Location: Wastview Care Centre Walls Shetland, ZE2 9PF
Rate: £19.40 - £20.12 per hour
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Part Time
Hours: 35 hours per week
Community Care Resources provides support to adults over the age of 16 years who have assessed needs. The majority of people who use our services (individuals) are older adults who require support to continue to live independently in their own homes, attend Day Support or require 24-hour care in a residential care setting.
Social Care Workers Practitioner are responsible for providing person-centred care to individuals in their own home and within residential care centres to enable them to achieve their goals and identified priorities. The Social Care Worker Practitioner’s role includes ensuring that individuals receive high standards of intimate personal care and social activities, other meaningful activity in accordance with their identified needs and wishes and helping to retain their level of independence and dignity. This includes rehabilitation and providing development opportunities in order to develop and meet the needs of individuals, whilst supporting them, as far as possible, to avoid danger and harm.
Additional Information
* The grade of this post is I
* Rate of pay shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £1.4202 per hour
* Permanent Part Time post for 35.0 Hours per Week, 52.18 weeks per year
* 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) when they begin in post
* A relocation package does not apply to this post
* We will pay interview expenses from within Shetland
* We are happy to talk flexible working
This post is based at Wastview Care Services, Walls, Shetland.
For further details relating to this post, please contact: Sylvia Goodlad, Senior Social Care Worker Supervisor on 01595 745289 or e-mail sylvia.goodlad@shetland.gov.uk
If you have a disability which prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.
If you’re a kind, compassionate person who’d like to make a difference to people’s lives, then social care could be the right career for you.
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