Contract: Permanent
Use Your Skills In a Career That Care
Locations: Dundee
Service Name: Dundee Service
Type of service: Learning Disabilities
Job Type: Lead Practitioner
Hours of work: Full Time and/or Part Time
Salary: £25,326 - £28,394
Job Description
Post: Lead Practitioner
Service: Dundee
Based: Within Dundee
Hours: Full Time & Part Time
Salary: £25,326 - £28,394 (£13.16 - £14.76 per hour)
Contract: Permanent
At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Lead Practitioners to support a young man to live in his own home, encouraging him to fulfil his life with exciting and fun activities, pursue his hobbies and passions & creating memorable experiences. Embark on a rewarding journey and apply today!
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a Lead Practitioner, unlike other support roles, with Turning Point Scotland, no two days are the same!
Our Lead Practitioner Role Will Include:
* Helping to provide individualised support to a young man with a wide range of needs while working in a team environment.
* Supporting the person within the community and engaging with their hobbies and interests & empowering him to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.
* Attending various community groups and accompanying him to activities he enjoys; he has his own car, so being able to drive would be an advantage.
* Assisting with personal care, ensuring his comfort and all areas of wellbeing.
* Celebrating achievements and milestones, both big and small, to create a rewarding and positive environment.
About You
You will have a genuine commitment to using your skills to support people to live their best lives. You will be supported by an incredibly approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. You will have flexibility to work on a rota.
A level of previous working experience in care is needed, and in addition, full training will be provided to you. We believe the experience you have is further enhanced by having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion, and integrity in order to join our team!
About Us – Dundee
Turning Point Scotland‘s Dundee service provides support to individuals with a variety of support needs including learning disability, physical disability, autism, mental health illness, and community justice. We provide supported living services, housing support, and day opportunities to promote independence and choice to individuals in order to enable them to access everyday life experiences including education, employment, and social activities. We will provide support with developing relationships and maintaining a home. We work in partnership with service users, their families, health teams, social work teams, and advocacy.
Where there is a requirement for sleepover shifts, you will receive, on top of your £12.19 p/h, an additional £96.00 for every sleepover shift you work!
If you are dedicated, compassionate, and enthusiastic about making a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults, we would love to hear from you. Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity.
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies. Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
We value lived experience.
Benefits package:
* Comprehensive Induction
* 123 Learning and development courses
* 29 eLearning courses
* Funded qualification – SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work-based assessment
* Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
* Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
* Wide range of family-friendly policies
* 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
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