Activity Support Worker
Contract: Permanent Part Time
Hours: 22.5 hours
Salary: £29,334 per annum pro rata for Part Time (£17,368)
Location: NE London.
About Outward.
For 50 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people across London, predominantly in North East London. Established by families seeking alternatives to institutional care, we’ve grown into a respected provider of person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and complex needs. We support over 1,000 people across nine boroughs, guided by our core values: engage, enable, and empower.
Outward is proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer. This means we are committed to paying the Real Living Wage – not just the government minimum or national living wage – to our frontline Support Workers and other eligible staff. We recognise the value of the work our teams do, and we are committed to ensuring fair pay that reflects the true cost of living. The Real Living Wage is updated annually by the Living Wage Foundation, and Outward remains committed to aligning our pay accordingly.
About the Role
We are looking for a proactive and passionate activity support worker to join our dedicated team supporting adults with a range of needs, including learning disabilities, autism, mental health challenges, and complex support requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to support people to be thriving members of their community with a range of activities
As an activity support worker, you will play a key role in empowering the people we support to live independent and fulfilling lives. You’ll provide high-quality care and support, while also taking part in shift leading, planning and delivering activities, and play an active role in ensuring our services are person-centred, well-managed, and aligned with Outward’s core values of engage, enable, and empower.
Requirements
Your Responsibilities
As an Activity support worker, you will:
· Ensure that the activities on offer are person centred, and outcome focused
· Ensure activities are where possible within the wider community and involve using universal services.
· Ensure that there is constant involvement and consultation with the people using the service and their circle of support.
· Organise and facilitate activities at the Hub base and develop these with the members.
· Undertake shift leading and key working responsibilities
· Encourage all community-based activities to be accessed by public transport where possible.
· Record all information accurately and appropriately.
· Create and update club member’s risk assessments and support plans.
· To assist with any personal care or other needs of attendees.
· To support the attendees at all activities to get the most out of their time
· To market the service appropriately
· To ensure that all media relating to the service (plans, timetables, newsletters etc.) is accessible and created with the involvement of people using the service.
· To undertake other tasks in line with the role; daily cleaning duties and day to day petty cash monitoring.
How to Apply
The above is not an exhaustive list of requirements for the role.
If you think you are who we are looking for, please submit a CV and statement detailing how you feel your experiences meets the requirements of the role by referring to the Job Responsibilities and the Person Specification.
There is no specific closing date for this advert. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. It would be great to hear from you.
Benefits
When you join us, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits to support your wellbeing, development and work–life balance, including:
Full details of our rewards and benefits are available from our HR Team and through our Staff Room intranet.
Diversity and Safeguarding at Outward :
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Outward applies its Equal Opportunities Policy at all stages of recruitment and selection. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection is carried out without regard to gender, sexual orientation, marital status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age or trade union membership.
As an employer, who aspire to become Disability Confident Committed, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your supporting statement if you have a disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010), and you wish to be considered for an Offer Of an Interview (OOI) Please note that the OOI is available to disabled candidates only. Regrettably, any false declaration of disability in order to secure an interview will impact on your overall application.
Outward is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff to share this commitment. If the post you apply for involves working with or having access to adults at risk and/or their records, we will require a DBS for successful candidates.
Outward is a forward-thinking and inclusive charity that works across ten London Boroughs to support people to live with dignity and purpose.
We support: people with learning disabilities, including a specialised service that supports people on the autism spectrum, older people, people with mental health issues, and young people at risk.
Our work is diverse, from supporting people to live independently in their own homes to providing safe, secure accommodation and tailored support when and where it is needed. Everything we do is about enabling people to have greater choice, independence and control over how they live their own lives.
