Life Opportunities Champion Oa

2 weeks ago


Bolton, United Kingdom Bolton Cares Full time

**Life Opportunities Champion**

**Location**:Bolton BL5 area

**Salary**:£10.90 per hour, annual leave paid at the same rate.

**Contract**:Permanent

**Hours**:Flexible to meet the needs of the service at 25 hours

**Looking to make a difference every day?**

As a Life Opportunities Champion, the rewards of connecting people into their communities and engaging meaningful activities is exhilarating. You’ll become part of a close working team guided by the Life Opportunities Lead and gain an in-depth working knowledge of people’s lived experience and strengths. But most importantly, you can learn through your real experiences and carve your own career within Bolton Cares. Many of those who join us have no previous knowledge of working with people who have disabilities. Our fantastic induction programme and continuous learning and development opportunities help all of our staff become skilled practitioners.

One of our priorities for this role is to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes that match our **THRIVE** values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Values and Empowerment.

In our team we treat people with compassion and care, showing dignity and respect, commit to quality and being the best that we can and do this through trusting each other.

**About the Life Opportunities Champion** **role**:
Working from a hub model we operate as a priority in making sure that we are connecting people with others, meeting new people, targeting isolation and accessing a range of social activities and achieving outcomes. This particular role would suit a person who enjoys celebrating and engaging the sills of older adults.

A flexible approach in your pattern of supporting people will ensure we meet the needs of the people we support and will entail some bank holiday, weekends and working and shifts outside of traditional day service hours.

**Responsibilities**:

- Supporting people to engage in a range of activities
- Supporting the planning and delivery of activities
- Undertake some personal care tasks, while maintaining people’s privacy and dignity.
- Supporting people with their medication where required
- Helping people live more independently and undertake life enhancing activities.
- Ensure people’s needs are at the heart of everything we do.
- Work with care managers and health colleagues to implement and support therapy plans.

**Experience and skills required**:

- A strong team player.
- Understand that communication is varied and comes in many forms.
- Have a positive outlook and a flexible approach.
- Have a passion for supporting people.
- Demonstrate a high standard of personal and professional behaviour.
- Are able to communicate confidently with others.
- Be able to develop supportive relationships, promoting choice and independence.
- You will be highly motivated to deliver outstanding care and support.
- Are able to use or, learn to use relevant IT systems.

**Benefits**:

- Company funded DBS
- 6% employer contribution pension scheme
- 21 days annual leave (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
- Life insurance scheme
- Access to Smart Health -virtual health service
- Company sick pay scheme

If you are new to care, we will support you to achieve the Care Certificate, giving you a solid foundation for care work.

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be considered for this role APPLY today

25 per week

**Salary**: £10.90 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Sick pay
- Wellness programmes

Application deadline: 25/08/2023

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.90 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Work Location: In person


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