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Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges. Now in our 70^th year, our focus on humanity and nature was inspired by our past and remains as key to the Trust’s ethos today. This is reflected in our focus on social and green care integration, valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons, and respecting the rhythm of natural life.

We operate in both rural and urban communities, building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues to play to our strengths.

We continue to support adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges to live their best, independent lives. By applying our core values to modern social care, we ensure that our provision remains relevant to supported people and social care commissioners today.

• 25 days paid annual leave plus statutory bank holidays. 
• For those employees who need to prioritise pay over annual leave, we give employees the option of “cashing in” one week of their annual leave to supplement their pay in January each year. 
• Company sick pay after 1 month starting at 4 weeks and increasing to 12 weeks with service. 
• Life Cover for all employees– which means that everyone’s family will receive a payment if a colleague sadly dies while working for the Trust (subject to the terms and conditions of the cover). 
• Pension scheme, we have the option for employees to increase their contribution to 10% and will receive a 6% contribution from the charity. 
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program with a 24/7 helpline for advice and support, including face-to-face counselling. 
• Employees and their family have access to preferential prices and discounts in store and online for a wide range of goods and services ranging from laptops and other electronic items, holidays, and cinema tickets and a points-based reward/cashback scheme. 
• Induction and training programme for new support workers with support to obtain qualifications relevant to their role. 
• Employees who introduce a friend to work with the charity receive a thank you of £250 through payroll, Terms & Conditions apply. 
• Chance to take part in the Health & Wellbeing Initiatives within the charity. 

• Planning and providing support and care to foster the wellbeing and development of people we support in accordance with their person-centred support and care plan, recording and reviewing progress as directed so that they can fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control. You will support them to:
• Maintain a clean, tidy, and welcoming living environment.
• Use appropriate laundry equipment so they can be enabled to do their laundry and clothing.
• Plan a menu based on their health, individual preferences and diet choices, make a shopping list, prepare and cook the food and consider safe handling and storage.
• Be healthy by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments.
• Budget, access benefits, maintain their tenancy, monitor their finances and access services from their landlord.
• Maintain an active and supportive social life considering individual choices and wishes.
• Providing personal care where required and appropriate as a part of the support and care plan (e.g. bathing, hair washing etc) and where the appropriate registration is in place.
• Administering, recording, ordering and checking medication.
• Completing related paperwork which includes support plans, daily updates, person profiles, risk assessments, incident reporting, behaviour reports and notes/updates on health appointments.

• You will preferably have experience of supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and distressed behaviours/emotions. However, this is not essential as training will be given.
• Driving license is desirable, but not essential.
• Sleep ins are required for this role.
• You’ll have a desire to support people to achieve a life full of opportunities. Experience is not needed but an understanding of the importance of supporting someone to have autonomy in their life is.
• You’ll have a supportive and encouraging natural approach: our tenants live in their own homes or shared houses and will need support and guidance to maintain their home, use laundry equipment, cook, plan shopping and look after their finances.
• You’ll have a creative spirit and be keen to help arrange local and community-based events with the people we support e.g. coffee mornings, film clubs.
• You’ll have a good general education, good numeracy and literacy skills; it’s not essential for you to have any qualifications as we will support you in gaining these.
• You will have a good general knowledge of IT skills.