About us:

Partners for Inclusion Group are a provider committed to offering truly person centred individualised support to people with learning and/or mental health disabilities in Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire. We design and deliver tailored services which allow people the freedom to live a life of their choosing and enjoy the benefits a small self-managed support team can provide.

Benefits of working with us include:

• Career development opportunities
• Comprehensive in-house learning and development
• A competitive salary
• Excellent Company Pension scheme
• On-call payments
• Opportunity to join Credit Union Scheme after 6 months of employment
• Death in Service
• Westfield Health Cash Plan Scheme.

About the role:

• You will need the understanding, values and skills to be able to put the people we support at the center of everything.
• You should have experience or a real interest in facilitating self-managing teams.
• You will work to ensure that the person supported, their family, their circle of support and team are empowered to deliver outcome-based support.
• To make sure you know the person supported well, and where appropriate, provide direct support including sleepover support.
• A flexible approach to working hours and shared responsibilities for Organisational on-call.
• You are skilled and have experience in partnership working in order to involve families and stakeholders to work towards creative support
• Be experienced in facilitating teams to build capacity in order to ensure support needs are met.
• Recruit safely and effectively in line with best practice and Organisational requirements.
• Able to demonstrate effective leadership skills, including self-reflection and development, for yourself and others.
• An ability to help manage people’s budgets involving the person their family, and team.
• SVQ level 3/4 in Social care or equivalent is essential.

The Partners for Inclusion Group are looking to recruit Support Practitioners across Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire and Glasgow areas. These posts are for a variety of hours from a few hours a week to full-time hours.

Our vision is for all our teams to be self-managing, which means keeping the decision making as close to the person supported.

We provide personalised high quality support by matching team members’ likes, needs, hobbies and interests which is bespoke to the person supported.

Experience of working in this area is desirable but sound values and a real interest in supporting people with learning disabilities / mental health / physical disabilities to have the life of their choosing is fundamental to what we do.

We encourage applications from people who have a real passion about enabling people to be all that they can be, regardless of their disability. Some of the other qualities that we look for in people are:

· Outgoing

· Flexible

· Confident

· Team Player

· Work on own initiative

· Good Listener

· Compassionate

The role involves shift work including evening, weekends, sleepovers (where required) and public holidays. We provide a detailed induction programme and ongoing training for all employees.

In line with the Scottish Social Services Council you will be required to have or work towards an appropriate qualification and must register within 6 months of commencing employment with us. You will also be required to register with the PVG scheme.