All Locations
Mid Essex - Chelmsford
Position
Sensory - Guide
Salary Details:
£12.50 per hour
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Sensory

About The Role

Salary: £12.50 per hour (£15 per hour if BSL Qualified), plus 45p per mile 
Location: Chelmsford and covering North Essex 
Hours: 16 hours per week, Monday to Friday 
Contract: Permanent
 
Are you looking for a role that will make a help maintain someone's independence and make real difference to their life?
 
ECL Sensory Service are seeking caring people to join their team of Communicator Guides whose role is to support people with sight, hearing and dual sensory loss in the community.
 
The successful candidate will need to be available four of the five days (Monday to Friday) and be flexible with the hours they are available to work, to meet customer needs. 
 
Closing date - 30th November 2025

About You

What you’ll be doing as a Sensory Communicator Guide:
  • Working with people who have sight, hearing or dual sensory impairments.
  • Supporting people to maintain independence, access services such as health appointments and improve quality of life.
  • 1-1 support in the community across Essex and in hospital appointments across the region.
  • Activities could include assisting with a shopping, finance or correspondence, accessing sports and leisure facilities or hospital appointments.
 
To be considered as Sensory Communicator Guide, you need:
  • Have previous care experience (paid or unpaid)
    • A full driving licence.
    • Access to a car to travel and transport customers.
    • To be a confident driver.
    •  To be able to work on your own initiative out in the community as well as be able to fit in as part of an expanding team.
    • Enjoy working with people and are keen to enable independence.
    • Undertake induction training and Communicator Guide training.
    •  British Sign Language (BSL) skills and/or qualifications would be advantageous to your application.
What we can offer you as Sensory support worker:
 
  • £500 new starter bonus*
  • 45p paid per mile tax-free
  • Up to 32 days annual leave a year (inclusive of bank holidays)
  • Fully paid induction and training with ongoing support
  • Career development opportunities with access to paid for qualifications
  • Annual salary reviews
  • Annual performance-related bonus
  • Enhanced DBS and renewals paid for by ECL
  • Company pension - Enhanced contributory NEST scheme - we contribute up to 6%
  • Healthcare support scheme via Healthshield paid for by ECL
  • Employee Loyalty Scheme with long service awards
  • Enhanced employee referral program - earn up to £1500 for referring a friend
  • Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7
  • Access to Blue Light Card
  • Mental health first aiders in every service
  • Reimbursement of professional membership related to your role

Take the next step in your career and become a Sensory Communicator Guide with the ECL Sensory team

If you are interested in applying or would like to find out more please contact Fiona Young on 07928 678652 or [email protected].
 

About Us

At ECL, we offer care and support to thousands of people to live safely and independently within their own homes and local communities in South East England. We provide high quality social care services in Essex, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and West Sussex aimed at wellbeing, prevention and increasing independence.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitable candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme which helps to employ, support and promote disabled people in the workplace.

Please note that while ECL does hold a visa sponsor licence, we do not currently accept direct applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Instead, we work with a designated third-party provider to support sponsorship arrangements. Therefore, applicants who do not already have the right to work in the UK and/or require visa sponsorship to continue working in the UK cannot be considered for this role through direct application.

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