Trainee Community Support Worker

1 week ago

Leicestershire, United Kingdom Leicestershire County Council Full time

**Trainee Community Support Worker**

**Starting salary of £24,501 to £26,850 depending on prior relevant experience. Rising to £27,858 following successful completion of our 12 month training programme.**

We are pleased to offer a number of part time Trainee Community Support Worker posts in our Operational Commission and Home First Teams. The part time positions available are 18.5 hours per week.

Working as a Trainee Community Support Worker, you will work under the direction and supervision of the Team Leader/Senior Community Support Worker. You will be required to visit people in their own home, placements and hospital wards, depending on the team you work within. You will be provided with a mentor and supported to undertake the Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship, with excellent learning and development opportunities to enable you to progress your career in adult social care.

The position will involve working under the Care Act 2014 and Mental Capacity Act to deliver a high quality, person-centred accountable statutory social care service, ensuring that adults, their families and carers;
- can find their own solutions, assess, manage and review their own needs, risks and capacity, maximise their own independence and self-direct the responses to deliver agreed outcomes
- can access community opportunities, formalised personalised care and support to deliver their expressed outcomes and maintain themselves in the community
- are protected and safeguarded

To find out more about being a Community Support Worker then please see Katie’s story **here**.

The post holder will be provided with an office base, however due to the nature of the role you must have the ability to travel to other areas across the locality. Due to the pandemic, our staff are currently working from home. Flexible working can be considered.

***Benefits of working for Leicestershire County Council**:

- Committed to providing an **inclusive workplace**:

- Relocation package available
- Existing continuous service leave entitlement (plus 5 years) will be honoured
- Paid Social Work England registration
- Excellent **health and wellbeing** support available for employees
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Option to purchase additional annual leave

***We particularly welcome applicants from black, minority, ethnic (BME) communities, disabled people and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities, as they are currently under represented within our workforce. We are on a journey to be an inclusive department where a culture to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion is embedded and discrimination challenged at every level together as a department. We warmly welcome those from all cultures, ethnicities and beliefs - this diversity is vital to our journey and is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer.**

For more information on the benefits of working for Leicestershire County Council please click here **employee benefits** Please Click here to look at our brochure **Employment Deal** - Working for Leicestershire County Council.

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