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An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Senior Social Care Worker to make a meaningful impact in the community. This role involves providing direct support to individuals, ensuring they receive high-quality care that promotes their independence and well-being. You'll be part of a dynamic team that values respect, collaboration, and empowerment. With a generous benefits package including excellent salary conditions and flexible working options, this position offers a fulfilling opportunity to contribute positively to people's lives in a supportive environment. If you're dedicated to making a difference, this could be the perfect fit for you.
Senior Social Care Worker - Community Care Resources
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive difference to someone's life?'
Can you show us how you would treat the people we support, with the dignity and respect they deserve? Are you kind, caring and compassionate and a good listener who is patient?
If caring comes naturally to you and you find reward in supporting people, this could be the perfect job for you!
Community Care Resources - what we do:
Community Care Resources provides a range of person centred services to adults with identified care needs through the provision of Day Care Services, Care at Home and Residential Services.
What you'll be doing:
Senior Social Care Worker - Supervisors are responsible for providing direct support to individuals in a variety of settings ensuring a high standard of service delivery of support to individuals to live well through their own strengths, skills, community, personal gifts and people who play a key role in their life.
The Senior Social Care Worker - Supervisor role includes ensuring that individuals receive high standards of care and support in accordance with relevant legislation and national guidance associated with the service.
You will be responsible for providing person-centred support and maintaining a positive ethos that promotes the individual's independence within their personal capabilities and outcomes.
You must evidence that you can demonstrate the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) core values of;
What's in it for you? Following a review of responsibilities and reward for social care worker roles across Council services, it was recognised that an uplift in salary was required. In this respect, you'll be undertaking valuable work in more than one way! Your benefit package includes:
Do you share our values?
In Shetland Islands Council, Excellent service is at the heart of everything we do. We provide excellent service by taking personal responsibility and working well together.
It is important that you share our values and would demonstrate this by:
Above all else we're looking for someone who's compassionate, respectful, empathetic and honest, with a values and integrity to make a very real and positive difference to the people we support.
Find out more about:
During the application process you are required to give the names of two persons not related to you, who we can contact to provide a reference to support your application.
This post is based at Overtonlea Care Services, Levenwick, Shetland.
Overtonlea Services also provides social care, domestic support and meals on wheels in the wider South Mainland Community setting along with a day support service open 4 days per week which enables vulnerable & frail members of the local community to remain as independent as possible, at home.
Our mission statement is:- To provide a high quality and person centred service to every individual using our locally provided care services
For further details relating to this post, please contact: Amanda Page, Team Leader, Telephone on 01595745032 or Amanda.Page@shetland.gov.uk
If you have a disability which prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.