Care and Support Worker Level 3

1. Ceredigion County Council is transforming the way individuals and families will receive early help and care and support when they need it.
2. This is an exciting opportunity to work as a specialist support worker within the disabilities team, to support children and adults who have autism.
3. You will have access to the discretionary benefits of hybrid working, flexible timing.

Reference: REQ105667

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a specialist Support Worker within the Disabilities Team, to support children and adults who have Autism.

Main duties will include working with children and adults who have a diagnosis of Autism and ensuring that their voices are heard and are able to feel part of the community in which they live.

It will be expected of you to have good communication skills and ability to be organised, as setting up support groups and activity sessions will form part of this role. As well as this, there will be some 1:1 working with children and adults, to try and develop their personal and independent skills, such as cooking, cleaning or developing their independent travelling skills.

Successful applicants will need a basic understanding of the Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014 and experience of working with children and adults with disabilities. An understanding of the Autism code of practice will also be needed.

It is an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to contribute with the implementation of the Porth Cynnal Integrated Through Age Services Model.

Ceredigion County Council is transforming the way individuals and families will receive early help and care and support when they need it. We are developing through age and well-being services, new ways of working and a range of exciting initiatives that will help ensure individual and community resilience. This also means that we want to build a flexible and skilled workforce that can make a positive difference to people’s lives.

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

• Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location.
• Flexi-time: Hours may be worked within a defined bandwidth, Monday to Friday, subject to service needs.

Contract Hours: 22.2 hours / Permanent

Location: Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth