Support Worker - Community - Bon Accord Care - ABC10146 inAberdeen inAberdeen PUBLISHED
SUN 17 NOV 2024
Opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of vulnerable individuals by providing essential support and care.
Flexible working hours, allowing for a work-life balance with shift patterns that accommodate personal commitments.
Competitive pay with enhancement rates for evening, weekend, and holiday shifts, providing additional financial incentives.
Full training and comprehensive induction provided, ensuring new staff feel confident and prepared in their roles.
Access to a pension scheme and annual leave starting at 28 days plus public holidays, contributing to overall job security and well-being.
A supportive work environment that encourages team collaboration and continuous development in a rewarding field.
Mileage reimbursement, rewarding staff for travel between service users across Aberdeen City.
The role of Support Worker at Bon Accord Care involves providing high-quality, person-centred care to vulnerable individuals in their homes within Aberdeen City. The position, requiring 18 to 36 hours of work per week, emphasises empathy, compassion, and a strong commitment to enabling service users to maintain their independence and wellbeing. Applicants should possess a full UK driving license and either hold or be willing to obtain a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) membership.
Support Workers will collaborate with other professionals to deliver tailored care plans, promoting respect, choice, and dignity for all service users. The role includes a two-week shift pattern, evening and weekend work with enhanced pay rates, and provides comprehensive training, a local government pension, and 28 days of annual leave plus public holidays. Key responsibilities include delivering personal care, effective communication, teamwork, and supporting both service users and colleagues in achieving better care outcomes.
Support Workers will collaborate with other professionals to deliver tailored care plans, promoting respect, choice, and dignity for all service users. The role includes a two-week shift pattern, evening and weekend work with enhanced pay rates, and provides comprehensive training, a local government pension, and 28 days of annual leave plus public holidays. Key responsibilities include delivering personal care, effective communication, teamwork, and supporting both service users and colleagues in achieving better care outcomes.
Job Description
Before applying for this job, it is important that you read the Applicant Guidance by clicking on this link and the Job Profile attached. These explain the job role and the type of person we're looking for. If you are new to the caring profession you should check to see if it is the career for you by going to www.jobsincare.com/job/jblip505 and trying their interactive video challenge.
Location: City Wide
Duration: Permanent.
Hours: 18 - 36 hours
We are looking for someone to support service users in the community across Aberdeen City. We are looking for someone who can show empathy, compassion, and understand the needs of vulnerable people. The right person would be someone who can offer high standards of care, be flexible, committed, enthusiastic. Interim Care at Home is a Bon Accord Care service offering short term care and support in our service user’s own homes. We provide person centred care packages and work alongside other professionals to ensure needs are meet through high quality support. Through this co-ordinated care we support to maximise wellbeing, whilst ensuring our service users have control and choice over their care and how it is delivered.
The shift patterns are 07:30 – 13:30 and 16:00 – 22:00. We work on a 2-week rota to meet the needs of the service, where you would be working every second weekend. There is a 33% enhancement rate for working after 20:00 and 40% enhancement rate for working Saturdays and Sundays
Full training and comprehensive induction, PVG Paid, Local Government Pension, Refer a friend bonus scheme, Mileage paid at 45p per mile, Annual leave starting at 28 days plus public holidays pro-rota.
Applicants must hold a full driving licence.
Job Purpose
Throughout Aberdeen city you will provide a high standard of person-centred care and support for service users in a range of accommodation settings, including their own homes. You will work as part of a team to support carers and to enable service users to maintain and develop their potential and contribute to their social, physical and mental wellbeing
Requirements
The post holder needs to hold as a minimum:
Qualification required by SSSC
Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme Record (PVG) or willing to become a scheme member
To have registered or undertaken registration with the SSSC where applicable
Full UK Driving Licence
Responsibilities
The post holder is expected to demonstrate:
The ability to provide personal care to a range of people with support needs
The ability to promote dignity, respect, choice and independent living and work in an anti-discriminatory way
The ability to communicate effectively and work in partnership with service users, staff, carers, families and internal/external professionals to achieve improved outcomes for service users
An ability to work as part of a team and provide guidance and support to other members of staff
The Individual
Please see Job Profile for further details
Before applying for this job, it is important that you read the Applicant Guidance by clicking on this link and the Job Profile attached. These explain the job role and the type of person we're looking for. If you are new to the caring profession you should check to see if it is the career for you by going to www.jobsincare.com/job/jblip505 and trying their interactive video challenge.
Location: City Wide
Duration: Permanent.
Hours: 18 - 36 hours
We are looking for someone to support service users in the community across Aberdeen City. We are looking for someone who can show empathy, compassion, and understand the needs of vulnerable people. The right person would be someone who can offer high standards of care, be flexible, committed, enthusiastic. Interim Care at Home is a Bon Accord Care service offering short term care and support in our service user’s own homes. We provide person centred care packages and work alongside other professionals to ensure needs are meet through high quality support. Through this co-ordinated care we support to maximise wellbeing, whilst ensuring our service users have control and choice over their care and how it is delivered.
The shift patterns are 07:30 – 13:30 and 16:00 – 22:00. We work on a 2-week rota to meet the needs of the service, where you would be working every second weekend. There is a 33% enhancement rate for working after 20:00 and 40% enhancement rate for working Saturdays and Sundays
Full training and comprehensive induction, PVG Paid, Local Government Pension, Refer a friend bonus scheme, Mileage paid at 45p per mile, Annual leave starting at 28 days plus public holidays pro-rota.
Applicants must hold a full driving licence.
Job Purpose
Throughout Aberdeen city you will provide a high standard of person-centred care and support for service users in a range of accommodation settings, including their own homes. You will work as part of a team to support carers and to enable service users to maintain and develop their potential and contribute to their social, physical and mental wellbeing
Requirements
The post holder needs to hold as a minimum:
Qualification required by SSSC
Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme Record (PVG) or willing to become a scheme member
To have registered or undertaken registration with the SSSC where applicable
Full UK Driving Licence
Responsibilities
The post holder is expected to demonstrate:
The ability to provide personal care to a range of people with support needs
The ability to promote dignity, respect, choice and independent living and work in an anti-discriminatory way
The ability to communicate effectively and work in partnership with service users, staff, carers, families and internal/external professionals to achieve improved outcomes for service users
An ability to work as part of a team and provide guidance and support to other members of staff
The Individual
Please see Job Profile for further details
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