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Do you have what it takes to join the Osborne Partnership team…?
Can you work both in a team or on your own initiative…?
Do you want to work in a progressive, dynamic, and ever-changing environment…?
Can you train, support and coordinate Adults with Learning Disabilities to learn and achieve their social and economic potential…?
Can you work across our services (Horticulture, Café, Arts & Crafts, Studio Services, Recycling and TOP Shop) supporting our Partners to develop as well as being a caring person…?
If you can answer YES to all or most of the above, then we would really like to hear from you.
The Osborne Partnership is an exciting Day & Learning Support service working primarily with Adults with Learning Difficulties (…our Partners) and other disadvantaged groups supporting them to gain life skills and accredited training through hands on practical in-house work experience and other supporting services.
We work with, and in, our local community in the heart of Dagenham and our Partners are at the forefront of our community facing services and products including our much supported community clothes recycling scheme (…we call it TOPs); our horticultural, woodcraft and garden growing programme (…vegetables, fruit and an array of beautiful flowers in a stunning garden setting); as well as our Community Tea Rooms. It’s an exciting place to work and develop your career and this post is aimed at supporting a vacancy across the organisation!
Job Description
Overall purpose:
To work in the Osborne Partnership and across all services as and when required and at all other times to provide support (and train and assess as appropriate) to individuals and groups of adults with learning disabilities (“Partners”) in their training programmes, their preparation for employment and in their engagement in other daytime activities.
Main Duties:
1. To ensure that the organisational service areas are fully operational every weekday and to work closely with the Service Manager (line manager) on Schemes of Work preparation, hygiene and cleanliness for Partners and staff.
2. To liaise daily with the Service Manager to ensure that there is coordination and support in respect of the designated service and associated tasks.
3. To offer support and assistance to Partners in employment preparation (through service activities), on training courses or engaged in other daytime activities designed to increase their independence and well-being.
4. To assist in the planning, preparation and delivery of training activities for Partners/ learners on both accredited and unaccredited training courses and projects as appropriate.
5. To plan, or assist in the planning, of daily work/ activities and training schedules for Partners/ learners in advance, ensuring adequate stocks and materials required to complete daily tasks are ordered and available before work runs out.
6. To assist Partners/ learners in developing and maintaining appropriate skills to further their preparation for employment and increase their independence and well-being (e.g. basic skills, manual handling, PPE, Health and Safety training, good time keeping, appropriate dress codes, hygiene, etc).
7. To assist in ensuring that any machinery and equipment used in the day to day running of work projects and training programmes is operating correctly and safely.
8. To assist Partners/ learners in ensuring that all work tasks and units of training undertaken are completed to the required quality and standard.
9. To deal with and resolve day to day problems in relation to specific Partners/ learners and to refer more complex ongoing problems to the Service Manager or Senior Management Team.
10. To ensure that all work carried out is in accordance with the organisation’s Health and Safety policy.
11. To take responsibility for Health and Safety in the work/ training units and in other community-based activities as appropriate.
12. To accompany and support Partners/ learners engaged in projects and activities in community-based settings and related activities.
13. To support Partners engaged in all centre-based projects, arts and crafts, cafe/catering, recycling, shop/retail, I.T., performing arts, etc as and when required and to support overall centre staffing capacity.
14. To carry out the range of administrative duties associated with the post (e.g. registration of “Partners”, compiling behavioural/ problem evidence by means of written reports, incident reports, accident reports, etc.)
15. To support the Service Manager/ Senior Management Team in the regular monitoring and evaluation of Partners/ learners by assisting with the completion of appropriate internal Monitoring Forms.
16. To attend and contribute to regular staff meetings regarding day to day matters in relation to the conduct/ behaviour of Partners/learners and other organisational matters.
17. To undergo training necessary in relation to the requirements of the post.
18. To undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with the overall purpose of the post within the competence of the post holder.
N.B. As the Osborne Partnership works with and supports vulnerable adults, all posts require post holders to be in possession of a current DBS clearance (formerly Criminal Records Bureau – (CRB) at non enhanced level.
Pay: £14.14-£14.80 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
