Enablement Support Workers - Integrated Reablement Service

You will work four days out of seven on a planned rota, working a mixture of days and evenings or evenings only. In return, you will further develop your skills and gain valuable experience in Social Care and be part of an innovative service.

You must demonstrate how you meet the Essential criteria listed in the attached Person Specification in order to secure an interview:

How to apply

Guidance for applicants Torfaen County Borough Council.

Various hours available up to 32 hours per week. We currently have vacancies within Torfaen County Borough Council’s Domiciliary Care Team. We are part of Torfaen’s Integrated Reablement Service (IR) and provide services to individuals living in the community to support them to live independently, safely and well in their own homes or during reablement stays at Ty Glas y Dorlan.

The IR Service operates from Ty Glas y Dorlan and offers a flexible and responsive service which provides practical help, personal care and support in a way that is focused on enabling individuals following illness and/or hospital stay to maximise and maintain their independence in a way that is focused on “what matters” to them and their personal outcomes. Our Enablement Support Workers are expected to work throughout the borough of Torfaen (North and South) or at Ty Glas y Dorlan.

Requirements:

• Basic understanding of care in the community and experience of caring for individuals in a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Comfortable working on your own, flexible approach, and ability to maintain good working relationships with the individuals you will support.
• Enthusiastic enabling approach and promotion of independence.
• Current UK driving licence, business insurance and use of transport – essential.
• Qualification to NVQ level II in Care – or willingness to work towards QCF Level 2 in Health & Social Care.
• Registration as a Domiciliary Care Worker under the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.

Benefits:

• 25% weekend work, 15% evening and additional bank holiday working enhancements.
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holiday entitlement).
• Mileage allowance of 45 p per mile and paid travelling time.
• Pension scheme.
• Free DBS checks, uniforms and PPE equipment.
• Mobile phone and electronic rosters.