Mobile Community Responder Green Team

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Mobile Community Responder

Various locations

30 hours per week

Permanent

£37,473 - £38,250 pro rata

£19.42 – £19.83 per hour

The above amounts include shift and Distant Islands Allowance.

You will be reporting to Dawn Collins, Responder Service Coordinator.

Your working pattern is 30 hours per week over a 7-day rolling rota. We are happy to talk flexible working, where possible.

The purpose of this role is to work as part of a team to provide a Community Care Alarm Responder service to individuals living in the communities of Orkney. Assisting individuals to remain at home as independently as possible and deliver services, in line with the principles of the Health and Social Care Standards.

Within the Responder service there are two different teams, the Red Team and the Green Team. The Red Team work three shifts including nights and the Green team work two shifts with no nightshift but a midnight finish time. The main difference between them is that the Green Team also helps to provide short-term support to individuals following discharge from hospital and delivery of support to prevent hospital admissions.

You will have the ability to treat people with dignity, respect and compassion and ensure people are included in and supported to make decisions for themselves.

You will have good written and verbal communication skills and show a basic understanding of health and safety for yourself and others including risk assessment.

The necessary qualification, experience and skills required for this role are detailed in the ‘must have’ section of the attached job profile. These criteria are used for decisions on shortlisting and appointment of applicants.

This post involves a contractual requirement to:

• work unsocial hours on a rota, click here for Unsocial Hours Information.

This post is a regulated role with adults and requires Level 2 Disclosure with PVG scheme membership.

Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday 31 May 2026.

For a discussion about the role, contact Tracy Breck at tracy.breck@orkney.gov.uk or on 873535 ext. 2651.

For information on applying and our recruitment process, click here for Information for Applicants.

We would welcome your feedback on our recruitment process.