Jobs in George St & Harbour, Aberdeen

Our service is expanding and we have an exciting opportunity for Bank Senior Nursing Support Workers within our Outreach Service based in Aberdeen

Benefits

· Full time colleagues work 3 shifts per week

· All working patterns considered: full time, part time and flexible

· Free on site parking

· Regular clinical supervision

· Comprehensive induction programme

· Access to ongoing education and development opportunities

Would you like to work with remarkable colleagues and meet extraordinary children and families? Would you like to be part of a team providing a flexible and responsive service, whilst delivering holistic person centred palliative care to babies, children and young people, in their own homes?

This is a really exciting time to join Children’s Hospices Across Scotland – better known as CHAS – Scotland’s national children’s hospice service. Our multidisciplinary team of staff and volunteers share an authentic passion for delivering the highest possible standard of care to babies, children, young people and their families.

Following the reconfiguration of our services in response to the Pandemic, we currently have a Bank Senior Nursing Support Worker vacancy in our CHAS at Home team based in Aberdeen. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and motivated Support Worker to join our compassionate and skilled team to provide respite and end of life care for children and families in their own homes.

You will work as part of our dynamic outreach team combining specialist palliative care with making precious memories and moments of joy through play, arts and crafts, outdoor activities and new experiences; ensuring that no matter how short a family’s time together may be, it is a time filled with happiness and fun.

We are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic and creative Bank Senior Nursing Support Worker with experience of working in a Health, Social or Child Care setting. You will have the skills to assist in the delivery of nursing care to babies, children and young people, and have the ability to adapt the care you provide to meet the individual needs of families.

Qualifications and Experience

You will be educated to SVQ level 3/ have a HNC in Health, Social or Child Care or be able to evidence equivalent experience. You will have relevant knowledge of care procedures and clinical observations and the ability to work confidently with IT in a care setting. As well as being a good communicator, able to work co-operatively with colleagues, you will also be an innovative thinker, self-motivated and committed to your own learning and development.

Be part of our ambition

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heartbreaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Senior Nursing Support Worker, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision and shaping the future of CHAS.

Our service is expanding and we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Nursing Support Worker within our Outreach Service based in Aberdeen.

Benefits

· Full time colleagues work 3 shifts per week

· All working patterns considered: full time, part time and flexible

· Generous holiday and sick pay

· Continuation of NHS pension scheme for existing members

· Lothian Pension Fund membership available

· Employee assistance programme (which includes free access to counselling, financial advice

· Occupational sick pay and maternity pay

· Free on site parking

· Regular clinical supervision

· Comprehensive induction programme

· Access to ongoing education and development opportunities

Would you like to work with remarkable colleagues and meet extraordinary children and families? Would you like to be part of a team providing a flexible and responsive service, whilst delivering holistic person centred palliative care to babies, children and young people, in their own homes?

This is a really exciting time to join Children’s Hospices Across Scotland – better known as CHAS – Scotland’s national children’s hospice service. Our multidisciplinary team of staff and volunteers share an authentic passion for delivering the highest possible standard of care to babies, children, young people and their families.

Following the reconfiguration of our services in response to the Pandemic, we currently have a Senior Nursing Support Worker vacancy in our CHAS at Home team based in Aberdeen. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and motivated Support Worker to join our compassionate and skilled team to provide respite and end of life care for children and families in their own homes.

You will work as part of our dynamic outreach team combining specialist palliative care with making precious memories and moments of joy through play, arts and crafts, outdoor activities and new experiences; ensuring that no matter how short a family’s time together may be, it is a time filled with happiness and fun.

We are seeking a compassionate, enthusiastic and creative Senior Nursing Support Worker with experience of working in a Health, Social or Child Care setting. You will have the skills to assist in the delivery of nursing care to babies, children and young people, and have the ability to adapt the care you provide to meet the individual needs of families.

Qualifications and Experience

You will be educated to SVQ level 3/ have a HNC in Health, Social or Child Care or be able to evidence equivalent experience. You will have relevant knowledge of care procedures and clinical observations and the ability to work confidently with IT in a care setting. As well as being a good communicator, able to work co-operatively with colleagues, you will also be an innovative thinker, self-motivated and committed to your own learning and development.

Be part of our ambition

At CHAS, staff and volunteers work together as one team, focused on the common goal of reaching every family in Scotland who needs our support. We have a 3:1 ratio of volunteers to staff members in CHAS. All CHAS staff will at some point work with or alongside volunteers and will be expected to support volunteers.

Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heartbreaking prognosis that their child is dying, and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As a Senior Nursing Support Worker, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision and shaping the future of CHAS.

This role is being advertised as Shop Manager but on appointment your job title will be Community Shop Manager.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone who has experience of managing a team and can demonstrate how they have empowered and motivated that team beyond expectations. With the added experience of being able to recruit and develop a diverse team, in particular volunteers, you may be exactly what we are looking for.

About Shelter Scotland

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.

We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.

About the role

Your role will be varied and will challenge you, but will provide you with stimulating and satisfying work. Our Community Shop Managers do not have a typical day and that's because they are continually seeking different opportunities to engage with the local community and increase their shops contribution to Shelter's cause. This could be through local community links, such as with other retailers, schools, churches or the local food bank.

You will develop and encourage your own and your team's interest and passion in merchandising the shop to attract those customers and donors through the door as well as continually developing your own and your team's knowledge of who Shelter are and what we do.

It goes without saying that your volunteers, under your leadership, will run an exceptional shop that will raise as much money as possible for Shelter's work.

How do I demonstrate I am who you are looking for?

You will need to address and provide examples of the following in your application and at interview:

• Experience of managing a team of staff and or volunteers, including recruitment and development of that team
• Experience of providing excellent customer service, preferably in a face-to-face role
• Experience of being enterprising and innovative

How do we describe our Community Shop Managers?

If we were to describe our Community Shop Managers in 4 key words, they would be Confident, Inspiring, Enterprising and Influential. Our Community Shop Managers are happy to roll up their sleeves and lead by example and their aim is to develop and empower their team.

At Shelter we value our people and the skills and expertise they can bring to their role to help further Shelter's cause. As a Community Shop Manager, how you manage people is the most important skill we are looking for and it will be critical to your success in this role.

What are the benefits?

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, childcare vouchers, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.