised and you are confident to be able to lone work in the community, whilst managing own workload.
• Can inspire people to explore new opportunities, access local resources, identify areas which enable people to flourish.

Qualifications:

• Relevant Health and Social Care qualification (desirable).
• Maths/ English Grade C or above at GCSE (essential).

Essential For The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact: Judith Freitag- Community Access Service Team Leader.

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Telephone: [phone]

Interviews for this job will be held on Thursday 15th May 2025.