Glasgow East End Community Carers has been providing support to unpaid carers across the East End of Glasgow for nearly 30 years. We are looking for a Parent Carer/Autism Family Worker to join our small, energetic team.

Our Carers Hub supports unpaid carers who are looking after a family member, partner or friend who cannot cope alone due to illness, disability, frailty or substance/alcohol misuse or addiction.

Our service is based on building and sustaining a ‘carers community’, placing carers as equal partners and working creatively to ensure their needs and opinions shape our services. We focus on providing early intervention and ongoing support that recognises carers’ changing circumstances and evolving needs throughout their caring journey. Our services empower carers by providing information, tools and resources to improve wellbeing, facilitate positive long-term change and ensure carers are able to continue in their role, without detriment to their own health and wellbeing for as long as is appropriate.

We are looking for an emotionally intelligent worker who is a solutions-focused team player and committed to improving the lives of carers and those they care for. You must be flexible and open to providing a service that evolves with need, have excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusting, non-judgemental, relationships with adults and children with a broad range of life experiences.

The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar role, and will understand the challenges faced by parents/carers looking after a child with a disability or long-term health condition. You must have a thorough understanding of autism spectrum condition, how it impacts individuals and families and be skilled in providing the necessary supports.

Glasgow East End Community Carers has been providing support to unpaid carers across the East End of Glasgow for nearly 30 years. We are looking for an Adult Carer Support & Development Worker to join our small, energetic team.

Our Carers Hub supports unpaid carers who are looking after a family member, partner or friend who cannot cope alone due to illness, disability, frailty or substance/alcohol misuse or addiction.

Our service is based on building and sustaining a ‘carers community’, placing carers as equal partners and working creatively to ensure their needs and opinions shape our services. We focus on providing early intervention and ongoing support that recognises carers’ changing circumstances and evolving needs throughout their caring journey. Our services empower carers by providing information, tools and resources to improve wellbeing, facilitate positive long-term change and ensure carers are able to continue in their role, without detriment to their own health and wellbeing for as long as is appropriate.

We are looking for an emotionally intelligent worker who is a solutions-focused team player and committed to improving the lives of carers and those they care for. You must be flexible and open to providing a service that evolves with need, have excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusting, non-judgemental, relationships with adults and children with a broad range of life experiences.

The successful candidate will have previous experience in a similar role, understand the challenges faced by unpaid carers and be able to work with a broad range of adult carer groups including;

• Parent carers

• Parents of adults with disabilities/additional needs

• Male carers

• Dementia and older carers

• Autism carers

• Young adult carers

Are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives and about the opportunities that Self-Directed Support brings to support each person’s individual journey?

Are you an experienced worker in health or social care, looking for an exciting and challenging personal development opportunity?

Do you have excellent Leadership qualities and a willingness and appetite for your own learning and development?

If your answer to these questions is “YES”– you may be the person we are looking for!

Key is a leading social care organisation that provides high quality, flexible support, to people with disabilities, some of whom have complex needs. We provide Self-Directed Support that has a clear focus on positive outcomes, tailored to meet individual needs of the people we support.

We are seeking highly motivated, imaginative, and enthusiastic individuals, with a true commitment to personalisation, to join our established, integrated management team in Glasgow.

In addition to providing some direct support to individuals, the successful candidates will lead and manage a small team(s) of workers who provide personalised support to a number of individuals with a range support needs, gifts and talents. As part of our established and supportive management team, you will take a lead role in planning, co-ordinating and monitoring support to a number of people.

Our staff are our most important asset and as such we offer extensive training and development opportunities, including support to obtain relevant SSSC recognised qualifications.

You will be part of a supportive, local team and will receive:

• 38 days annual leave, inclusive of public holidays
• Organisation sick pay
• Paid PVG Membership
• Eligible to apply for a Blue Light Card/ Blue Light Ticket Schemes offering discounts and savings
• Registered with Concert for Carers
• Eligible to register for a Costco Membership
• Credit Union Membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension Contributions

The post includes evening and weekend working as well as support to local managers and other workers out with normal working hours.

Are you experienced in health or social care and are looking for an exciting and challenging personal development opportunity?

Do you believe that people with disabilities should have the same opportunities in life as everyone else and are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives?

If your answer to these questions is “Yes”, then you may be the very person we are looking for!

Key is committed to providing high quality, flexible, person centred services to people who have a wide variety of support needs including, learning disabilities, autism, young people in transition and people who have mental health support needs. Some of the individuals we support have complex needs we focus on positive outcomes to help people maintain and improve their lives at home and in the wider community.

Due to ongoing growth and development of our service we are seeking a highly motivated, imaginative and enthusiastic individual with a true commitment to personalisation to join our Rutherglen service. This is a new post at the service, the successful candidate will be expected to develop the role and use their initiative to work alone at times with external line management support.

The Team Manager role will include providing direct care and support, as well as support planning and monitoring the quality of services provided to a number of supported people. It will also include managing, mentoring and providing day to day support and supervision to small worker teams and working creatively and flexibly to provide positive leadership and support to them.

Evening, weekend work and overnight support responsibilities are required as well as rotational on call support to workers out with ‘normal working hours’.

Our staff are our most important asset as such we offer extensive training and development opportunities, including support to obtain relevant SSSC recognised qualifications.