Residential Care Officer - Seaview

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Residential Care Officer
Various Locations

Salary: £32,010 - £37,626 (pro-rata for part time)
Hours: 36 per week although part-time options also available

You will work with Children/Young People affected with Disability within a Short Breaks Service. You will be required to carry out personal care, behaviour strategies and engage our young people in a variety of tasks and activities.

Experience required;

• Qualification held must fully meet the SSSC requirement for Unconditional Registration. The sole exception to this is for candidates who have achieved the necessary practice qualification (e.g. HNC in Social services) and have only the optional SVQIII modules to be completed to be awarded the SVQIII Social Services (Children and Young People) SCQF Level 7.
• Applicants must be eligible and prepared to register with the Scottish Social Services Council as a Residential Child Care Work

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

We are currently undergoing a Children Service Review which may effect this post.

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