Why Choose PossAbilities?

PossAbilities isn’t just a fantastic place to work; it’s a place where your heart can sing. Here’s why you’ll love working with us:

Awesome Pay: We proudly offer a real living wage. Earn £26,950 a year for a 37-hour workweek (pro-rata for part-timers).

Pension Perks: We contribute up to 4% of your salary into a pension plan.

Holiday Fun: Enjoy 20 days of annual leave (pro rata for part time) , 8 bank holidays, and access to our reduced rate holiday home at Ribby Hall Village, 3 extra days holiday on completion of 5 years service!

Duvet Days: Perfect attendance? Have a paid day off to chill!

Health & Wellbeing : Access for you and your dependants for free 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme support, including counselling, and internally trained Mental Health First Aiders to support you.

Social Events: Join fun events with the people we support, staff, and their families.

Discounts & Benefits: We’re a Flexible Pay Employer that offers Wagestream. The money management app lets you choose when to get paid, put money aside each month, get discounts on your shopping, check your benefits entitlement and much more. Not just that but as an employee of PossAbilities you are eligible for a Blue Light Card, ESSO discounted fuel card & similarly a Love2Shop – Every Day Benefits Card all easy-to-use discount schemes which saves you money on your day-to-day spending. We will even refund you the joining fee!

On our latest staff survey 98% of respondents said they were proud to work for PossAbilities and 95% said they were happy working here!

Where?

We work in many locations, mainly across the Rochdale area. The advert you responded to will tell you your main working location, but you may be asked to work in another location to best meet the needs of our service users.

What?

The Triple A Support Worker has a wide range of duties and tasks. There’s more about these later. The main aim is to provide the best personalised support to young people aged 13 to 25 with ASC or who experience Neurodiversity.

The Hours:

Our service users’ needs come first, and so we need flexibility when it comes to your working hours. We generally work anytime between the hours of 8.00am and 5.00pm. However, there may be occasions when evening or weekend working will be necessary in order to support a customer in work.

Your Role:

Responsibilities:

1.To support young people with ASC and Neurodiversity to gain confidence in their local communities.

2.To build communication and social skills, enabling them to build and form lasting relationships.

3.To support them one to one, in order to gain rust and build confidence.

4.To support them in group activities in the local community.

5.To support them to make decisions and develop new ideas for activities.

6.For those aged 18 plus to support them into voluntary and work placements

7.To support those who are ready into paid employment.

8.To be aware of and report any safeguarding concerns in line with company policy.

General Duties:

1. To provide support to job search and complete application forms

2. To provide employment support to young people and their employers.

3. To provide a range of social care support to enable participants to find and keep employment.

4. To undertake tasks as detailed and prescribed in their action plans.

5. To keep accurate daily case notes.

6. To support with the quarterly reporting on the contract.

Secondary Duties:

1. Attend regular staff meetings.

2. Maintain a working knowledge of routine fire safety, health and safety and safeguarding in line with procedures of PossAbilities and current legislation.

3. Take responsibility for own health and safety and that of people the service supports, work colleagues and others, to report any risk to the line manager.

4. Be familiar with and work within the organisation’s policies and procedures, maintaining records and reports accordingly.

5. Keep senior staff informed regarding the client’s development, welfare and other

6. As directed, to provide relief cover for other staff working in other locations.

7. Work in conjunction with more senior staff to make suggestions for the improvement of services.

8. Undertake such other duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may be determined from time-to-time by the chief executive

Training & Development

• Participate in appropriate training and development as required, be responsible in the identification, and undertaking of his/her own training and development.
• Attend and actively engage in supervisions, appraisals’ and team meetings

Equality & Diversity

• To work in accordance with the organisation policies and procedures relating to the promotion of Equality and Diversity.
• Our values lie at the heart of the organisation and underpin everything we do. It is essential that all staff share our values and work together in achieving our mission statement.

Our Values

You will also be expected to live our values everyday:

Integrity

We communicate openly and honestly and build relationships based on trust, respect and caring.

Creativity

We thrive on innovation and encourage positive risk taking.

Happy

We believe fun is the key to success

Person centred

We believe that everyone has the right to exercise choice and control in directing their lives and support. We inspire people to achieve greater things.

 

Passionate

We are dedicated to, and enthusiastic about, providing exceptional services.

Don’t just take our word for it:

We were named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2025!

We were awarded Highly Commended for Employer of the Year at the 2024 National Learning Disability & Autism Awards.

What’s it like to work at PossAbilities? Watch and find out… https://vimeo.com/907456586/b2d034812c?share=copy or check our brochure here

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and supported. We believe that diversity drives innovation and we actively seek to foster an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all employees, ensuring that our team reflects the diverse communities we serve.

PossAbilities are a Disability Confident employer therefore we commit to providing those with a disability, who meet the essential criteria, an interview for the role.

If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please email HRadmin@possabilities.org.uk, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Still not sure? Complete our expression of interest form and someone will give you a call back to chat things through with you.