Senior Support Worker Penzance, England
Job description
Are you looking for a rewarding career opportunity?
Would you like to work in a role that enhances the lives of others?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
The Bungalow respite service is looking for the right individual to join our exceptional, committed and aligned team.
The Bungalow is a unique setting that provides a homely environment for people with learning disabilities to stay overnight. We are able to provide much needed breaks for families and carers to enable families to continue living together.
Our service aims to provide an environment where people feel valued equally, listened to, respected, included and empowered.
We greatly value our staff team and strive to provide a comfortable and fun working environment. We offer flexibility to ensure that you have a good work/ life balance. We provide regular 1-1 meeting to provide full support, enable you to excel in your role, and provide training opportunities to further progress your career.
We appreciate people’s values and behaviours over their working experience. Experience is not essential. We are happy to fully support and train the person that is right for our team. We are looking for someone who is caring, empathetic, proactive, a problem solver, has good communication skills and most importantly has a good sense of humour!
Benefits that we offer are:
- Hourly rates of £10.50 - £11.69 for Support Workers, and hourly rates of £11.69 - £14.34 for Senior Support Workers.
- 24 days annual leave per year (pro-rata), rising to 28 days after five years continuous service.
- Sick pay scheme and company pension.
- Occupational health teams and access to external services supporting the welfare of our staff
- To view our many other benefits, please visit: Benefits of working for the Council - Cornwall Council
To Apply
If you are interested in applying for this role please submit a CV, alternatively you can email your CV to [email protected]
Please view the role profile here, your application will need to demonstrate how you meet the required criteria. Please ensure you answer all of the pre-screening questions in full, within the application form. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process
Please be advised that for this role we are accepting uploaded supporting statements and/or CVs to support your online application.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.
This position will be subject to a criminal record disclosure check.
More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here.
We are happy to talk about flexible working options.
