Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support

Shetland Islands Council; Lerwick; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading local council in Scotland is seeking a compassionate and patient Social Care Worker for a temporary part-time post. This role, pivotal to the Intermediate Care Team, involves supporting individuals in their homes and aiding in their rehabilitation efforts. Successful candidates will enjoy a supportive environment, competitive pay, and benefits, making it a fulfilling opportunity for those looking to make a real difference.

Benefits

Excellent Salary and Conditions

Distant islands allowance

Local Government Pension scheme

Flexible working and family friendly policies

Excellent training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have a full driving licence.
• Required to complete registration with the SSSC within 6 months of the start date.
• Preferred candidates may need to join the PVG Scheme.

Responsibilities

• Participate with the multidisciplinary team to plan and implement service user rehabilitation.
• Support individuals to achieve their goals and increase independence.
• Assist in providing a short-term support service to reduce hospital stays.

Skills

Kindness

Compassion

Patience

Listening skills

Job description

Location: Independent Living Centre Gremista, ZE1 0XY

Rate: £17.61 - £18.11 per hour

Contract Type: Temporary

Position Type: Part Time

Hours: 22.5 hours per week

Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support

‘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!

What we do:

The Social Care Worker – Rehabilitation Support is a key part of the Intermediate Care Team. The Intermediate Care Team is a service delivered jointly by NHS Shetland and Shetland Islands Council (SIC). The team is made up of: a Nurse Team Manager, Occupational Therapists, a Social Care Worker Practitioner – Rehabilitation Support and Social Care Workers – Rehabilitation Support. Referrals into the team are made via a professional involved in the individuals care, for example, social work staff, a GP, Community nurse, or Physiotherapist.

The Intermediate Care Team provides a short term support and reablement service to increase an individual’s independence, reduce their stay in hospital or in a care home, and help avoid an unnecessary hospital stay. The team supports the Service User to identify achievable and realistic (SMART) goals and provides the support an individual needs to work towards those goals. The team also provides a Community Multifactorial Falls Risk Screening service.

What you'll do be doing:

As a Social Care Worker – Rehabilitation Support you will actively participate with the multidisciplinary team, service user and their families/carers, in a team approach to planning, development, implementation and evaluation of service user rehabilitation, in a variety of settings, including their own homes.

More detail is provided in the Job Profile, Person Specification and Conditions of Service Summary attached to the bottom of this advert.

Additional Information

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 undertakingvaluable work in more than one way! Your benefit package includes:

• Excellent Salary and Conditions
• Distant islands allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• A varied and interesting workload
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Various other employee benefits

Do you share our values?

In Shetland Islands Council,Excellent serviceis at the heart of everything we do. We provideexcellent servicebytaking personal responsibilityandworking well together.

It is important that you share our values and would demonstrate this by:

• Providing an excellent level of service, by making sure you understand, meet and manage our service users’ needs.
• Working in an open and honest way, reflecting on your performance and looking for opportunities to improve and develop.
• Having a positive attitude by being open-minded, fair, respectful, trustworthy and honest.
• Taking your responsibilities as an employee of the council seriously.
• The grade of this post is H
• Rate of pay shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £1.4808 per hour
• Temporary Part Time post for 22.5 Hours per Week , 52.18 weeks per year.
• Temporary contract for a period of approximately 12 months. This is for the duration of a period of maternity leave, and will terminate following the return to work or resignation of the postholder.
• Preferred candidates will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update prior to a formal offer of employment being made
• The successful candidate will have to complete registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 6 months of the agreed start date
• A relocation package does not apply to this post
• We will pay interview expenses from within Shetland
• A full driving licence is essential for this role
• We are happy to talk flexible working
• Open to internal applicants only
• Good secondment opportunity for internal candidates

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 Independent Living Centre, Lerwick, Shetland.

For further details relating to this post, please contact: Sharon Henderson, Team Leader, telephone on 01595745315 or email [e-mail]

If you have a disability which prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.