Your new opportunity
Renfrewshire SLI are spread across various locations within Paisley, Johnstone, Linwood, Renfrew, and Barrhead. The service supports adults with learning and physical disabilities to live in their own home in the community. As a support worker you will support individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with personal care and providing encouragement for the person you are supporting to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives. This will include keeping the people we support safe and engaging in meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and well-being.
Please note we manage shifts on a rotational basis where staff work a variety of shifts to meet the needs of the people we support and will include working weekends.
Above all we want Support Workers that shares in our values .
1. A commitment to excellence and being the best we can
2. Outcome focused - enabling people we support to achieve their goals
3. Showing dignity and respect to all people that you’ll be working with
4. Being open and honest to all those we support and work with.
What you will need to succeed/bring to the role
5. Compassion and kindness to support people in their day to day lives.
6. Enthusiasm and self-motivation.
7. Ability to apply transferable life experience and skills to support and enable individuals.
8. Excellent problem solver who is driven by positive outcomes.
9. Resilient, reliable and an excellent listener.
10. Good IT & communication skills.
11. A full driving license is desirable.
What you will get in return
12. Opportunity to gain SVQ qualifications via our SVQ accredited centre.
13. Generous holiday entitlement, 29 annual holiday days + 4 public holidays for support staff, rising to 34 days annual leave and 4 public holidays after 5 years.
14. Training, support, learning and development.
15. Opportunity to make a difference to someone’s life.
16. Family friendly working policies and procedures.
17. HSF Health Cash Plans.
18. 24/7 free and confidential Employee Assistance programme.
19. £500 refer a friend scheme (t&c’s apply)
20. Life Assurance Benefit.
21. Workplace Pension.
22. Registered with Concert for Carers.
23. Access to health services free of charge (physiotherapy & occupational health)
24. Cycle to work scheme.
25. Christmas saving scheme.