Support Worker - Annaty

Capability Scotland; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization in Perth is seeking a Support Worker to assist individuals with complex disabilities. The ideal candidate will have social care experience and will help with personal care, medication, and day-to-day activities. This role offers a generous salary of £24,307.66 pa-FTE, a nightshift premium, alongside various employee benefits, including qualifications and holidays. This is a unique opportunity to positively impact the lives of our customers while joining a dedicated team.

Benefits

Generous salary

Nightshift premium

Fully funded SVQ qualification

32 days' holidays per year

Pension contribution

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Social care experience is essential.
• Drivers preferred but not necessary.
• Some vacancies available only to female candidates due to customer choice for intimate care.

Responsibilities

• Support customers with personal care and activities.
• Assist with dressing, medication, and mealtimes.
• Engage in activities such as arts and crafts, games, and outings.

Skills

Social care experience

Ability to support personal care

Supporting activities

Job description

Can you help us with our ongoing mission?

At Capability Scotland, our mission is to deliver the highest quality services, tailored to the individual needs of disabled people. We work in partnership to create innovative solutions which enable our people to achieve their goals. We put our customers and learners at the heart of everything we do and will make sure their voices are heard loud and clear.

We love what we do here and are looking to recruit a team of Support Workers for our Annaty service based in Perth.

The role Support Worker

We support people with a variety of complex disabilities to live independently in our bright, spacious, purpose-built residential setting, with idyllic grounds and amazing facilities such as a hydrotherapy pool, rebound therapy and an accessible gym. Its an exciting time to join and help us shape our big plans for our brand new facilities, which are coming soon.

You will be supporting our customers on either one-to-one or group care; your day will include helping them with their personal care, dressing, medication, mealtimes and participating in their chosen activities for that day. These include arts and crafts, games days on campus or trips to the cinema, shopping, or football.

What you need to know :

Hours : 37 hours per week - Working a mix of day, back and night shifts.

Location : Annaty Service, Upper Springland Campus, Isla Road, Perth, PH2 7HQ.

Job Description :

Social care experience essential. Please refer to our careers page for roles which do not require experience.

Drivers preferred but not essential, whilst we welcome applications from drivers, we can consider non-drivers. If you do need to go out and about with our customer for that dinner and cinema trip, your costs are covered.

Due to customer choice for intimate care, some of these vacancies are only available to female candidates.

• Schedule 9 Part 1 (1)(1)(a) of the Equality Act 2010 applies (GOR)
• This role DOES NOT qualify for skilled worker shortage visa sponsorship

Capability Scotlands benefits :

• A generous salary of £24, 307.66 pa-FTE / £12.60 per hour
• A nightshift premium rate of £13.23 per hour
• We offer a fully funded SVQ a qualification which is yours for life.
• Most services offer, set 2, 3, 4 and 6 weeks rolling or monthly rotas so you always know when you are working and can plan life outside of work.
• 32 days' holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
• Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
• Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
• Up to 3 x annual salary death in service.
• Perks at Work shopping discount scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 24 / 7 employee assistance programme.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts

We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability.

Want to be part of this? Apply now

Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued, and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

A copy of Capability Scotlands Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, we advise that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply to work with us.

Please note that our vacancies do not qualify for Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship, if you require this to commit to this role long term, please do not apply . If we are in a position to offer sponsorship in the future our adverts will be updated to reflect this.