Community Support Worker

3 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Longhurst Group Full time

**You’ve picked a great time to consider a career in Floating Support.**

Full training, flexible hours, and the chance to really improve people’s lives. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Today, you can take a step towards a new and rewarding career, deliver a heartfelt service with each customer, and enjoy a real feel-good factor from your work.

Whether you’re already experienced or brand new to support work you can make a huge difference. The Birmingham community support team provides floating support to a wonderful and diverse selection of customers offering them individualised support packages to help them live independently and with dignity. We are currently recruiting for a Community Support Worker to work 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday).

**Where are we based**

We work across Birmingham in the community with this role providing floating support to our customers.

**No two days are the same.**

As a Community Support Worker, you will help individuals with:

- Access to Leisure activities.
- Accessing local services
- Staying well.
- Attaining and maintaining housing.
- Supporting them into employment.
- Supporting with life skills such as shopping or paying bills.
- Attending appointments and more.

**This role is community based so would require access and use of a vehicle to travel between customers.**

**What you receive from us**

As a leading provider of care and support when you join you will enjoy:

- Up to 26 days annual leave (Pro rata based on contracted hours)
- Investment in your personal development through our extensive learning and development opportunities.
- Fully Paid DBS check
- Family friendly, carers leave plus other paid leave
- Employee Assistance programme
- Free flu vaccinations

**How to apply**

Please click “apply” today to upload your CV detailing your employment history.

**Vetting Requirements**

Naturally working with our customers we need to complete pre-employment checks before you join us. This role is conditional upon receipt of two satisfactory references (one from your current employer). We also need you to tell us what you have been up to as a minimum over the past 5 years in terms of employment history. We recognise, welcome and support that everyone’s employment history is unique and can be different. This could include carer duties, travel, seeking work, education, employment, training, or volunteering.

**Equal Opportunities**

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Longhurst Group is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

INDAD

Longhurst Group is one of the leading housing groups in the Midlands and East of England, providing more than 24,000 homes and a wide range of care and support services.

With a team of 1,300 colleagues guided by our shared values, our vision is to improve the lives of our customers and our colleagues and to enhance the communities we serve. We do this by focusing on two clear themes of work: Health and wellbeing and economic resilience. To see how we’ll achieve this through our Improving Lives strategy, please watch the video below.

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