Job Description

Team: Silsoe Horticultural Centre

Job Family: CBG8 - Supporting 

Salary: £31,022 - £33,851 per annum, pro rata

Hours: Full-time - 37 hours per week

Location: Silsoe Horticultural Centre, Silsoe

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 12th June 2026

Interview date: W/C Monday 22nd June 2026

About the Role:

We are recrutiing for a Senior Day Care Officer for the Silsoe Horticultural Centre. It operates from a three-acre horticultural site, including a Cafe, you will provide support to the Day Service Manager, in the leadership and operational oversight to a dedicated team, embracing and cultivating best practice in the delivery of the new evolving day offer. This will involve partnership working with the people that attend the day centre, carers, staff, volunteers, and colleagues both within Central Bedfordshire Council and the wider social care community.

Join us, and you’ll have the opportunity to develop as a manager within a supportive environment, and you can expect to be valued for your positive and dynamic leadership style. Even better, you’ll find your greatness as you develop the service so that the people that attend the centre are able to achieve their goals and aspirations.

To provide high-quality care and support for adults with learning disabilities, ensuring their physical, emotional, and social needs are met. The Senior Day Care Officer will lead and manage a team of staff, ensuring the delivery of person-centred services that promote independence, well-being, and social inclusion.

Experience working with adults with learning disabilities and within a social care setting, as well as ideally having knowledge and experience of horticultural matters is desired.

Experience in leadership and management, care planning and delivery, record keeping and administration, health and safety, risk assessments and safeguarding and promoting meaningful activities and engagement is also required. Additionally, we are looking for someone with experience in a supervisory or leadership role, strong communication and problem-solving and decision-making skills, ability to set a professional and a positive environment, commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, reflective leadership skills and someone who takes accountability. Crucially we are looking for someone who has a passion for involving people who attend the day centre, in the future developments of their services, whether it be for their wellbeing or future opportunities for volunteering and employment.

If you have the relevant knowledge skills and experience and wish to lead and develop the team to deliver a responsive, flexible, and resilient service underpinned by a caring, empathetic, compassionate, and confident operating culture, then we want to hear from you.

Our Offer

We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our  Recruitment Pack.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Deborah Townson at  Deborah.townson@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4641.

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Safeguarding (For DBS posts only):

Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.

Our National Careers Service team offer a free weekly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours Please book your place here.

More information about this service can be found here: Support getting into work or learning | Central Bedfordshire Council