Day Services Coordinator

**Day Services Coordinator**:

- Date: 16 Oct 2024- Job Location: CheltenhamThis is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Day Services Coordinator
- Job Location: The Prestbury Centre
- Salary: £27,803 - £30,296 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 30/10/2024
- Job Requisition Number: 10069
- This post is not open to job share

Supporting someone to regain their confidence and independence. Making them feel important. This is why we do it. This is why we care. As part of our Adult Social Care team, amazing moments like these will be part of daily life as you support those who need us most. With an array of brilliant benefits - including an employee assistance programme, tax-free childcare, cycle to work scheme and staff discounts - you’ve got a rewarding role in every sense.

Watch our short video Adults Social Care Inhouse to get an idea of what it's like to work in our Adult Social Care team.

**About the role**:
We have a full time Day Service Coordinator vacancy at Prestbury Day Centre based in Cheltenham.

As a Day Service Coordinator, you’ll help people to lead fulfilling, dignified lives.
- The Prestbury Day Centre_ is a purpose built day service within the grounds of Oakley. The primary aims of the service is to provide a safe space to maximise individuals’ choice, independence, and inclusion, whilst using a holistic approach to care and support to provide respite time for families and carers. In this role, you will be able to demonstrate experience of working with adults with social care needs, physical disabilities, and dementia. The expectation is that you will also be required to cover in Oakley when needed.

Working with management, as well as on your own initiative, you’ll encourage people to take part in sessions and activities to enhance their independence. You’ll also develop care plans and risk assessments to help people with their personal care and day-to-day needs. By working closely with parents, carers and other professionals, you’ll help us achieve positive outcomes for the people we care for.

**About you**:
As well as an NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) qualification, you’ll also have hands-on experience working with people who have physical, mental health or behavioural needs. Committed to enhancing the lives of people with a range of abilities, you’ll be confident providing personal care and administering medication. What’s more, you’ll be proactive about your professional development and passionate about helping us take our service from strength to strength.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. See our values page to find out more.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

**About us**:
It’s a fantastic time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as we transform our Adult Social Care services. Through our team, we’re helping people with increasingly complex needs to remain independent and have a say in how they live. To succeed, we need people who’ll go the extra mile to see others well and happy and give families peace of mind. People who know that caring is the most rewarding feeling around.

Join us, and you’ll have a great opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives. Meanwhile, you’ll have the training and support to develop your career. Add an array of brilliant benefits and you’ve got a rewarding role in every sense. We genuinely care about our colleagues and support their wellbeing.

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**Additional Information**:
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Day Services Coordinator Job Profile

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.