Senior Support Worker – Peffer – Learning Disabilities and Neurodiversity
Permanent - Full Time
Closing Date: 30/04/2025
Summary
Salary: £13.75 per hour
Location: Edinburgh
Service: Learning Disability & Neurodiversity
Hours: 36 hours per week
Shifts: Various
Care Support Scotland
We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult homelessness and Older People services.
Why work with us?
We have the following benefits to help attract and retain the best talent, ensuring we provide high quality care to those we support, this includes:
* Death in benefit cover (2 times salary)
* Enhanced Sick Pay
* Fully funded qualifications
* Career development and progression opportunities
Who we are looking for:
We are looking for a hard working and experienced support worker who is interested in progressing in their career and taking on additional responsibilities, or a senior support worker looking to take on a new challenge. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about a career in social care who wants to gain valuable hands-on experience and enhance their skillset. Above all we want someone that shares in our values. Our mission is to provide positive, life changing support, delivered by inspiring, professional staff.
Role and Responsibilities:
* Apply your knowledge of best practice, codes of practice and current regulations in the social care sector and ensure the provision of a high quality and socially inclusive service
* Manage and co-produce support plans and contribute to support reviews
* Assist Service Managers and Team Leaders with service referrals and staff interviewing & selection procedures
* Take on the role of shift leader in the absence of the Service Manager
* Assist in managing a team of Support Workers by reviewing the delivery of support and ensure staff are following the correct policy and procedures.
Essential Skills and Attributes:
* SVQ3 in Social Care or willing to work towards
* Previous experience in a care setting
* Commitment to the practices of continuous improvement
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Ability (or willingness to learn) to create and adjust rotas as required
* Qualified to the level required by the SSSC with dual registration as a supervisor in housing support services and a care at home service, or willingness to work towards and to successfully complete qualification within the SSSC specified timeframe.
Desired Skills and Attributes:
* Experience in line managing staff in a care setting
About the Service:
We provide tenancy, emotional, and social support to young adults in their own homes in partnership with local authorities and housing associations. We also offer pre-tenancy support to individuals who require housing but are not quite ready to move in. We specialize in supporting neurodivergent individuals and those with learning disabilities, tailoring our approach to their specific communication, sensory, and routine-based needs.
We support individuals with their emotional, social and tenancy needs. Supporting them to access their local community, attend college, appointments, work, or voluntary experiences. We support a visiting support model, where we work closely with a local housing association to provide supported tenancies both furnished and unfurnished for young people who are transitioning into their first accommodation.
We also provide the same support through our outreach model, where individuals live in their own tenancies. Within our outreach programme, we support individuals who choose to self-manage their support needs through Self Directed Support.
Additional Notes:
Shift work, weekend work and sleepovers may be a requirement of this role, sleepovers attract an additional payment. Flexible working arrangements are also available. These can be discussed at your interview.
PVG scheme membership and SSSC registration are requirements of this post.
We are here to answer any questions you may have.
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