The Royal Borough of Greenwich Reablement service provides planned, short term intensive help at home to adult and older people with physical and learning disabilities that have recently been discharged from hospital or assistance at home that can help them to avoid going into hospital or nursing/residential care. Support is provided to client’s who need short term assistance to enable them to regain their independence.

You must be able to cope with the physical and emotional demands of this high profile job and need to demonstrate your skills and experiences to support these client groups.

You will need to have a flexible approach as we work on a rota basis between 7am and 11pm every day of the year. We are looking for staff that will be able to work a variety of shifts within these times.

The service is borough wide so you need to be a car driver with the use of a car and have a full clean licence – car mileage allowance is payable.

You must have a NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care. All mandatory training will be given, however you must have working knowledge on reablement.

For further details please contact the Reablement Service on 020 8921 3383 or via email winsome.barrett@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or janet.bennett@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk. As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974)

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated

A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

This opportunity has recently been advertised as an opportunity for current RBG employees (internal only advertising). Applications received during the internal advertising period have been considered and processed. If you were interviewed for this position via an application to this job advertisement during the internal advertising period, any further application will not be shortlisted.

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application. If you have a disability and are unable to meet some of the job requirements specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be shortlisted and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.