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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:
1. Excellent Salary and Conditions
2. Distant islands allowance
3. Generous holiday allowance
4. Local Government Pension scheme
5. Flexible working and family friendly policies
6. A varied and interesting workload
7. Excellent training and development opportunities
8. 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:
9. Providing an excellent level of service, by making sure you understand, meet and manage our service users’ needs.
10. Working in an open and honest way, reflecting on your performance and looking for opportunities to improve and develop.
11. Having a positive attitude by being open-minded, fair, respectful, trustworthy and honest.
12. Taking your responsibilities as an employee of the council seriously.
13. The grade of this post is H
14. Rate of pay shown in the advert is inclusive of Distant Islands Allowance of £1. per hour
15. Temporary Part Time post for 22.5 Hours per Week, 52.18 weeks per year.
16. 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.