Employment Support Worker

As an Employment Support Worker based at Enham Trust, you'll take a coaching-focused, person-centred approach to support colleagues with disabilities or long-term health conditions who face barriers to employment. You'll play a key role in helping individuals build skills, confidence, and independence, supporting them to succeed in their roles across various departments, including 3PL, gardening, and domestic teams.

You'll work closely with individuals and teams, offering one-to-one and group-based support, tracking progress against personal development goals, and helping ensure targets are met. This is a hands-on role requiring empathy, adaptability, and a strong desire to help others grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide tailored 1:1 and group support based on individual development plans.
• Use coaching and mentoring techniques to support colleagues' personal and professional growth.
• Support training, induction, and mandatory learning requirements.
• Help track progress and outcomes using data and reporting tools.
• Collaborate with internal teams and managers to ensure smooth, supportive employment experiences.

• Promote a positive, inclusive workplace culture across the Trust.

• Experience in a support worker or similar person-centred role.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills – confident in handling sensitive conversations.
• Empathy, patience, and a genuine desire to support others.
• IT literacy, including Microsoft Office.
• GCSEs (or equivalent), including English and Maths.
• Strong organisational and record-keeping skills.
• A flexible and proactive approach to changing priorities.

We are Enham Together we have been making a difference to the lives of disabled people for over 100 years and we are looking forward to continuing this for the next 100 years Together we explore opportunities with people so they can live the lives they choose by overcoming limitations and expanding possibilities. Through first class care, personal development, housing options, and employment, we support people to exercise individual choice and control in their lives.

We live by our values, TOGETHER we do amazing, we WOW people every day and we dare to be DIFFERENT

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Enham Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident Leader; as part of this commitment all disabled applicants, who meet the minimum criteria, will be guaranteed an interview. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme it's vital that you declare your disability, impairment, or long-term health condition when you apply.

Enham Trust is an equal opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity status.

Enham Trust as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation, and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group as one of its subsidiary brands.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

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