Support Worker ASC

Support Worker ASC

Secondment, Full Time

£25,081 up to £25,395 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

Closing Date: 13th March 2026

Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for up to 12 months

The Role

Community Support Worker – Reablement Service

We’re seeking a dedicated and compassionate Community Support Worker to join our brand-new, forward-thinking Reablement Team. In this rewarding role, you’ll provide short-term, person‑centred support to adults in their own homes, helping them regain independence, confidence, and daily living skills after illness, injury, or life changes. Working closely with Occupational Therapists, you’ll deliver tailored reablement plans that make a meaningful difference every day.

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The Opportunity

The Support Worker is a team member in a residential care home providing person centred care to Adults with a learning disability. The role will make the best and most sustainable use of all resources available to the adult, their families and carers ensuring they have access to information and tools to enable them to live healthily and independently for as long as possible and to exercise choice and control over their lives, while ensuring safety, dignity and quality of life. 

The role will implement each individuals care plan and programme, and provide support to individuals to access occupation, interests, healthcare facilities and other such areas to achieve the outcomes identified within the assessment process and care plan. 

The role will understand the need to prepare individuals for an independent lifestyle, and support them to gain and maintain maximum independence through the acquisition of skills, social networks and practical support thereby facilitating lifestyle choices that enable people to live in their own homes. 

Accountabilities

• Responsible for providing personal support and assisting, teaching and encouraging service users’ personal hygiene skills such as, skincare, bathing, hair washing, ensuring the dignity of the service user is respected at all times. 

• Responsible for demonstrating skills to enable and teach individuals’ to achieve measurable outcomes designed to improve their lifestyles by ensuring individuals’ have maximum control and choice in respect of their own lives. 
• Supporting individuals to achieve the optimum of independence in daily living skills such as shopping, cooking and cleaning, and in liaison with the service user plan delivering any necessary additional practical support. 
• Working flexibly to meet the needs of the service users which requires working in a variety of different environments. 
• Contributing to Care Plans, assessments, risk assessments and maintaining accurate and factual records in respect of service users’ progress. 
• Responsible for handling information, whether verbal or written, in accordance with the Data Protection Act. 
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework. 

The Experience You Will Bring

Skills, Knowledge and Experience 

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent by experience. Diploma in Health and Social Care Level 3 or be prepared to work towards it. 
• Certificates of Competence in respect of: Manual Handling: First Aid(if required); Food Hygiene; Risk and Conflict Management ; Medication Administration; POVA; Mental Health Capacity Act 2007, Confidentiality, Data Protection; Health & Safety and other such competencies. 
• Good verbal and written English skills. 
• Understanding of the purpose of social care. 
• Understanding of, and the ability to develop knowledge of, the needs of individuals and legislation in respect of Vulnerable Adults, Mental Capacity and other such relevant legislation, policy and procedure. 
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people 
• Ability to work to the legislative requirements of the post including National Care Standards. 

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we’re committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you.

In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government’s devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. You can read more about devolution and local government reorganisation (LGR) on our careers site.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency.  Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service.  The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate.  This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained.  For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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