Employability Coordinator

About the role
Huntingdon Community Centre is a busy Day Centre for Adults with Learning disabilities and autism based in Ambury Road, Huntingdon, which is part of the In House Provider Services.

We are opening a community-focused café creating an inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone feels valued.

The Employability Co-ordinator will work to establish the new supported employment café at Huntingdon Community Centre. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a new project to support adults with a learning disability or autism to learn work skills based in a café environment.

You will have a blend of hospitality experience, excellent communication skills and a strong commitment to support people with disabilities to develop skills. Good baking skills are also required, as all goods sold within the cafe will be made onsite by the team.

If you would like an informal chat about the role please call Karen Hubbard on 01480 377699.

What will you be doing?

You will be supporting the establishment of a café in a space within the day centre, delivering the vision of a community café and driving this forward to make the café successful. This will include proposing and implementing innovative ideas to attract and engage the community.

You will create an inclusive and supportive environment for trainees to ensure an effective and outcome based service is delivered and the right support is provided to enable the trainees to gain the skills required.

As Coordinator, you will oversee the daily operation of the café and production of quality baked goods to be sold, the purchasing of required stock and money handling. You will also be responsible for meeting the standards required of Food Standard Agency and ensuring individuals are working in a safe environment.

We are looking for someone who will be as passionate as we are about the success of the cafe, someone who is self motivated, able to work on their own initiative and who is used to prioritising tasks on a daily basis.

You will be digitally proficient, able to use MS Word/Excel and confident posting on social media.

About you
Experience in working in a café or similar setting, adapting processes and tasks for people with a learning disability and/or autism.

Good communication and great interpersonal skills to interact with the adults we support, customers and the local community with a genuine interest in community engagement.

Confidently identify issues and find effective solutions quickly.

Have an understanding and patience for individuals with diverse needs. Prior experience working with adults with learning disabilities and/or autism is highly beneficial.

Committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone.

Be creative and deliver exciting ideas to attract and engage the community into the café, identifying opportunities and taking initiative.

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