Supervisory Senior Support Worker
An exciting opportunity has become available to work within Care4CE Community Reablement Services. The position is for a permanent Supervisory Senior Support Worker, 30 hours per week, working one in three weekends. The position is based at Macclesfield Town Hall, Macclesfield.
Grade: 7 start pay flat rate £30,559 pro rata, per annum, £15.84 per hour, incremental for 5 years to £33,366 pro rata, per annum, £17.29 per hour.
Weekends are paid at time and half, as are Bank Holidays. Christmas Day and Boxing Day are double pay.
Shifts comprise a combination of days and evenings, with 1 in 3 weekend working.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Reablement is a community-based short-term service working with our integrated health partners under the Home First Agenda, supporting hospital discharges and hospital avoidance. This includes Urgent Community Response/Virtual Wards, therapy exercises, and low-level health tasks, with a strong focus on enabling individuals to reach maximum function while encouraging independence, choice, and control. Responsibilities include assessing long-term care needs, working in a person-centred, holistic approach, risk assessing, completing moving and handling assessments, and being trained as a Trusted Assessor to order low-level OT equipment.
You must have excellent organisational and time management skills to support and manage the day-to-day running of a fast-paced duty team, case manage individuals receiving a service, ensuring they have an evidence-based assessment, and supervise a team of frontline reablement workers to deliver safe, high-quality services. Flexibility is paramount to respond to emergency crisis work. You would also be part of the senior team in delivering in-house training, including integrated health tasks.
ABOUT YOU
You must have:
* Effective teamwork and communication skills
* Enthusiasm, flexibility, and reliability
* A person-centred approach to achieving the best outcomes for people
* Competent computer skills and attention to detail
* Able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
* Able to proactively manage a busy workload
* Supervisory experience
* Work to the behaviours of the Council Values
* Adhere to all Policies and Procedures and CQC Regulations
To find out more about our essential and desirable criteria for the role, please view the 'In this job you will need' section within the attached JDPS document.
WHAT WE GIVE IN RETURN
* ENHANCED ANNUAL LEAVE – 34 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) from day 1, increasing to 39 days after only 5 years' service
* ENHANCED PUBLIC PENSION – A career average pension (contributions built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay)
* EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME – A free and confidential assistance service for all employees to help manage life issues
* VIRGIN MEDIA AND O2 DISCOUNTS – Exclusive discounts on Virgin Media Broadband and O2 pay monthly plans
* DISCOUNTED GYM MEMBERSHIPS – Access to corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure
ABOUT US
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we offer a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities. At Cheshire East Council, we are committed to providing a shared purpose and a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team.
HOW TO APPLY
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, please apply for the role at the bottom of the page, or for an informal chat about the role, contact Sarah Webb or Andrea Weaver on 01625 374269.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the Resource Manager Sarah Webb on 01625 374261.
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Any cautions, convictions, reprimands, or final warnings that are not protected under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 must be disclosed during the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly, as we will use this to contact you regarding your application. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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