Communicator Guide

3 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom ECL Full time

Communicator Guide / Communicator Guide with BSL

Salary - £10.50 up to £15.00 per hour depending upon job role and qualifications.

Location - Across North Essex - Colchester/Clacton

Various hours - primarily Monday to Friday within office hours. Various contracted hours available.

Are you looking for flexible working hours and an exciting new challenge? BSL and non-BSL roles available.

Do you have British Sign Language (BSL) skills/ qualifications which you would like to use? Or do you have, or are working towards Level 3 BSL? If so we would love to hear from you.

Do you enjoy working creatively, flexibly, and collaboratively as part of a specialist team?

ECL Sensory Service are seeking caring people to join their team of Communicator Guides whose role is to support people with sight, hearing and dual sensory loss in the community.

**The role**:

- Working with people who have sight, hearing or dual sensory impairments.
- Supporting people to maintain independence, access services such as health appointments and improve quality of life.
- 1-1 support in the community across Essex and in hospital appointments across the region.
- Activities could include assisting with a shopping, finance or correspondence, accessing sports and leisure facilities or hospital appointments.

**To be considered, you need**:

- To be able to work on your own initiative out in the community as well as be able to fit in as part of an expanding team.
- Have a full driving licence and access to a car.
- Enjoy working with people and are keen to enable independence.
- Undertake induction training and Communicator Guide training.

This is a growing service with ECL and is countywide.

To view the full Job Description for this role, please click here.

**What we can offer you**:

- 24 days pa plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
- Annual Performance Review, performance related pay and bonus
- Business mileage paid at 45p per mile
- Contributory Pension Scheme - ECL match up to 6% Employee Pension contributions
- Healthcare Cash plan (including reimbursement for dental, optical and chiropody plus much more)
- Reimbursement of professional subscriptions
- Excellent Career development with access to paid for qualifications
- Free DBS check and renewals (if required)
- Up to £1000 Refer a friend scheme

**Take the next step in your career and become part of the ECL team.**
- We have a written policy on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders, which is available to view _here_._
- We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme which helps to employ, support and promote disabled people in the workplace._

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