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Social Care Worker - Rehabilitation Support

‘Are you looking for an opportunity to make a positive difference to someone’s life?’

Can you show us how you would treat the people we support, with the dignity and respect they deserve? Are you kind, caring and compassionate and a good listener who is patient?

If caring comes naturally to you and you find reward in supporting people, this could be the perfect job for you!

What we do:

The Social Care Worker – Rehabilitation Support is a key part of the Intermediate Care Team. The Intermediate Care Team is a service delivered jointly by NHS Shetland and Shetland Islands Council (SIC). The team is made up of: a Nurse Team Manager, Occupational Therapists, a Social Care Worker Practitioner – Rehabilitation Support and Social Care Workers – Rehabilitation Support. Referrals into the team are made via a professional involved in the individuals care, for example, social work staff, a GP, Community nurse, or Physiotherapist.

The Intermediate Care Team provides a short term support and reablement service to increase an individual’s independence, reduce their stay in hospital or in a care home, and help avoid an unnecessary hospital stay. The team supports the Service User to identify achievable and realistic (SMART) goals and provides the support an individual needs to work towards those goals. The team also provides a Community Multifactorial Falls Risk Screening service.

What you'll do be doing:

As a Social Care Worker – Rehabilitation Support you will actively participate with the multidisciplinary team, service user and their families/carers, in a team approach to planning, development, implementation and evaluation of service user rehabilitation, in a variety of settings, including their own homes.

More detail is provided in the Job Profile, Person Specification and Conditions of Service Summary attached to the bottom of this advert.

Additional Information

What’s in it for you? Following a review of responsibilities and reward for social care worker roles across Council services, it was recognised that an uplift in salary was required. In this respect, you’ll be undertaking valuable work in more than one way! Your benefit package includes:

Excellent Salary and Conditions
Distant islands allowance
Generous holiday allowance
Local Government Pension scheme
Flexible working and family friendly policies
A varied and interesting workload
Excellent training and development opportunities
Various other employee benefits

Do you share our values?

In Shetland Islands Council, Excellent service is at the heart of everything we do. We provide excellent service by taking personal responsibility and working well together.

It is important that you share our values and would demonstrate this by:

Providing an excellent level of service, by making sure you understand, meet and manage our service users’ needs.
Working in an open and honest way, reflecting on your performance and looking for opportunities to improve and develop.
Having a positive attitude by being open-minded, fair, respectful, trustworthy and honest.
Taking your responsibilities as an employee of the council seriously.

The grade of this post is H
Salary shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £2,742 per annum (pro rata)
Temporary Full Time post for 37.0 Hours per Week , 52.18 weeks per year. Temporary contract for a period of approximately 12 months. This is for the duration of a period of maternity leave, and will terminate following the return to work or resignation of the postholder.
Preferred candidates will be required to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update prior to a formal offer of employment being made
The successful candidate will have to complete registration with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 6 months of the agreed start date
A relocation package does not apply to this post
We will pay interview expenses from within Shetland
You must have the ability to travel throughout Shetland at short notice and where public transport is limited
We are happy to talk flexible working

During the application process you are required to give the names of two persons not related to you, who we can contact to provide a reference to support your application.

This post is based at Independent Living Centre, Lerwick, Shetland.

For further details relating to this post, please contact: Sharon Henderson, Team Leader, telephone on 01595 744353 or email Sharon.Henderson@shetland.gov.uk

If you have a disability which prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.