Service Co-ordinator

Post: Service Co-ordinator

Service: North East Edinburgh Recovery Service (NEERS)

Based: Edinburgh (Leith, Craigmillar)

Hours: Full Time 37hrs

Salary: £34,484 - £37,566 (£17.92 - £19.53 per hour)

Contract: Permanent

Shape the future with TPS

Are you ready to take on your next challenge in a Career that Cares?

At Turning Point Scotland, we have an opportunity for a Service Coordinator to lead a team and help make a positive impact for people, supporting them on their recovery journey and building on their sense of belonging in society.

Embark on an emotionally rewarding journey and apply today!

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Service Coordinator with Turning Point Scotland where no two days are the same! This frontline management role will include:

• Being responsible for both directly undertaking initial and on-going assessments of people we support and of overseeing team members to do so.
• Providing informal and formal support, feedback, induction, engagement period reviews, appraisal and supervision to staff.
• Devising reviewing and updating support plans, record events and observations and keep appropriate records as required in the service both directly and managing staff to do so.
• Providing leadership to staff to support people in accordance with their support plan, the principals of citizenship and to maintain records correctly.
• Assisting the service manager to prepare information and the service for inspections/ audits or similar and to contribute to these processes.

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills and experience 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.

North East Edinburgh Recovery Hub

The North East Recovery Hub is a one-stop shop which offers a full range of drug and alcohol treatment and support services. We are a multi - disciplinary team comprising of Voluntary Sector TPS, NHS and social work staff. We are based with our main office in Leith, and a satellite location in Craigmillar.

We understand that everybody’s experience is different. When people come to the Hub, we personalise their care to achieve their goals.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

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