Personal Assistant in Kirkwall

Kirkwall

Full or Part Time including flexible working

Are you interested in working for an award winning social care charity?

Personal Assistants (Support Workers) have the most important role within Enable by making a positive difference every day to the lives of the people we support. No two days are the same for our Personal Assistants but what we can guarantee is that you will be supporting someone with a learning disability to achieve their goals and outcomes – whatever they may be!

Each person we support has different support needs, so your role as Support Worker may include assisting them with various aspects of personal care, moving and handling or positive behavioural support whilst expanding their social networks and connections.

Enable creates a bespoke team around every individual we support, and our team of Personal Assistants work collaboratively to ensure the safety, wellbeing and aspirations of the people we support are met.

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me

The people we support have many varied interests and hobbies and have many of the same dreams and aspirations as we do; they just too often do not get the opportunity to experience these same opportunities. A career with Enable is as rewarding as it is diverse, Personal Assistants at their best have the potential to truly bring out the best in the people we support.

We are currently looking for personal assistants on a Full time, Part time and Sessional basis.

Enable can offer a variety of different hours-based contracts or a sessional based contract. We have a variety of services that provide different shift times, these can be flexibility around school hours and other commitments. We person match our staff to the people we support based on values and similar interests.

Our current shift times vary to meet the needs of the service, but these can range from short shift during the day to a 15-hour day with a pay by hour sleepover and are spread across a 7-day week. Sleepovers are paid at £12 per hour.

We have a variety of different shift options available. We have shorter shifts that fit around school hours, longer day and night shifts as well as 24-hour services that offer a pay by hour sleepover.

We also have positions for sessional members of staff.

Enable offers full and on-going training, with no experience required! We also offer an in-depth induction process which helps to build positive relationships with the people we support!

The role of a personal assistant is supporting people from the comfort of their own homes in the community, our personal assistants regular support the people we support to enjoy take-away nights, baking, cooking, and catching up with films/tv shows. The people we support enjoy playing games, completing jigsaws and have a general natter to catch up on the local community. Personal assistants also support people out into the local community, attending local social events, visiting various restaurants and local cafes and have a browse around the shops. Our personal assistants also support with meet ups with friends and family as well as attending local groups and clubs such as swimming, walking football and many many others!

Enable offer a supportive team environment as well as being able to express on an individual basis by providing personalised support. We recruit based on values and transferable skills and bespoke match you with the supported individual based on this! We are looking for dedicated and motivated personal assistants within the local Orkney community.

If you think you share the same interests and have the commitment, dedication, and above all, desire to support individuals to get the most out of life and become an inclusive member of society; then please apply now!

About You

If you think you share the same interests and have the commitment, dedication, and above all, desire to support people in the local community to get the most out of life; then please apply now!

Enable needs you and your values to help us create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

You don’t need experience in care to start your social care career with Enable. We recruit people based on their values and transferrable skills. Wherever your journey has taken you up until now, join us, and together we will forge a new path in what could potentially be the most rewarding role you have ever had!