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Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive difference in 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, 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!
What we do:
The Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support is a key part of the Intermediate Care Team, a service delivered jointly by NHS Shetland and Shetland Islands Council (SIC). The team includes a Nurse Team Manager, Occupational Therapists, a Social Care Worker Practitioner - Rehabilitation Support, and Social Care Workers - Rehabilitation Support. Referrals into the team are made via a professional involved in the individual's care, such as social work staff, a GP, community nurse, or physiotherapist.
The Intermediate Care Team provides a short-term support and reablement service to increase an individual's independence, reduce their stay in hospital or a care home, and help avoid unnecessary hospital stays. The team supports the Service User to identify achievable and realistic (SMART) goals and provides the support needed to work towards those goals. The team also provides a Community Multifactorial Falls Risk Screening service.
What you'll be doing:
As a Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support, you will actively participate with the multidisciplinary team, service users, and their families/carers in a team approach to planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of service user rehabilitation in various settings, including their own homes.
More detail is provided in the Job Profile, Person Specification, and Conditions of Service Summary attached to the bottom of this advert.
Additional Information
What's in it for you? Following a review of responsibilities and rewards for social care worker roles across Council services, an uplift in salary was recognized. 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
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 demonstrate this by:
* Providing an excellent level of service by understanding, meeting, and managing 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.
* The grade of this post is H.
* Salary shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £2,742 per annum (pro rata).
* Temporary Full Time post for 37.0 Hours per Week, 52.18 weeks per year. Temporary contract for approximately 12 months.
* 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.
* The successful candidate will have to complete registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 6 months of the agreed start date.
* A relocation package does not apply to this post.
* We will pay interview expenses from within Shetland.
* A full driving licence is essential for this role.
* We are happy to talk flexible working.
During the application process, you are required to provide the names of two persons not related to you, who we can contact to provide a reference to support your application.
This post is based at the Independent Living Centre, Lerwick, Shetland.
For further details relating to this post, please contact: Sharon Henderson, Team Leader, telephone on 01595 744353 or email Sharon.Henderson@shetland.gov.uk
If you have a disability that prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.
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