* Please study the Job Profile and provide examples of your work, or other activities which demonstrate your ability or aptitude to undertake the duties of the post, please include any other information that you feel is relevant to your application e.g. personal qualities, achievements at work, non-work related or voluntary work experience.
* Working within the care sector requires you to be flexible in your approach to meet service delivery. Can you describe a time when you had to rearrange your tasks and how you did this to ensure work was completed within timescale?
* South Lanarkshire Council are committed to delivering excellent customer service. Please describe how you would ascertain and manage client expectations, while still delivering excellent customer service.
* Please describe a time where you have used your communication and interpersonal skills to achieve success in a task.
* Can you give an example of why good communication skills would be important for an employee of South Lanarkshire Council?
* Please confirm if you already hold the SVQ in Social Care Level 2 or 3 or would you be working towards this?
The successful applicant will have experience in caring for older people, preferably within a day service, community-based outreach or residential setting and be familiar with all aspects of personal care.
You will require to be flexible, working within both building based and outreach services as required and be willing to undertake delegated tasks as part of a care staff team. You must also be committed to promoting service users' independence, rights, choices and individuality. As an employer, South Lanarkshire Council offer excellent conditions of service along with good training opportunities to enable you to secure a qualification in care. Ideally the successful candidate will hold an SVQ in Social Care Level 2 or 3 or an HNC in Social Care or be willing to work towards gaining these qualifications., Candidates should be able to detail any gaps in employment and provide a foreign police check where applicable for any periods living or working abroad., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.