Family Support Assistant

Grade E scp 11 £28,142 to scp 17 £31,022 pro rata £15,211 to £16,768, essential car user allowance up to £963pa pay award pending
Contract: Permanent

Essential requirement: full driving licence
Hours: 20 per week
Essential qualification: (NNEB/ NVQ / QCF Level 2 / BETEC Health & Social Care / Youth and community work, Social Care Certificate.
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact: Jayne.entwisle@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role

The BRIDGES Family Support Team supports disabled children and their families.
As a Family Support Assistant, you will be a vital part of the team providing practical and personal support to disabled children. The support you will offer may be in their own homes or to enable them to get out and about.

7% Enhancement for unsociable hours and weekend working

Bridges Family Support Team is unique! It’s a fabulous team with outstanding outcomes for disabled children, young people, and their families.

You will be operating within the wider Short Break Care team meeting the assessed need of disabled children and their families across Bolton.
This is a team with a strong ethos of person-centred planning responding to individual needs of each child.
Hours of work vary from person to person according to need, and team members pride themselves on their flexibility. This includes some weekend work and both early morning and late evening shifts.

About You

You will be a highly motived individual, comfortable working within a team or by yourself, caring for disabled children and young people.
You will be committed and passionate about providing high quality, person centred practical, emotional and social support to the children in your care.
You won’t be expected to know everything, but you must want to work alongside our children and families and be willing to learn from them, our team members and by undertaking formal training.
You will care about what you do and want to provide the highest quality care and experience you can.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk