Social Care Workers - Supported Living - SIC09020

Shetland Islands Council; Lerwick; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Distant Islands Allowance

Generous holiday entitlement

LGPS

Job summary

Shetland Islands Council is seeking a compassionate Social Care Worker to support adults with learning disabilities or autism in living independently and engaging in meaningful activities. You will provide direct care and be part of a team committed to high standards of care and dignity.

Applicants should be patient, kind, and attentive, ready to travel across Shetland, and prepared to join PVG checks. The role offers a varied workload, training opportunities, and a supportive pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Direct support to individuals with learning disability or autism.
• Maintain high standards of care while promoting independence and dignity.
• Meet SSSC core values: Respect, Collaboration, Participation & Dignity, Empowerment.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to individuals in a variety of settings.
• Help individuals retain independence and dignity and achieve personal outcomes.
• Support people with varying abilities and complex needs in activities and daily living.
• Work as part of a team to deliver high-quality care, including personal care and meaningful activities.

Skills

Empathy

Active listening

Respect

Teamwork

Job description

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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!

Adult Services - what we do:

The people who use our services (individuals) have additional support needs associated with learning disability or autism and require support to continue to live independently in their own homes, to attend Day Support and meaningful activity or have short break respite.

What you'll be doing:

As a Social Care Worker in Adult Services:

• You will be responsible for providing direct support to individuals in a variety of settings.
• You will play a key role ensuring that individuals receive high standards of care and support to help retain their potential level of independence and dignity throughout their lives.
• You will support people with varying abilities and complex needs, enabling them to achieve their goals, identified priorities and personal outcomes.
• You will work as part of a team to provide the highest quality of care. This may include; intimate personal care, developing daily living skills, training, social activities and other meaningful activity in accordance with their identified needs and wishes, whilst supporting individuals, as far as possible, to avoid danger and harm.
• You must evidence that you can demonstrate the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) core values of;

• Respect
• Collaboration,
• Participation & Dignity and Empowerment

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:

• Excellent Salary and Conditions
• Distant islands allowance
• Generous holiday 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

Additional Information

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:

• 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.

Social Care Workers shall provide care in a variety of settings including within the community. Therefore the worker will, in the majority of cases, be required to travel to undertake their duties. An ability to drive with a full driving licence is therefore highly desirable and may be essential depending on the demands of the service. The travel requirements of each post will be made clear through the recruitment & selection process.

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:

• Social Care careers in Shetland: here
• Living and working in Shetland: here
• The Shetland Islands Council: here

• The grade of this post is G/H
• Rate of pay shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £1.5523 per hour
• One part time established post for 7.25 hpw and one part time established post for 8.75 hpw, 52.18 weeks per year
• Preferred candidates will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made
• The successful candidate will have to complete registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) when they begin in post
• This vacancy does not meet Home Office rules for UK visa sponsorship. Please only apply if you do not require UK visa sponsorship
• A relocation package does not apply to this post
• We will pay interview expenses from within Shetland
• You must have the ability to travel throughout Shetland at short notice and where public transport is limited
• We are happy to talk flexible working

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.

For more information please contact: Duty Senior Social Worker - Email - [e-mail]

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