Part time Employability Support Worker in Cambridge

We have a unique opportunity for someone to join our team to provide practical support for work led and experience-based learning for adults with disabilities. The Employability Support Worker supports 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 is 3 days a week, work hours are between 8.50am - 4pm (some flexibility may be required depending on service need). Please be aware this role is for 20.5 hours every week and there is no flexibility with the number of hours offered. We are also unable to offer sponsorship in this role as it is part time and does not meet the salary requirements.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our benefits

• 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.

What will you be doing?

The Supporting into Work projects in Fenland currently include Community Cafes at two venues in March. Your role will be to support trainees in the running of the café, preparing and serving food and drinks in the public facing cafes. You will also 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.

About you

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.

Please use your supporting statement to outline how your skills and experience meet the Essential Criteria outlined in the Job description/Person specification attached to this vacancy.

Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion

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. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader.

We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled.

Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.