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Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

We are seeking to recruit a 21 hour Outreach Support Worker to compliment our existing day support offer to adults with learning disabilities, Autism and dementia. This is an exciting new opportunity ideally suited to those who don't like two days being the same. If you have enthusiasm, are motivated and like a challenge, may be this role is for you.

Outreach Support Worker role will consist of supporting individuals at home, in the day service, assisting with medical appointments and telephone welfare calls. As these are new roles to our service, we anticipate the role may develop further over time, a willingness to adapt to the service and its users is therefore essential.

Applicants must be flexible, be able to work autonomously and across the borough confidently . The ideal candidate will have good interpersonal skills with service users, carers and professionals. Although this role involves lone-working in the main, the successful candidates will be working within a team. The role will also include electronic recording attending meetings and contribution to support plans.

An essential criteria for this role is being qualified to a minimum of NVQ L2, additional mandatory and essential training will be provided by St Helens Council as appropriate for this role. You will also be required to have full DBS clearance and you must have a full driving licence .

Full Job Description & Person Specification Documents are included with this advert.

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St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within selection.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles