Relief Employability Support Workers

Cambridgeshire County Council; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Flexible annual leave

Flexible bank holidays

Pension contributions (Shared AVCs)

Development opportunities

Paid volunteering hours

IDEAL network access

Employee Recognition Awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council delivers employability projects across Cambridgeshire and seeks relief Employability Support Workers to help adults with disabilities gain skills and work experience through practical learning opportunities. You will assist with baking, payments, and customer service, often in lone-working scenarios, with hours 8.50am–4pm, Monday to Friday and a comprehensive benefits package.

This role focuses on fostering independence and preparing trainees for voluntary or paid

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer facing role is preferred.
• Able to respond to emergencies and challenging situations promptly.
• Experience baking cakes and pastries is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support with baking and preparing products for sale.
• Handle payments and promote excellent customer service.
• Provide practical support and encouragement to trainees.
• Potential lone-working responsibilities with minimal supervision.

Skills

Customer service

Flexibility

Emergency response

Baking

Tools

Cash handling

Job description

We have a unique opportunity for additional support workers to join our team to provide practical support for work led and experience-based learning for adults with disabilities. The Employability Support Workers support individuals to gain the skills and experience to enable them to move to voluntary or paid work and provide practical support, training, and encouragement so that trainees can build on their own skills and abilities whilst respecting their individual needs and choices. The role will be on a relief basis to cover stafff absences with working hours between 8.50am - 4pm Monday to Friday (some flexibility may be required depending on service need). Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. As this is a relief post on a zero-hours contract, it does not meet the salary or eligibility requirements for sponsorship., The Supporting into Work service provides work-based learning opportunities for adults with disabilities across Cambridgeshire. We currently deliver employability projects in March, Ely, and Huntingdon, including Community Cafés in March (two locations), Ely, and Huntingdon, as well as TAG Bikes, our cycle refurbishment and retail project based in Huntingdon. You will support with skills in baking and preparing products for sale, handling of payments and promoting excellent customer service as the trainees work towards employment and developing life skills. Due to the nature of the work and the working environment the post holder will often be lone working and will not readily have support and/or supervision available. You will therefore need to be able to respond immediately to emergency situations or other challenging situations by assessing the situation as it arises and the consequence level of risk to the service user and others., Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
You will have an awareness of working with people with learning and/or physical disabilities, experience in a customer facing role and promoting skills for those individuals with a disability. You will be flexible and adaptable as the service grows and develops. You will be able to demonstrate skills with baking cakes and pastries as this is a large part of the role and will be tested as part of the interview.
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme (subject to operational demands)
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes