Support Worker - Junction 52

Capability Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Capability Scotland as a Support Worker where you will provide essential care and support to individuals with disabilities. You will engage in various health-related practices and contribute to a lively environment with therapeutic and recreational activities. Ideal candidates are energetic and experienced, dedicated to making a positive impact.

Benefits

Generous salary of £21,351.33 pa / £12.60 per hour

Fully funded SVQ qualification

32 days' holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service

Free PVG checks

Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

24/7 employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in a traditional day centre setting is preferred.
• Candidates should be outgoing and confident communicators.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and assist customers with their general welfare.
• Undertake a key working role with Team Leaders.
• Administer medication and perform care planning.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Initiative

Job description

We’re obsessed with providing the best possible care and support to people with disabilities. Are you?

Junction 52 is a day service where we support 51 customers on a daily basis to ensure that all health and emotional needs are met. We offer a wide range of therapeutic, educational, and recreational activities including our new digital hub which supports customers by providing access to new technologies such as VR, 3D Printing and immersive technologies with the aim of utilising them for new business.

About the Role

We are currently looking to recruit Support Workers to join our team on both permanent and relief bases to help provide a safe, caring environment for customers with disabilities. You will provide personal care, and assist customers with aspects of their general welfare. You will be required to undertake a key working role and work with the Team Leaders to provide the best possible service. The role will also involve health related practices including administration of medication, care planning and dynamic risk assessments.

Our fabulous service is one where we leave our inhibitions at the door, we dance, sing and enjoy hosting events, such as sports days, karaoke Friday and bingo chippy’s. This means candidates will need to be outgoing and confident communicators to help our customers thrive in this setting.

Ideally we are looking for candidates with experience in a traditional day centre setting, who are energetic and able to use their initiative.

Hours: 32.5 hours per week - Monday - Friday 8.45am - 4.15pm with occasional weekend work, supporting our customers with trips, outings and events.

We also have relief/bank positions available.

Driving licence preferred to enable you to escort our customers in our adapted vehicle.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• A generous salary of £21,351.33 pa / £12.60 per hour
• We offer a fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• 32 days' holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
• Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
• Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
• Up to 3 x annual salary death in service.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 24/7 employee assistance programme.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts

Applying to Capability Scotland

Applying to join our family is easy. At the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to our hiring service. You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date. We’ll invite successful candidates to an interview so we can learn more about what makes each other tick, in a safe and secure way. You can keep a track of your application in your profile management settings.

For more information on this role, you can call Lynn on 01418838880 using reference CS0306251

General Information

***Please note that our vacanciesdo not qualifyfor Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship, if you require this to commit to this role long term,please do not apply. If we are in a position to offer sponsorship in the future our adverts will be updated to reflect this***

Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued, and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, we advise that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply to work with us.

How to apply

To apply for this position, simply upload your covering letter and CV below. Please supply these as either a PDF or Word doc.

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