Jobs in Girvan and South Carrick, South Ayrshire

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As our Community Mental Health Practitioner, you will work in partnership with the Carrick Academy and Girvan Academy school communities in South Ayrshire, with an outward facing priority towards community collaboration ensuring that the young people are provided with therapeutic and emotional support, high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service. This includes undertaking clinical assessments and formulations.

This is a new role which is embedded within the local community, as such the successful candidate will be highly motivated and flexible, to help develop an innovate service across Carrick and Girvan community in collaboration with the schools and our staff in those schools. A key part of this role will be identifying and building effective links with the local community, including statutory and third sector partners, who work with young people in the area. Evening work and travel to both school communities, is expected.

You will receive referrals from our community partners, undertake clinical work with young people and possibly provide Place2Be services such as Place2Talk, Place2Think and Parent Partnership interventions as agreed with the Area Manager, and school based Mental Health Practitioners within each school. This work may take place in a school or community setting during business hours. Input to community groups will take place in evenings.

You'll ensure high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service, by undertaking clinical assessments and formulations, identifying and delivering appropriate clinical interventions for young people, establishing positive, active and effective relationships with the school and community partners and Place2Be management team and actively participating in staff meetings to share best practice and develop clinical thinking, knowledge and learning.

About You

The successful candidate:

Will have a recognised counselling or therapy qualification with substantial post-qualifying experience, along with a good knowledge of the school environment. Most important of all is your approach; we are an exciting, dynamic organisation doing amazing work so we're looking for people with the enthusiasm and commitment to match our own.

You will:

• Hold a recognised clinical qualification (in counselling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology, Art/Dance/Drama/Music Therapy)
• Hold a recognised membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. BACP / UKCP/NCS/BPS/HCPC)
• experience in a clinical role with experience and understanding of working with children, young people and schools
• demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the importance of embedding Assessment and Formulation in clinical practice
• experience of safeguarding child protection procedures and policy and commitment to safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
• show an understanding of how to run an effective school based mental health project and managing and accounting for overall caseload
• have previous experience in developing project plans into sensible, timely actions that meet the expectations of the school and more senior colleagues

In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
• Robust Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
• Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
• Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay

If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling - you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children 1st team in the Carrick Family Wellbeing Service. The service offers community based, child centred family wellbeing support across the Carrick locality of Girvan, Maybole and the surrounding villages.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and committed to engaging with communities to co-ordinate and oversee the operational delivery of the Girvan Food Pantry. This will include recruitment, induction, training, and support of volunteers.

The successful candidate will carry out an important role to create a sustainable, holistic service to meet the needs of the community through community engagement and active participation from the planning stage through to implementation and growth of the Food Pantry.

If you are passionate about connecting with people and communities, we are keen to hear from you.

This is a fixed term, part-time role of 17.5 hours per week, funded initially for 6 months.

Children 1ST is Scotland’s National Children’s Charity. We help Scotland’s families to put children first, with practical advice and with support in difficult times. And when the worst happens, we support survivors of abuse, neglect, and other traumatic events in childhood, to recover.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Carrick Family Wellbeing Service providing support to children, young people, and their families in the Carrick Communities of South Ayrshire.

We are looking to recruit a childcare support worker to work alongside the team to provide care, support and play activities to children aged 0-5 in a nurturing childcare service environment and to provide support to parents and carers.

If you have experience of working in a childcare/ early years setting and have an SVQ Level 3/HNC or equivalent in Child Care/Early Years or related area, or other relevant qualification at SCQF level 7 then we want to hear from you.

The Supported Housing Worker role requires assisting in the management of the development thus ensuring the tenants are able to enjoy an acceptable standard of living in an environment which is clean, safe and friendly. You will be responsible for overseeing the wellbeing of the tenants and for assisting them in maintaining their independence.

As Housing Care Worker your role will involve working with our tenants to ensure they receive the support and personal care identified in their care plans. You will directly support tenants in their homes by providing individual advice, practical housing support assistance and personal care.

Both roles are to ensure that we are able to offer the best service to our tenants and make it possible for our tenants to continue enjoying as much independent living as they’re able.

As well as a competitive annual salary, our valued team also benefits from:

• competitive hourly rates of £9.76 - £10.25 per hour
• guaranteed rota hours working between 7.30am & 10pm
• generous annual leave entitlement
• a choice of pension scheme with employer contributions
• flexible working policies
• access to extensive paid training and development opportunities
• a supportive and inclusive culture.

We also have opportunities with our Trust Staff Agency - for employees who want to work across different locations, in various roles, with highly flexible hours to suit family commitments - it's a great opportunity with the same training and development that our other roles benefit from.

Previous experience working in social care or the housing sector would be an advantage but this is not always necessary. Our ideal candidate is someone with enthusiasm, a caring nature and willingness to learn as full training, support and ongoing development will be provided.