Relief Employability Support Workers – March, Ely and Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme (subject to operational demands)
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
We have a unique opportunity for additional support workers to join our team to provide practical support for work led and experience-based learning for adults with disabilities.
The Employability Support Workers support individuals to gain the skills and experience to enable them to move to voluntary or paid work and provide practical support, training, and encouragement so that trainees can build on their own skills and abilities whilst respecting their individual needs and choices.
The role will be on a relief basis to cover stafff absences with working hours between 8.50am – 4pm Monday to Friday (some flexibility may be required depending on service need).
Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. As this is a relief post on a zero-hours contract, it does not meet the salary or eligibility requirements for sponsorship.
For more information or to chat about these opportunities please contact Kayleigh Carroll on 07776 679496 or Karen Hubbard onKaren.Hubbard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
You will have an awareness of working with people with learning and/or physical disabilities, experience in a customer facing role and promoting skills for those individuals with a disability. You will be flexible and adaptable as the service grows and develops.
You will be able to demonstrate skills with baking cakes and pastries as this is a large part of the role and will be tested as part of the interview.
Please use your supporting statement to outline how your skills and experience meet the Essential Criteria outlined in the Job description/Person specification attached to this vacancy. Please also state if you have a preference on location.
Interviews will be held at each of our locations w/c 12th and 19th October 2026.
Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…