Job title: Support Worker (Edinburgh Young Persons' Service)
Location: This post is based at LinkLiving's Edinburgh office.
Hours of Work: 37.5 per week (Working flexibly to meet the needs of the service, mainly Monday to Friday 9-5 with occasional evening and weekend working)
Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working?
You don't need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share our values, this could be the role for you!
At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including how we recruit our staff. It is important for us to find people who share our values, which are:
1. Empathy: listen to and understand an individual's needs and circumstances
2. Respect: treat others the way they wish to be treated
3. Integrity: be honest and have strong moral principles
4. Caring: show kindness and concern for others
LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives.
The Service:
Our Edinburgh Young Persons' Service provides visiting housing support and supported accommodation to people between 16 and 25 years old who live in Edinburgh. We support young people who have been in care, experienced homelessness, trauma or any disadvantage to overcome the challenges they may face whilst helping them to achieve their own individual goals and shape their lives for a more positive future. This can involve finding a suitable home, learning the skills to manage it as well as possible, working through life challenges, trying new things, and learning to see the best in themselves and fulfil their unique potential.
The Job:
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and motivated Support Worker to join our team and improve the lives of people supported by our Edinburgh Young Persons' Service. In this role, you will be supported to work using a person-centred and trauma-informed approach and develop effective relationships with young people affected by a range of problems, supporting them to cope in difficult times and working towards a good life. You will provide emotional, practical and social support to enable people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives. You will be responsible for managing your caseload independently and working flexibly around people's individual needs.
For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please refer to the Job Specification in the Job information Pack above.
What's in it for you?
The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:
1. Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards, subject to terms of the scheme
2. 35 days' holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 years' service
3. Opportunity to buy and sell holiday
4. Enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
5. Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
6. Funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
7. Defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
8. Access to an Electric vehicle leasing scheme, subject to the terms of the scheme
9. Life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
10. Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
11. Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
12. Annual flu vaccination
13. Access to a savings and borrowing scheme
14. Cycle to work scheme
15. Monthly bus pass scheme
16. Season/travel ticket loan and much more!
Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within 3 months of their start date and be registered within 6 months. This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.
Further Information:
Interested? If you have any questions about the role, please email jobs@linkhaltd.co.uk and we can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat. To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit our website at https://www.linkliving.org.uk.
If you're thinking about working in adult social care, download the Guide to adult social care jobs in Scotland for in-depth information on everything you need to know to get started.
Applications will be evaluated as they are received, with candidates meeting the specifications being invited for interview.
How to Apply:
To complete an application form, please click on the Apply online button below. Instructions on how to complete the form are at the top of the page.
We can offer suitable alternative methods to apply if requested including although not exclusively; hard copy, Braille and audio. You can request these by emailing our Resourcing Team at jobs@linkhaltd.co.uk.
We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. Our offices are fully accessible to wheelchair users and, as a Disability Confident Leader, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
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