Personal Assistant for Jordan

ENABLE Scotland; East Kilbride; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Health cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work

Season Ticket Loans

Blue Light Card

Job summary

ENABLE Scotland is seeking Personal Assistants to support individuals with learning disabilities to live independently and participate in their communities. You will help with daily routines, personal care, and community activities, guided by person-centred plans and safeguarding principles.

Join our team for rewarding work that promotes wellbeing, safety and inclusion, with access to training, development opportunities, and a supportive workplace environment.

Qualifications

• Person-centred approaches and planning.
• Autism awareness and related support techniques.
• Epilepsy awareness and safeguarding knowledge.
• First Aid knowledge and basic safety awareness.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals to achieve their goals and daily routines.
• Assist with personal care, mobility and moving-and-handling as required.
• Help individuals access their local community and social activities.
• Maintain safety, wellbeing, and dignity; follow individual care plans.

Skills

Person Centred

Autism Awareness

Epilepsy Awareness

First Aid

Job description

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 who requires support to achieve their goals and outcomes – whatever they may be!

Each person we support has different support requirements, so your support worker role may include assisting them with various aspects of personal care, moving and handling or positive behavioural support whilst 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. So whatever your interests are; be it sewing, baking, having a cup of tea and chat to horse riding, swimming or hill-walking, we want to hear from you!

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 Jordan :

Jordan is a young man who is in his early 20's, he has moved around a lot and now settled back in his local area, Jordan enjoys technology and WWE, he sees the world differently and requires routines and boundaries to feel safe. Jordan will be working towards accessing his local community again and at the moment likes to watch you tube and spend time researching topics that he enjoys, Jordan can communicate verbally his choices and his team of personal assistants would support him to ensure that he is making good choices and only requires prompts to ensure that he is managing his daily life in a structured way. Over time Jordan would benefit from developing life skills to allow him to live as independently as possible within his new home.

That is why Jordan needs you! Will you bring your best so that Jordan can live his best life?

About Us

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:

• Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
• Introduction to autism
• Epilepsy awareness
• Moving and Handling
• Adult support and protection
• Child support and protection
• First Aid
• Positive Behaviour Support

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

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

Where required, Enable will fully fund SVQ Health and Social Care qualifications – required for SSSC registration

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.

The cost of PVG is paid upfront by the organisation and deducted from your wage if successfully appointed.

Enable reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

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