Apprentice Residential Assistant

3 weeks ago


Basildon, United Kingdom Essex County Council Full time

About the role

**Apprentice Residential Assistant**

Apprenticeship, Full Time

£9,280 per annum (pay award pending)

Location: Basildon

Working Style: Fixed-base worker

Closing Date: 3rd April 2023

**About Us**:
**Are you looking for a new opportunity to combine paid work with study and achieve a qualification? Are you sensitive and understanding and have the desire to help others? This could be the opportunity you are looking for**

**Benefits**:

- Healthy work life balance; flexible working options.
- Wide range of learning and development opportunities.
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + choice to buy extra.
- Generous Local Government Salary related pension scheme.
- Access to hundreds of discounts and benefits through Essex Rewards.
- Access to our health and wellbeing support platform with LifeWorks.
- National Apprenticeship Wage for the first 12 months of your Apprenticeship After 12 months of service, your salary will increase to the National Living Wage.
- An Adult Care Worker Level 2 qualification via Adult Community Learning (ACL). For details about the apprenticeship standard, please click here.

**What our apprentices say**:
“I really enjoyed my apprenticeship with ECC, I loved that the majority of the apprenticeship is on the job learning and mínimal classroom work. The opportunities for career development have been much wider than I originally thought, and the apprenticeship is such a great way to start your career and get your foot in the door with your local council/ government”

“As an apprentice currently working at ECC, I can confirm that it is a very rewarding role. I’m proud to be a part of this team and you will be too”

**The Role**:
ECC Adult Social Care, through effective practice, is moving towards a transformational shift from a focus on long-term care support, to a model with four key principles: - prevention; early intervention; enablement and safeguarding. This will enable people, their families and carers to be able to access information and tools to live healthily and independently. Providing an opportunity to respond pro-actively to growing service demand in a sustainable way, within the financial constraints of the Council.

This Apprentice opportunity involves undertaking an intermediate Apprenticeship framework in Health and Social Care, whilst working within in a residential and short break home for adults with a learning disability and Autism, learning and developing the skills needed in order to provide a high-quality level of care. The Apprentice will be supporting adults with a learning disability and Autism with all aspects of their lives in accordance with their wishes and identified needs, both in the home and in the community.

**This role involves working an early (7am-3pm) and late (3pm-10pm) shift on a rota basis - details can be discussed at interview.**

**About You**:
You will:

- Be educated to RQF level 1 (GCSE) or equivalent by experience with a willingness to achieve the apprenticeship award within 12 months of starting the role.
- Have good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a manner which is easily understood and tailored to meet the needs of the audience.
- Have a commitment to learn with the ability to learn key components of care: the principles of respect, dignity, privacy and promoting choice.
- Understand how to manage sensitive and/or personal information.
- Be open to new work practices and responsive to change.

**Essential Requirements for the role**:

- Functional Skills Level 1 in Maths and English (or equivalent), which is a Grade D/E or 2/3 to begin the apprenticeship.
- Ability to reach a Level 2 Functional Skills in both Maths & English by the End Point Assessment (EPA), if you do not already have this.

**What will you be doing?**
- Contribute to upholding the Duty of Care for all clients to ensure a safe and high-quality service.
- Understand and ensure compliance with all external and internal regulations.
- Undertake all mandatory training to ensure personal, customer and colleague safety at all times.
- The successful individual will work alongside the home’s residents and staff, using a range of communication methods and supporting them in accordance with their wishes and identified personal needs in all aspects of their lives.
- Complete a course of study and achieve the relevant Apprenticeship framework.
- Deliver a quality service to individuals, ensuring consistent adherence to both designed outcomes and agreed service levels.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

**Why Essex?**

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow -



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