Support Worker

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is seeking a dedicated Support Worker to join our Outreach+ team. You will support adults with disabilities to live independently in their own communities, helping with daily living activities and enabling participation in local life. You will travel within Coventry to reach residents in need.

Experience is not essential; enthusiasm, the ability to encourage others, and a respectful approach are crucial. The role emphasises dignity and equity and involves DBS checks.

Qualifications

• Enthusiasm and the ability to encourage people.
• Respect for citizens’ rights and choices while treating people with dignity and respect.

Responsibilities

• Support citizens in their own/familiar settings with daily living skills to enable community engagement.
• Assist with accessing benefits, community activities, shopping, cooking, reading mail and responding to correspondence.
• Travel within the Coventry area to support residents.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Respect citizens’ rights

Dignity and respect

Job description

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

Outreach+ is a service that supports adults with disabilities to develop and maintain their independent living skills thus enabling individuals to maintain their tenancies.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

What is the job role?

We are currently seeking to appoint Support Worker to join our dynamic and forward thinking team.

The role consists of supporting citizens in their own/familiar settings in the community with everyday living skills/activities to enable them to engage in their community and live independently. No two days are the same, you will hold a caseload of people that you will provide support to,

Examples of support could include supporting citizens with accessing benefits, community activities, shopping, cooking, reading mail and replying to correspondence to name a few. The role does involve travelling in the Coventry area.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

Experience is not essential but enthusiasm, the ability to encourage people, respect citizens’ rights and choices whilst always treating people with dignity and respect are essential

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'.If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date: 20th/21st October 2026

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

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