Job Description
Autism Anglia is a well-established charity celebrating 50 years. We have opportunities available for Senior Support Workers on a full-time or part-time basis. Working from our Peldon Campus in Colchester, Essex. The successful Senior 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 Senior 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: Peldon Campus, Colchester, CO5
- Salary: £11.62 per hour £22,418.36 per annum FTE
- Hours: Full Time 37 hours per week
Peldon:
Peldon accommodates individuals within the autistic spectrum from 20 years of age as part of Autism Anglia’s Adult services. Enabling all individuals to participate in various physical activities such as walking, swimming, shopping, and general socialising in the wider community. Including planning and attending person-centered annual holidays and days out.
Support workers at Peldon recognise the aspirations of, and work towards enabling, the people we support and help them to achieve their own life plans and develop life skills, through person-centered planning. This will include being actively involved in empowering them to make individual choices about their everyday living.
The role:
- Day-to-day responsibility for the running of the service, ensuring a high standard of delivery.
- Leading staff managers and allocating duties to ensure that all the people we support have their needs fully met
- To actively promote the development of each individual using a holistic approach, which demonstrates, an understanding of their personal, physical, emotional, spiritual and developmental needs.
- Supporting the team leader with rota management and maintaining clear communication
- Encouraging each individual person, we support to be as independent as possible recognising that emotional and practical support may be required
Applications are welcome from Senior Support workers who:
- Ideally you will hold or are working towards your HSC Level 3
- Previous experience in a similar role
- 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
The successful Senior Support worker must be prepared to work rostered alternate weekends.
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.