Coach4Independence - Supported Living Team
Permanent - Full time or Part time available
Rota based providing 24-hour cover, including every other weekend
Sleep-in shifts are also available
About the Role
Are you someone who wants to make a genuine difference in people’s lives - not by caring for someone, but by walking beside them, during the journey of life.
This role offers a meaningful opportunity to make a genuine difference by enabling individuals to live in and take pride in their own homes, build independence, confidence and meaningful connections with dignity.
You will play a key role in enabling people to develop skills, engage with their communities and live empowered, fulfilling lives, exploring interests and achieving personal goals.
Key Responsibilities
1. Coaching & Daily Living Support
- Coach and support individuals in daily living skills, including self-care, domestic tasks and maintaining a safe, healthy home environment.
- Promote independence through practical skill-building and encouraging personal choice and control.
- Support participation in community activities, employment opportunities, hobbies and social relationships.
- Encourage independence while respecting individual choice, dignity and rights.
2. Health & Wellbeing
- Promote healthy lifestyles, including nutrition, exercise and emotional wellbeing
- Support with personal care and medication, where required.
3. Risk Management & Safeguarding
- Promote positive risk taking while ensuring the safety and wellbeing of individuals
- Enable problem solving, complete risk assessments, incident reports and implement proactive support strategies
- Maintain strong safeguarding practices, confidentiality and professional standards
4. Communication & Record Keeping
- Maintain accurate, clear and timely records
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, families and external professionals
- Work collaboratively within a team to deliver high-quality, consistent support
5. Professional Practice
- Uphold dignity, respect and individual rights, at all times
- Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning and development
- Maintain professional boundaries and contribute to team culture
Person Specification - Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- A compassionate, proactive, flexible, respectful and calm approach with commitment to empowering independence
- Strong communication and recording keeping skills
- Ability to build positive relationships, engage individuals and groups
- Experience/understanding of health & wellbeing
- Experience providing personal care and supporting diverse needs
- Experience in supporting adults with additional learning needs, learning disabilities or neurodiversity
- Awareness of learning disabilities, Care Act & CQC requirements
- Awareness of safeguarding and good professional practice
- Ability to manage workload, prioritise tasks and adapt to varied environments
- Understanding of person-led and strengths-based approaches
- Knowledge of community inclusion, equality and diversity
- Commitment to professional standards and continuous learning
- Transferrable skills
- Current full UK driving licence and use of a vehicle (advantageous)
Why join us
- A meaningful role with real social impact
- Opportunity to change perceptions and promote understanding within the community
- Supportive, values-led workplace
- Enrolment into our workplace pension scheme into which 4EDEN contributes 3% of your salary if you meet qualifying criteria
- Enrolment into an employer paid healthcare scheme that allows you to claim money towards the cost of dental, optical and other medical expenses and additional benefits for your well-being with the option to add your partner and free children’s cover
- Your birthday off every year – paid
- Training and development opportunities
- Employees are eligible for the Blue Light Card, giving you access to a wide range of discounts across retail, travel, leisure and more (subscription reimbursement)
- Guaranteed monthly salary BACS into your bank account 3-working days before the end of every month
- Introduce a friend scheme - £100 for you & £100 for your friend (subject to terms and conditions)
- Branded workwear
- Christmas voucher
We’re actively hiring so, if you’d like to make a real difference, share some fabulous experiences and know that every day you can make someone’s life better, we would love to hear from you!
Whilst we are happy to view your CV, to progress to the next stage of our recruitment process 4Eden require you to complete and submit our application form which is available to download from our website or you can call us to request a copy and learn more about us and what we do!
Email : [email protected]
Telephone : 01768 892014
Website : www.4eden.co.uk
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £13.45 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount
Location:
Work Location: In person
