Community Support Worker

Job profile
- The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

**Job details**:
**Job reference**

REQ00000018439

**Date posted**

03/06/2025

**Application closing date**

**Location**

WINDERMERE

**Salary**

£13.26 - £17.96

**Package**

**Contractual hours**

21

**Basis**

Part time

**Attachments**

**Community Support Worker - Extra Care Housing - Birthwaite, Windermere**:
**Job description**

**Hourly Rate**:£13.26 - £17.96
- The advertised hourly rate includes a supplement (JWC) to the base grade of the post. JWC supplements are conditional on the physical demands and /or working conditions of the role._

**Location**: Birthwaite, Phoenix Way, Windermere

**Available Hours**:1 x 21 hours per week
**Please note**: Extra Care is a 365 day a year, 7 day a week, 24-hour service. This will include weekend and Bank Holiday rotas. Typically, our shifts run between the hours of 7am - 3pm, 2:30pm till 10 pm and 9:45 pm till 7:15 am and are worked over a 2-week rota. The role will involve lone working

**About this Opportunity**
- Extra Care Housing provides support to people living within a purpose built independent living community, everyone has their own home environment such as a flat or bungalow.
We are looking for caring and compassionate people to join our supportive teams within Extra Care Housing, providing tenants with the right level of support and care, while encouraging and enabling them to achieve or maintain their own independence.
As a Community Support Worker within Extra Care Housing, you will get the opportunity to know people individually and support their wellbeing through physical and emotional care. You may also assist with medication, providing personal care, meal preparation and any other identified needs.

**Who we are looking for**
- Our vision for Adult Social Care is “People living in a place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them.”
We are looking for the right people, with the right qualities and we can support you with fully paid training and development. If you’re friendly, compassionate and want to make a difference to people’s lives’, we would love to speak with you

**What can we offer you**
- Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site.**Our benefits | Careers (westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk)**

**Would you like to find out more?**
For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria please view the below documents:

- **Post Specification**:

- **Role Profile**
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**Application and Interview Information**
- We look forward to hearing from you

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**DBS**

**This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and requires an enhanced DBS check with a Adults Barred List check.**

**Safer Recruitment**
- At Westmorland and Furness Council we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and we expect all workers, employees and volunteers to share our commitment.

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion**
- As a Disability Confident Leader, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
We also offer guaranteed interviews to Armed Forces personnel and veterans and those in care or care experienced and under 24 years old, that meet the essential criteria for the role.
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