Support Workers

About the role
We are looking for highly motivated, creative, and enthusiastic Support Workers based at Horizon and The Birches day centres in Cambridge. These positions involve supporting adults with learning disabilities and older people in the community and within the day service.

We are looking for staff who are interested and skilled in running activities such as physical exercise, crafts, gardening, cooking and music, and who can support our service users to access community resources, for example, swimming pools, shops, and the local library.

What will you be doing?
You will be assisting our service users with all aspects of their care, including personal care, empowering them to maintain their independence and well-being.

You will organise activity sessions within the centres to help us ensure a varied timetable of activities throughout the week.

**The hours for these roles are Monday - Friday from 8.55am to 4.10pm with a 5pm finish on Tuesdays.**

**This role does not meet the salary requirement for us to be able to offer sponsorship.**

**Interviews will be held w/c 6th July 2025.**

We offer excellent training and the opportunity to be part of a supportive team committed to delivering excellent services for people in Cambridge.

About you
You will be creative and enthusiastic and will be able to run, and participate in, exciting and engaging activities with older people and adults with learning disabilities.

You will be in regular contact with service users, families, carers, other professionals, and partner agencies; therefore, the role will require you to have excellent verbal and written communication skills combined with a sensitive and professional approach.

An important aspect of the Support Worker role will be assisting people with their personal care, so you will have a practical, empathetic and supportive approach. You will also have a good understanding of equal opportunities, a person-centred approach and diversity.

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive **wellbeing package** to cover **all aspects of wellbeing**, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to **4 weeks additional annual leave** (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays **flexibly** to better suit **your personal circumstances**:

- Make **Additional Voluntary Contributions** (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to **development opportunities**, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support **your personal and professional growth**:

- ** Paid volunteering hours** each year so you can make a **positive impact on our community** during your normal working day
- Access to **Peer Support Groups** through our IDEAL staff **equality, diversity and inclusion** network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive **Employee Recognition Awards**:

- An **Our Cambs Rewards** account, giving you access to in-store and online **discounts** as well as our **Car Lease** and **Cycle to Work** schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.