Care Support Worker (Personal Assistant)

Enable Scotland; Lochgilphead; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic charity dedicated to improving lives! As a Care Support Worker, you will make a meaningful impact by assisting individuals with learning disabilities, helping them achieve their personal goals and enjoy everyday activities. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with diverse individuals, ensuring their safety and well-being while fostering a supportive environment. You will be part of a vibrant team that values commitment and compassion, making every day rewarding and fulfilling. If you're ready to make a difference and grow in your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Health Cash Plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Blue Light Card

Qualifications

• Commitment to supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• No prior experience in care is necessary; values and skills matter.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with personal care and daily activities.
• Encourage social engagement and community participation.

Skills

Personal Care Assistance

Positive Behaviour Support

Moving and Handling

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Education

No formal qualifications required

Tools

First Aid Training

Person Centred Approaches

Job description

Care Support Worker (Personal Assistant)

Location: Lochgilphead, PA31 8JS.
Salary: £12 per hour.
Contract: 30 hours per week, permanent.

Are you interested in working for an award-winning social care charity?

Personal Assistants (Support Workers) have the most important role within Enable by making a positive difference every day to the lives of the people we support. No two days are the same for our Personal Assistants, but what we can guarantee is that you will be supporting someone with a learning disability to achieve their goals and outcomes - whatever they may be!

Each person we support has different support needs, so your role as Support Worker may include assisting them with various aspects of personal care, moving and handling, or positive behavioural support while expanding their social networks and connections.

Enable creates a bespoke team around every individual we support, and our team of Personal Assistants work collaboratively to ensure the safety, wellbeing, and aspirations of the people we support are met.

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me

The people we support have many varied interests and hobbies and have many of the same dreams and aspirations as we do; they just too often do not get the opportunity to experience these same opportunities. A career with Enable is as rewarding as it is diverse. Personal Assistants at their best have the potential to truly bring out the best in the people we support.

Let us introduce you to Liza and Iona:

Liza and Iona share a house but are two very different ladies with very different interests.

Liza loves nothing more than enjoying a glass of wine or two at a social occasion. She is a lively, bubbly lady in her early 40s who enjoys company and a chat with everyone she meets. Liza enjoys getting out and about for a coffee and a walk around her local town. She also likes having day trips away. Liza is a regular at the local gym. Indoors, Liza loves music and has a very varied musical taste. Soaps and quiz shows are her viewing musts on the TV. Liza loves being supported to try out new recipes when she cooks. Liza receives support from 9 am to 8 pm every day.

Iona is a sports-mad lady in her mid-40s. She is an enthusiastic viewer of most sports when they are on TV, especially football and snooker. Iona also enjoys a competitive game of pool. She is a very busy lady with a lot of different activities in any given week. In her downtime, she loves to relax with her iPad. With a keen interest in photography, she loves to show people her latest pictures or any stories that catch her eye. Colouring in and reading her papers are also ways Iona likes to relax.

Sadly, it's not always possible for Liza and Iona to enjoy what many people would consider these "simple pleasures" without proper dedicated support. That is why Liza and Iona need you! Will you bring your best so that Liza and Iona can live their best life?

About You

If you think you share the same interests and have the commitment, dedication, and above all, desire to support Liza and Iona to get the most out of life; then please apply now!

Enable needs you and your values to help us create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

You don't need experience in care to start your social care career with Enable. We recruit people based on their values and transferable skills. Wherever your journey has taken you up until now, join us, and together we will forge a new path in what could potentially be the most rewarding role you have ever had!

About Us

Enable is a dynamic and vibrant organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities, and we are looking for motivated and driven individuals to join us in ensuring they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

We believe in developing all our staff, and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities. These include, but are not limited to:

1. Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
2. Introduction to autism
3. Epilepsy awareness
4. Moving and Handling
5. Adult support and protection
6. Child support and protection
7. First Aid
8. Positive Behaviour Support

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including, but not limited to:

1. Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
2. Employee Assistance Programme
3. Cycle to Work Scheme*
4. Season Ticket Loans*
5. Blue Light Card

Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity's mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer, and our recruitment, selection, and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills, and competencies required of the specific roles.

Note: The successful applicant will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 3 months of their start date.

*terms & conditions apply