Community Enablement Worker (CEW)

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

As a Community Enablement Worker within the LIVE team you will be supporting adults with complex disabilities work towards, and achieve their Learning, Independence, Volunteering and Employment goals. 

LIVE is an enabling service. We encourage and support positive risk taking. 

As a CEW you will work with our customers to create vocational profiles and development plans, focussed on goals and ambitions. Raising ambition and challenging fears, stereotypes and myths will be an important part of your role. 

You will be based at a LIVE site as well as within the community, and onsite with employers. We believe everybody can work and achieve with the right support. Our CEW team are key to understanding what support needs to look like and how we can best deliver to meet the needs of our customers.  

If you can help us smash glass ceilings and leap over barriers, we would love to hear from you. 

What will you be doing?

• Identifying support needs and identifying solutions and resolves
• Employer engagement
• Job coaching
• Raising ambitions and supporting people to achieve their full potential 
• Working with customers in groups and on a one-to-one basis
• Supporting at places of work and within the community, including our LIVE projects
• Creating bespoke vocational profiles 
• Working with customers to write development plans focussed on goals
• Supporting LIVE to raise our profile, positively risk take and break down barriers

About you

• Creative
• Patient
• Positive approach to problem solving
• Good communicator
• Team focussed
• Person centred approach. All about the can do, we are not about the can't
• Good IT skills
• Considerate
• Positive approach and committed to diversity and inclusion

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)