Enhanced Support Worker

Cosgrove Care is a vibrant Scottish charity with a strong vision and commitment to delivering the very best support for children, young people, and adults with a range of needs. We are friendly, ambitious, and innovative in our approach, helping the people we support to live their best lives.

As part of our Supported Living services, we provide 24-hour, day-to-day support tailored to each individual’s needs. Our dedicated team works closely with people to promote independence, dignity, and choice, while always ensuring safety and well-being. We focus on enabling people to enjoy meaningful lives, take part in activities they value, and feel included in their communities.

We are seeking calm and emotionally aware and resilient support workers who can support a young woman with a range of support needs to live independently in her own home, maintain relationships with her family and access community activities she currently enjoys, but to identify new activities where she could develop friendships and connections with others.

A little bit about Francis, who you will be supporting.

Francis enjoys cinema, gym and all things technology. She requires support on a 2:1 basis, so it is important that her support workers can communicate and collaborate well within a team and can remain calm and consistent in periods where things get tough for her.

About the Role

You will be supporting Francis to live a fulfilling and meaningful life, with dignity, safety, and respect at the heart of everything you do. Your role will include:

• Providing consistent and adaptable support across all aspects of daily living including assistance with personal care.

• Encouraging positive behaviour and safe risk-taking through a calm, proactive approach.

• Supporting communication needs with patience, empathy, and creativity.

• Working collaboratively and innovatively as part of a support team to achieve a consistent approach.

• Encouraging, participating in and risk assessing new activities to ensure positive social inclusion and positive outcomes.

• Working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues to keep Francis at the centre of decisions and planning to support her to have the best life.

About You

We are looking for someone who is:

• Adaptable, empathetic, attentive and confident person.

• A good communicator who can respond to both verbal and non-verbal communication.

• Patient, calm under pressure, and able to work positively in challenging situations.

• Fun, friendly, outgoing, with a good sense of humour.

• Proactive and reflective, always keen to learn and improve support.

• We are looking for compassionate staff who place dignity, respect, and person-centred support at the heart of everything they do.

Essential Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of experience in care/support work

• Full UK driving licence (Preferred but not essential)

• Experience of working with behaviour that challenges us and ASD (additional training will be provided)

What We Offer

• £14.79 per hour

• Paid training & induction programme including PBS and CPI

• A shift pattern that maximises your time off and annual leave.

• Continued support and career development.

If you are caring, reliable, and enjoy bringing positivity and fun into your work, we would love to hear from you!