Cover Facilitator to run engaging activities for adults with additional needs at Key Enterprises
Contract Type: Casual
Role Type: Employment
Hours: Part time
Application deadline:
Based: North Tyneside
Salary: £14 Per Hour
Salary Type: Fixed Salary
Location: Tyne and Wear
Role description: Officer
Key is a day service charity based in Benton which provies supported activities for adults with a wide range of needs. We are seeking motivated, value driven, flexible staff to run supported activitites for adults with learning disabilities / difficulties, mental health needs or acquired brain injuries. We are looking for candidates that can flexibly support our service users by running activities that are stimulating and engaging from our base in Benton but also accessing community activities all over the region.
We are seeking candidates with skills in any of the following areas:
- Music, art and drama
- Woodwork
- Gardening
- Cooking/baking
- Life skills and personal development
- Outdoor pursuits
- Personal training/ making exercise accessible
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Planning and facilitating activities within Key Enterprises and the wider community using your skills to support learning and the completion of tasks.
- Supporting service users to complete appropriate tasks safely
- Risk assessing activities and liaising with managers to manage risk and ensure safety is prioritised
- To actively promote the company with the objective of attracting new gardening contracts and outdoor projects.
- Maintain an awareness of the changing needs of service users
- Operate under the general direction of the Company’s Management and Board and comply with all approved policies and procedures
- Work flexibly to cover staff absences or additional service demand
Essential Skills
- An awareness of a mental illness, learning disabilities or day service services
- Experience in any of the following: music, art and drama, crafts, woodwork, gardening, cooking/baking, outdoor pursuits, personal training
- Able to plan and organise effectively
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to communicate with a range of people, using a variety of communication methods
- A passion for working with people with additional needs and providing person-centred support
- Understand confidentiality
- Competent in the use of IT including Office products
- Self-motivation and an ability to work independently
Desirable Skills
- Training or qualifications relating to mental health, learning disabilities or brain injuries
- Hold a full, clean driving licence
- An awareness of safeguarding
This is a casual hours position and shifts will be offered as and when they are available working flexibly to your availability as well as our availability of shifts, regular hours are not guaranteed. A full working week is 37.5 hours between 08:30 - 16:30 Monday to Friday but there'll likely be times you are required to work only a single day or morning/afternoon session.
To discuss this role, please contact Robert Steer, Service Manager on 0191 270 1138.
To apply, please send a C.V. along with a covering letter explain how you meet the essential criteria of the role, including examples, to robert@key-enterprises.com
APPOINTMENT IS SUBJECT TO SATISFACTORY REFERENCES AND A DBS CHECK.
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