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Day Opportunities Coordinator (Adults' Health and Care) HCC617186
Salary Range: £25,628 to £28,326 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
The Role:
Join our friendly team here at Woodlands Resource Centre Day Service as a Day Opportunities Coordinator. You’ll play a key role in assisting your team to deliver an excellent service to people with learning disabilities, creating a positive and welcoming environment. You will provide effective leadership support to enable the team to deliver person-centred services, identifying the needs of the people who use our services, developing their confidence and potential.
We support people with a range of differing needs, abilities and interests and you’ll celebrate this diversity, promoting inclusion while offering fun and fulfilling activities to suit the individual. In this role, no two days are the same. You may be out and about swimming, bowling, going to the cinema or even the pub. Or simply sharing a personal hobby or interest, within our well-resourced facilities.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application .
As a Day Opportunities Coordinator, you will have significant experience of working with learning disabilities, including in a Day Services environment. You will have the ability to support and offer training and guidance to less experienced staff, as well as the ability to lead and motivate a team through change with positivity. Most importantly, you’ll demonstrate our core values, showing patience, empathy and compassion and share our commitment to enabling people to lead full and active lives as independently as possible. As a strong team player, you must have good communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse range of people. With a ‘can do’ approach, you’ll enjoy thinking creatively and inspiring others to engage. Sound IT and accurate information recording skills are also essential.
In return we can offer you a comprehensive induction programme, so that you’ll have all the training you need to do a fantastic job. You’ll also get great satisfaction as a Day Opportunities Coordinator from supporting people engage in the activities that mean so much to them. We are committed to your continued personal development and offer an extensive Benefits Package.
Travel Requirements
You will be required to drive a Council vehicle and must hold a current full drivers’ licence.
Values Based Recruitment
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Additional Information:
Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process.
Vetting Requirements:
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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