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Social Care Workers (Entry/Main) – Overtonlea Care Services - Community Care Resources

‘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!

No qualification? No Problem! Although experience and qualifications are always desirable, for Entry Grade Social Care Workers your personal values and attitude are the most important attributes. We are looking for thoughtful, caring and inspiring people to join our team!

Community Care Resources – what we do:

Community Care Resources provides a range of person centred services to adults with identified care needs through the provision of Day Care Services, Care at Home and Residential Services.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Social Care Worker in Community Care Resources:

You will be responsible for providing direct support to individuals in a variety of settings.
You will play a key role ensuring that individuals receive high standards of care and support to help maximise their independence and dignity throughout their lives.
You will support people with varying abilities and complex needs, enabling them to achieve their goals, identified priorities and personal outcomes.
You will work as part of a team to provide the highest quality of care. This may include; intimate personal care, developing daily living skills, training, social activities and other meaningful activity in accordance with individual needs and wishes, whilst supporting individuals, as far as possible, to avoid danger and harm.
You must evidence that you can demonstrate the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) core values of;

Respect
Collaboration,
Participation & Dignity and Empowerment

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

Additional Information

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.

Social Care Workers shall provide care in a variety of settings including within the community. Therefore the worker will, in the majority of cases, be required to travel to undertake their duties. An ability to drive with a full driving licence is therefore highly desirable and may be essential depending on the demands of the service. The travel requirements of each post will be made clear through the recruitment & selection process.

Above all else we’re looking for someone who’s compassionate, respectful, empathetic and honest, with a values and integrity to make a very real and positive difference to the people we support.

For further details relating to this post, please contact: Helen Jamieson, Senior Social Care Worker Supervisor on 01595 745045 or e-mail helen.jamieson@shetland.gov.uk

Find out more about:

Social Care careers in Shetland: here
Values for a career in Social Care: here
Living and working in Shetland: here
The Shetland Islands Council: here

The grade of this post is G or H
This post is not career graded - your salary placement will depend on your experience and qualifications
Rate of pay shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £1.4202 per hour
Various Permanent hours available. 109 hours per week vacant, with a variety of contractual hours which can be discussed during interview
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
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 Overtonlea Care Services, Levenwick, Shetland

For further details relating to this post, please contact: Helen Jamieson, Senior Social Care Worker Supervisor on 01595 745045 or e-mail helen.jamieson@shetland.gov.uk

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