Job Description
Autism Anglia is a well-established charity celebrating 50 years. We have opportunities available for Intensive Support, Support Workers on a part-time basis. Working from our Supported Living locations across Colchester and Greater Colchester the successful Intensive support, Support Worker will assist people who are within the autistic spectrum and enable them to maximize their potential and develop life skills across multiple activities. The Intensive Support, Support Worker will work as part of a team to help those in your care to help them achieve their own life plans, through a person-centred approach.
Autism Anglia is dedicated to providing ongoing training and supervision, continuing professional development and support as well as an extensive induction on commencement of employment.
- Location: Colchester, Essex
- Salary: £11.37 per hour - £21936.04 FTE
- Hours: Part-time hours available 25.5 hours a week
Supported Living
Autism Anglia’s Supported Living service supports individuals across multiple locations in the Colchester and Greater Colchester areas. Offering one-to-one support and enabling autistic people to live as independently as possible. We work together to enable access to the wider community. Every Supported Living service is located in the community and is either a housing association property, privately rented or owned by Autism Anglia. Services range from one to four adults per property, depending on suitability and need
Support Workers in our Supported Living service recognise each individual’s aspirations and needs and work towards enabling individuals to achieve their own life plans by developing life skills through person-centred, strengths-based planning. This will include being actively involved in empowering them to make individual choices about their everyday living.
The Role
- Personalising activities to suit and benefit the person you will be supporting while delivering a high standard of care and support.
- Driving out to locations to ensure personalised activities can be fulfilled.
- Supporting individuals with personal care needs, health, and hygiene with a focus on developing daily life skills.
- Updating personalised documentation as required and maintaining the individuals care and support plans
- Working alongside the Team Leader in the day-to-day management of the service and deputising in their absence.
- Developing and maintaining up-to-date individualised support plans appropriate to the specific needs of the individual to encourage developers to their full potential.
- Supporting colleagues to ensure a high standard of delivery, recognising positive achievements for individuals and staff.
- Supporting/enabling individuals in daily activities which could include swimming, cycling, walking, tennis, and other community-based activities.
Applications are welcome from Intensive Support workers with the following:
- Ability to manage emotionally and physically challenging situations and behaviours.
- Ability to identify needs, wishes, and aspirations of individuals who may have communication needs.
- Experience in working with people with Autism and intensive behavioural support.
- Experienced with activity co-ordination, knowledge of opportunities in surrounding areas
- Good range of communication skills
- Experience working within a health and social care environment
To Apply:
If you have a genuine passion for supporting and uplifting others, your outstanding future at Autism Anglia could be moments away. Apply now by clicking on the link below or contact Natalie Dwan on 01206 577 678 OR email Recruitment@autism-anglia.org.uk to arrange a confidential discussion.
Autism Anglia considers itself to be a fully inclusive employer, welcoming applications from all individuals who are able to meet and exceed the requirements of the position and may wish to request flexible working or reasonable adjustments to appropriately support candidates.
Autism Anglia is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults or children and expects all staff to share this commitment in the fullest sense. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. For all enhanced DBS roles, we are permitted to seek access to spent convictions under The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended 2013).
Autism Anglia is an independent charity with a range of services across East Anglia which provide care and support to children, adults, and families affected by autism. Our services include an independent specialist school, further education provision, adult residential houses, study centres, supported living packages, professional advice and training, and family support and advice.
The charity offers a personalised approach that provides each individual with the necessary skills and strategies to enable them to realise their own strengths and abilities. Autism Anglia is passionate about assisting people with autism to lead the most independent life style as possible.
The origins of the charity begin in the early 1970’s with families living in Essex and Norfolk independently realising that there was no specialist provision for their children who were on the autistic spectrum. The lack of provision resulted in two separate organisations being operated and managed up until 2008 when there was a successful merger and the formation of Autism Anglia. The charity has continued to expand and grow and now employs over 390 members of staff in a range of diverse roles. We are passionate about changing and shaping the lives of people with autism for the better and are able to do so through raising awareness of the spectrum condition and by being part of Autism Alliance. The alliance has enabled us to increase capacity to campaign and lobby on behalf of people with autism by being part of a national organisation which has the power to reach and campaign for a better life for people with autism.
Autism Anglia is a well-established charity which provides ongoing training, supervision, continuing professional development and support, as well as an extensive induction on commencement of employment. It gives employees the opportunity to help others achieve and maintain their independence within their capabilities.