Reablement Supervisory Senior Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within Care4CE Community Reablement Services. The position is for a permanent Supervisory Senior Support Worker 30 hours per week working one in three weekends. The position is based at Macclesfield Town Hall, Macclesfield.

Grade.7 start pay **flat rate** £31,537 [**pro rata**, per annum], £16.35 per hour, incremental for 5 years to £34,434 [pro rata, per annum], £17.85per hour.

Weekends are paid at time and half as are Bank Holidays. Christmas Day and Boxing Day are double pay.

Shifts comprise of a combination of days and evenings. 1 in 3 weekend working.

Mileage per mile is.

46.9p under 1000cc / or electric car

52.2p over 1000cc.

**Organisation**
- Cheshire East Council

**Location**
- Macclesfield

**Job Category**
- Social Care

**Grade**
- CEC NJC - Grade 7

**Salary Min**
- £31,537 pro rata per annum

**Salary Max**
- £34,434 pro rata per annum

**Hours per week**
- 30

**Weeks per year**
- 52.143

**Employment Type**
- Permanent

**Closing Date**
- 26/09/2025

**Ref No**
- E3240

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Reablement is a community based short-term service working with our integrated health partners under the Home First Agenda, in supporting hospital discharges and hospital avoidance [which comprise of Urgent Community Response/Virtual Wards], therapy exercises, low-level health tasks, with a strong focus to enable individuals, to reach a maximum level of function whilst encouraging independence, choice and control or assessing for long term care needs, working in a person-centred, holistic approach, risk assessing, completing moving and handling assessments and trained as a Trusted Assessor to order low level OT equipment.

You must have excellent organisational and time management skills to support and manage the day to day running of a fast-paced duty team, case manage individuals receiving a service, ensuring they have an evidenced based assessment, and supervise a team of frontline reablement workers to deliver safe, high-quality services. Flexibility is paramount to respond to the emergency crisis work. You would also be part of the senior team in delivering in-house training including integrated health tasks.

**ABOUT YOU**

You must have:

- Effective teamwork and communication skills
- Be enthusiastic, flexible, and reliable.
- Be person-centred in your approach in achieving the best outcomes for people.
- Competent computer skills and eye for detail
- Able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- Able to proactively manage a busy workload.
- Supervisory experience
- Work to the behaviours of the Council Values
- Work to all Policies and Procedures and CQC Regulations

To find out more about our essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the 'In this job you will need' section within the attached JDPS document.

**WHAT WE GIVE IN RETURN**
- ENHANCED ANNUAL LEAVE - 34 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) from day 1, increasing to 39 days after only 5 years' service.
- ENHANCED PUBLIC PENSION - A career average pension (contributions built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay
- EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME - A completely free to use and confidential assistance service for all employees to help staff manage, reduce, and overcome the impact of life issues which they may experience from time to time, both withing work and their personal life.
- VIRGIN MEDIA AND O2 DISCOUNTS - Exclusive discounts on Virgin Media Broadband and O1 pay monthly plans.
- DISCOUNTED GYM MEMBERSHIPS - Access to corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure which includes:

- Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
- Off-Peak Racket Sports
- Athletics Tracks
- Sauna/Steam/Spa

**ABOUT US**

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we can offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities. At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future - together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

**HOW TO APPLY**

**FURTHER INFORMATION**

Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.