Looking for a job that not only offers you a career, but a role that’s packed full of laughter satisfaction? If you share our values and live in or around Dalry, this could be the role for you!!
Role
As a Support Practitioner, you will support day‑to‑day personal needs including meal planning, cooking, housework, support to appointments and prompting with personal care and medication. We are looking for people who will be enthusiastic about participating and supporting with hobbies and interests including meeting with friends, trips to the cinema and theatre as well as attending plenty tribute nights in the local area. Our aim is to enable the people we support to live a fulfilling and valued life, where they can achieve their own personal goals and aspirations. You will participate in the planning and delivery of this person‑centred care and encourage the people we support to express their views and wishes. With your help we will enable the people we support to play an active role within their local communities.
Due to the needs of the service, you will need a full UK manual driver licence with 1 year’s experience on the roads.
Qualifications
* Great communication skills.
* Able to think outside the box.
* Caring attitude and approach.
* Positive approach to learning.
* Able to follow guidelines.
* Confidence in the use of technology.
* You don’t need experience or qualifications to start your career with us; we recruit on values and transferrable skills.
* The Training Academy will give you all the skills you’ll need. We pay you for your training and will fund your SVQ (SCQF level 6/7) qualification and yearly SSSC registration fees.
Shift Patterns
We provide flexible, person‑led services that run twenty‑four hours a day, seven days a week, which include mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends and public holidays and on a rota basis. So you will need to be flexible.
Benefits
* Meaningful job doing things that you enjoy – it often doesn’t feel like work.
* Your job actually changes and improves lives – you’ll make a difference in your local community.
* Culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork.
* No uniform – we wear our own casual clothes.
* We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons.
* We reimburse your yearly SSSC registration fees.
* Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy.
* Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities.
* Recommend a colleague bonus scheme.
* Long service awards.
* Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline.
* 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays.
* Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave.
* Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping.
Sound interesting? What are you waiting for? Apply today, we can’t wait to hear from you!
Have any questions? If you’d like to find out more, please contact Stuart Wardrop on 01294 447240.
We are looking to fill this vacancy as soon as possible and reserve the right to close this advert early if we find a suitable candidate before our closing date. Please apply early to avoid any disappointment.
Successful candidates will be invited forward for interview at our service in Dalry on the week commencing 1st June.
Please note – if you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre‑employment checks.
Successful candidates will be required to join the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme and be committed to working towards an SVQ in Social Services and Healthcare with the support from our Training Academy. We will need you to register with the SSSC within 3 months of starting your employment with us.
Cornerstone welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively seeks to increase the diversity of our workforce.
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