Sighted Assistant
Place of work
Work from home
Job details
Job description, work day and responsibilities
Job description
This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United Kingdom
Sighted Assistant
COMPENSATION TYPE: £27,277 (National Framework) or £32,679 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home. Please note, this will be pro rata
Hours: Part-time, 14 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Homebased
Closing date: Thursday 17th October 2024 at 11.59pm
About Us
We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.
Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.
One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.
We’re now looking for a Sighted Assistant to join our team on a permanent, part-time basis, working 14 hours per week.
The Benefits
- 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking
Why this could be a great role for you…
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised individual with an administrative background to join our inclusive and compassionate organisation.
You’ll be making a critical difference to another individual’s life and career, ensuring they can undertake their duties effectively and enabling their work on a day-to-day basis.
Within a supportive team, you’ll discover a great range of benefits alongside the chance to support someone else and, with a time commitment of just 14 hours per week, you’ll have plenty of scope to undertake your other activities.
So, if you’re ready to step into a meaningful role where you’ll be making a difference every day, we want to hear from you.
What you will bring…
To be considered as our Sighted Assistant, you will need:
- Experience of note taking and proofreading
- Experience using databases and collating and presenting information in a variety of formats
- Experience of supporting others
- A good understanding of disability and its impact
- Strong organisational skills
What you’ll be doing…
As our Sighted Assistant, you will provide crucial support to a blind or partially sighted Senior Policy Officer in fulfilling their duties related to developing policy for Acute and Mental Health.
Ensuring that the Senior Policy Officer has full access to the necessary resources, you will enable them to contribute effectively to our mission of ensuring safe, effective and high-quality care.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include helping the Senior Policy Officer review reports, prepare evidence and proofread content. You will also play an important role in adapting or amending documents to ensure accessibility and facilitate their access to training materials.
Additionally, you will:
- Support the officer in stakeholder engagement by attending meetings (including taking notes and identifying priorities)
- Assist with travel to various CQC offices and external events
Next steps…
If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.
We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or ****** orientation.
So, if you’d like to join us as a Sighted Assistant, please apply via the button shown.
Other organisations may call this role Support Assistant, Support Worker, Befriender, Administrative Assistant, Administration Officer, Administrator, Secretary, PA, Personal Assistant, or Administration Support Officer.
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