Stourport-on-Severn DY13 8BE
Full job description
Could you be a Sense Community Support Worker?
We now have a fantastic opportunity for a Communicator Guide (Community Support Worker) to join our team in Stourport-on-Severn (Worcestershire).
This is a permanent role, working 11 hours per week. For Communicator Guide (Community Support Worker) role, you will receive £11.75 per hour. You require a full UK license with business insurance added on and must be willing to drive around the West Midlands. Prior experience with the deafblind community would be beneficial.
This is a fun and rewarding opportunity to support a Lady who has deafblindness to access the community for social and leisure purposes. She communicates via fingerspelling on the individual’s cheek and responds in speech.
As a Communicator Guide, you will be supporting the person to participate in activities they enjoy and have meaningful experiences. You will support them to make their own choices of how they want to spend their day, but a typical day in this role might be spent:
- Doing activities like listening to music
- Going for a massage
- Horse-riding sessions
The shift pattern for this role is flexible and can be mutually agreed with the individual.
Does this sound right for you?
Working at Sense gives you a wide range of benefits including:
- 24 days’ holiday + bank holidays; increasing with length of service
- Free DBS Check
- Free access to over 100 online and face to face training including the care certificate.
- On-going development opportunities
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Employee referral scheme
- Health and well-being support
- Pension Scheme
- Discount scheme
- Headspace App- free for all employees to mindfulness application
About Sense
For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition, we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.