Could you be a Sense Community Support Worker?

We now have a fantastic opportunity for a Communicator Guide (Community Support Worker) to join our team in Stourport-on-Severn (Worcestershire).

This is a permanent role, working 11 hours per week. For Communicator Guide (Community Support Worker) role, you will receive £11.75 per hour. You require a full UK license with business insurance added on and must be willing to drive around the West Midlands. 

This is a fun and rewarding opportunity to support a Lady who has deafblindness to access the community for social and leisure purposes. She communicates via fingerspelling on the individual's cheek and responds in speech.

As a Communicator Guide, you will be supporting the person to participate in activities they enjoy and have meaningful experiences. You will support them to make their own choices of how they want to spend their day, but a typical day in this role might be spent:

Doing activities like listening to musicGoing for a massage Horse-riding sessions 

The shift pattern for this role is flexible and can be mutually agreed with the individual.

Does this sound right for you?

Working at Sense gives you a wide range of benefits including:24 days’ holiday + bank holidays; increasing with length of serviceFree DBS CheckFree access to over 100 online and face to face training including the care certificate.On-going development opportunitiesFlexible working and family friendly policiesEmployee referral schemeHealth and well-being supportPension SchemeDiscount schemeHeadspace App- free for all employees to mindfulness applicationAbout Sense

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition, we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.

Ready to make a difference?

To apply

Managers will use your supporting statement to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly.  We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines, job description and person specification (found at the base of this advert) before applying.

Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.

No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.

If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or recruitment@sense.org.uk

Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

For this role we particularly welcome applications from candidates from underrepresented ethnic minority backgrounds and candidates with disabilities. Sense is committed to equality of opportunity, and to promoting and celebrating the diversity of staff, volunteers and the people we work with. Everyone's contribution is valued and we ensure they're given the opportunity to realise their potential. We welcome applications from talented people from all sections of the community who share our values and belief that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. For more information please visit: https://www.sense.org.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/ 

 

Closing Date

24/02/2025

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