Workshop Support Worker, Croft Community

workshop support worker Job Description and Person Specification

Croft Community, Highfield Road, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 7DB

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Job title:

Workshop Support Worker

Location: Purpose:

Salary:

Croft Community, Malton GOOGLE MAP Working as part of the Croft Community workshop team to support adults with learning disabilities and others that use our services, to access the opportunities for work and development that exist in the Kingfisher café, garden, textiles, crafts, enterprise and other workshops which run at Croft and also in the local community. £19,500 per year (You will be paid every four weeks at £10.00 per hour)

Hours:

37.5 hours Monday to Sunday (part time hours considered)

Are you creative?

Would you enjoy teaching the people we support new skills?

We have an opening for you to join us as a Workshop Support Worker at our Croft Community in, Malton. If the following appeals, we’d love to hear from you: •

You crave the autonomy and freedom to provide true person-centred support: the people we support all have differing needs and wants; you are instrumental in making it happen!

You want to become a real part of someone’s life and be able to support them in all their activities.

You have a passion for helping others live a fulfilling and interesting life.

You’ll have a fun but mature attitude.

Creative and willing to learn new skills

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Who are we looking for?

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You will have a desire to support people achieve a life full of opportunities. Experience in not needed but an understanding of the importance of supporting someone to have autonomy in their life is.

• You’ll have a supportive and encouraging natural approach.

• You’ll have a good general education, good numeracy and literacy skills: it’s not essential for you to have any qualifications as we will support you in gaining these.

• You’ll be responsible for ensuring that care and support is of a high standard, focused on person centered outcomes and delivered within budget • Experience working within a catering or retail workshop setting, working with plants and gardens and experience in craft/textiles or production work.

• Someone who is also keen to help arrange local and community-based events with the people we support. You’ll have a creative spirit and be keen to get involved or help create events e.g. coffee mornings, film clubs …..

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What do we offer you?

Our other benefits include: • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) rising to 35 days at two years’ service • An opportunity to ‘cash in’ 1 week leave a year • Employee assistance scheme that is also available to your immediate family • Free on-site parking • Sick pay entitlement after one month service: four weeks increasing with service • Pension Scheme: we contribute to a pension scheme along with your personal contributions • Death in Service benefits: payments made to your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen All of our employees will require a DBS criminal record check. We can do this for you.

How will we support you?

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You will have a manager on site to support you, provide a structured induction and ensure you have the tools and confidence to undertake the role A development programme to help you build your skills and experience in a managerial role A team of dedicated partners within our Finance Team and a Quality Practitioner You’re not alone but you do have a great deal of autonomy

About the charity: Camphill Village Trust is an award-winning national charity supporting people with learning and other disabilities. We provide housing, care, support and day opportunities to people with learning and other difficulties. We support people to be safe, healthy, happy and to be active citizens living a life of opportunity.

About Croft Community and the service: Croft Community is a vibrant community for adults with learning and other disabilities and mental health conditions, situated in Malton, North Yorkshire. We support amazing people to realise their potential.

Many of our community members live on site in a mixture of shared houses and independent flats, or in our housing around the town.

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Duties and Responsibilities: 1.

Support the people who use our services, to take advantage of the meaningful work and opportunities within Croft Community workshops, and, where appropriate, support the obtaining of accredited qualifications and learning, development and progression.

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Work to the risk & needs assessments and support plans of the people we support so that they can take part in, and meaningfully contribute to, the workshop activity and have the opportunity to experience variety and progression.

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Support the operation of the workshops, so that, where practicable, they operate in accordance with the trusts ethos and provides produce to high quality within the production timelines necessary to meet the needs of the community and for retail purposes.

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When trained, from time to time, supervise the workshop and those that work there.

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Work within the appropriate policies, procedures, practices and controls.

6. Ensure that appropriate recording and reporting arrangements are used to support and evidence that contractual and regulatory requirements are met, having particular regard to health and safety requirements.

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Keep all appropriate records and information in an orderly manner and on a timely basis, provide any information and documentation required. Prepare regular reports on the workshop activity as required to help make sure there is accurate and timely information available about the workshop.

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Undertake such other tasks as required individually or with others to develop and maintain the high quality of service required to fulfil the vison of the community. For example, actively participating in meetings and in relevant training.

9. Assisting the Workshop Managers in organising the workshop to support festivals.

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A bit more about us and what we have at Croft Community:

We offer a programme of activities and supported work opportunities, including Kingfisher Café.

Kingfisher Café in the heart of Malton, is a social enterprise supporting people with learning disabilities to gain experience in a busy café environment.

Get creative at our Craft Workshop! We make chocolates, decorative paper, candles, soaps and bath melts. You can also try flower-pressing, pottery and painting. Some of our products are made to order for retail, others are just for the enjoyment of developing our skills.

At Croft we also have a textiles workshop, this workshop offers a range of traditional and modern craft activities, including woodcrafts, weaving, felting, knitting and sewing. The people we support rediscover old skills and learn new ones.

At our market garden we grow fruit, vegetables, and herbs, providing Croft Community members and Kingfisher Café with delicious homegrown fresh produce.

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