Support Worker ASC
Secondment, Full Time
£25,081 up to £25,395 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
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.
