Support Worker - Positive Steps - EDN30608

Job Description

Support Worker
Positive Steps

Salary: £25,322 - £27,727
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join Positive Steps Support service in the role of Support Worker. Positive Steps is a short-term mental health visiting support service registered with the Care Inspectorate. The service is open 365 days a year with staff working on a rolling rota shift pattern. There will be an additional working time payment to reflect shift working.

The post holder will be required to participate in the delivery of a responsive and needs-led service. Promote effective multi-disciplinary working with other disciplines aimed at providing a good level of support to service users.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more outwith the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring our behaviours of respect, integrity and flexibility into your ways of working.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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