Facilitator

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Are you passionate, enthusiastic, and self-motivated? If you have experience of building positive community relationships then please keep reading.....
 
We are recruiting for a Me Time Facilitator. Me Time is Mencap’s social inclusion, leisure, and community-based programme. It supports people with a learning disability to develop skills and confidence, expand their networks, and be fully included in their local community.
 
This role is a 20 hour per week, permanent contract, based in Suffolk.
 
As a Facilitator you will be a valued colleague in the Me Time Team, in this role, you will be flexible and committed to supporting people.

Key responsibilities for a Facilitator in Me Time
Has an active and positive colleague contribution by providing ideas and solutions to improve individual and team performance.
Ensure the plans we put in place for the people we support are person centred and the person is fully involved in all aspect of the planning and review process.
Being able to be creative, dynamic, and adaptable to potential challenging scenarios in relation to the needs of the people we support.
Complete all paperwork requirements in a timely manner and ensure high quality reporting and recording.
Communicate with the people being always supported with dignity and respect.
To be able to build a rapport with not only the people we support but the wider community including family members.
Work in a way that enables the people supported to make decisions and choices and allow them to access new opportunities in line with the life they want to lead.The Me Time model is person centred and focused on improving quality of life for the people engaged on the programme as well as providing pathways to other opportunities, for example employment.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and welcome applicants with disabilities to apply for all roles with us. To find out more about the scheme please visit the direct gov website.

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Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
24 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support*T&C's apply based on contract

About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.  
Our work includes;

providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
providing advice through our help lines and web sites