Support Worker
Positive Steps
Salary: £25, - £27,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to join Positive Steps Care at Home service in the role of Support Worker. Positive Steps is a city wide short-term mental health Care at Home and Housing Support service, registered with the Care Inspectorate. The service supports individuals to develop the skills necessary to live independently and involves considerable lone working. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that support is provided in accordance with an individual's identified goals and support plan. They will also be responsible for developing support plans and risk assessments. The service is open days a yea with staff working to a rolling rota shift pattern. There will be an additional Working Time Payment to reflect shift working.
City of Edinburgh Council are currently going through a service review. It must therefore be noted to potential candidates that structures and posts may be subject to change
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.