- Advertised from 10th May 2023
- £11.14 per hour. £16,844 for 29 hours per week. Permanent.
Role
Warm, friendly, and share our values of ensuring the best lives possible for everyone? Raise your hand if that’s you.
About Our Service
Capability Scotland is a well-established and respected provider of community-based facilitation services throughout Dumfries and Galloway. In the past three years we have grown from a small but very well-established and respected service to that of a major contributor to the provision of care and support across Dumfries and the wider region. We pride ourselves on our creativity, flexibility, and willingness to think outside the box with the support we offer.
Capability Scotland provides:
- Self-Directed Support brokerage and payroll service
- Wrap-around rehabilitation service for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
- Community facilitation service for people with physical disabilities.
We currently have a vacancy for an SDS Link Practitioner within our brokerage service.
Interviews will take place on 31st of May and 1st of June (candidates must be available to attend one of these days).
About the role
We are looking for an SDS Link Practitioner to join our busy brokerage team. Working alongside colleagues you will provide the people we support with the opportunity to exercise choice and control over their care needs and how this is delivered.
Self-Directed Support enables people with the choice to receive ‘personalised’ care that reflects their needs and wishes. At Capability Scotland we provide independent advice and support and help to navigate the social care map in Dumfries & Galloway.
Taking a Human Resources approach you will:
- Empower individuals to exercise choice and control around care needs
- Support people to utilise their Direct Payment award
- Guiding people to undertake safer recruitment of personal assistants and become good employers
- Assist people to effectively manage their personal budgets (which may include payroll services)
- Work alongside social work to navigate the intricacies of managing an SDS award
- Give people the opportunity to ensure their views are heard
- Provide general information, advice, and support.
- We are looking for someone who is keen to implement national policy into practice at a local level, keen to implement innovation while maintaining a positive environment and high-quality service. This role is ideal for someone who wants to put their values and vision into practice.
What our staff say about this role:
“It’s rewarding and fulfilling”.
“Every day is different and new challenge”.
“I feel valued and happy in my role. Capability Scotland provides me with flexibility that suits my life and the people we support”.
“I enjoy advocating on behalf of people when SDS becomes difficult and frustrating”.
“I feel I am safe and secure within my role as I receive the right support from my local team”.
Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Fully paid, sector-leading learning and development
- Fully funded SVQ placement – a qualification which is yours for life
- Excellent annual leave of 32 days per year, increasing with service
- Generous and enhanced pension schemes and family benefits
- As a member of our autoenrollment pension scheme, £10,000 provided in the case of Death in Service
- Flexible working is available
- Access to shopping discounts through the Perks At Work scheme
- Access to Cycle to Work Scheme
- Free 24/7 employee assistance programme
- Free PVG checks throughout your career.
Application notes
Applying to Capability Scotland
Applying to work with us couldn’t be simpler. We’ve got an application form on our website that starts by pressing “Apply Now”, and it works perfectly on your mobile phone if you prefer that. You can request any alternative formats of our application form by contacting careers@capability.scot (such as large print or braille).
You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date. We’ll invite successful candidates to an interview so we can learn more about what makes each other tick, in a safe and secure way. You can keep a track
A full job description of this role is available by clicking here: SDS Link Practitioner
For more information on this role, you can call Karen on 07908 431532 or by email at Karen.Pirrie@capability.scot using reference CS230501.
General Information
Capability Scotland is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We are happy to consider job-share applications.
Capability Scotland is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people and conducts thorough pre-employment checks on all preferred candidates.
A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.
Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference to people with care support needs, in your local community?
About Our Service
Capability Scotland is a well-established and respected provider of community-based facilitation services throughout Dumfries and Galloway. In the past three years we have grown from a small but very well established and respected service to that of a major contributor to the provision of care and support across Dumfries and the wider region. We pride ourselves on our creativity, flexibility, and willingness to think outside the box with the support we offer.
Within Dumfries & Galloway we provide:
- Self-Directed Support brokerage
- Payroll Service
- Wrap-around rehabilitation service for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
- Community facilitation service for people with physical disabilities
We currently have a vacancy for an SDS Link Practitioner within our brokerage service.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our busy SDS brokerage team as an SDS Link Practitioner. Following confirmation of funding from The Scottish Government, Support in the Right Direction initiative we are looking forward to further developing our service to deliver our agreed self-directed support outcomes.
Our service will focus on:
- Providing self-directed support information and advice through a variety of approaches.
- Providing accessible information around SDS rights and legislation.
- Providing practical and informed support around SDS outcome planning, at the earliest opportunity.
- Providing informal advocacy.
- Supporting people to get the most out of their care.
- Championing SDS within the local community and empowering individuals to make informed decisions around their care needs.
- Providing practical support around becoming an employer to personal assistants.
We are looking for someone who is keen to promote the benefits of Self-Directed Support, who will implement national policy into practice at a local level, while maintaining a positive environment and high-quality service. This role is ideal for someone who wants to put their values and vision into practice.
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About us
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On a day-to-day basis, Team Leaders supervise and coordinate activities on site, provided support to staff, ensure onsite operations are in line with policy and procedure and assist Team Managers with case and site management. We are looking for a confident communicator with excellent leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
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Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking for people who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment and enthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.
You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.
About you
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you would need some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you have knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.
The role
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will be lone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their own living environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent, high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supported to develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
You will be asked:
• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and Performance Development Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safety responsibilities.
• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegated group of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.
• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.
• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.
• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills and abilities to achieve identified outcomes.
• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.
• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.
• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.
• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from the service provided.
• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.
What is on offer? What do we offer?
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• In-house Mental Health First Aiders.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
• Death in service benefit
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