Personal Assistant (PA) To Young Disabled Man
- Part time
- Sessional
- Edinburgh
- Closing 1st November 2021
- Advertised from 29th September 2021
- £11.24 per hour. Part-time or casual (full-hours available in future)
Role
Summary
As a Personal Assistant (PA), your role is to support the employer, a disabled man and powerchair-user in his late 20s, to pursue his ambitions and live as independently as possible.
This opportunity is only open to holders of a driving licence valid in the UK.
Key Responsibilities
• Assist the employer with a range of activities, including meeting friends, going for a walk, to the cinema, accessing employment, managing administrative tasks (and enabling him to pursue his interests, desires and goals in general).
• Assist the employer out and about, including driving the employer’s adapted van.
• Assist the employer with tidying, laundry, shopping and other household tasks.
• Assist the employer with eating, drinking and preparing food.
• Assist the employer with dressing and personal care, including use of a ceiling hoist for transfers.
Skills & Personal Qualities
• Enthusiastic, outgoing and positive attitude.
• Excellent communication, social and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent time-management and organisational skills.
• Previous experience supporting a disabled person is desirable, but not essential.
• Driving licence valid in the UK is essential.
• Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership is essential.
Additional Information
• Opportunity is open to male and female applicants.
• Employment is dependent upon the successful completion of two paid trial shifts.
• Training is provided.
Application notes
To apply for this position, email your completed application form or CV to pajobs@lothiancil.org.uk, quoting job reference CG OH in the subject line. Download an application form via the link below.
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Support Workers
- Full time or Part time
- £18,525 – £20,614
- Various locations
- Closing 31st October 2021
LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people of all ages to overcome the negative impacts of trauma, mental health, inequality, and isolation. We deliver our support to service users through a range of models including:
Personal development and employability programmes
- Self-help coaching
- Supported accommodation
- Care at home
- Housing support
- Befriending
- Social cafes
At LinkLiving, our values and people are at the heart of everything we do including recruiting our employees. We put the people we support first. It is important to us to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own. Our values are:
- l Empathy (listen to and understand an individual’s needs and circumstances)
- l Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated)
- l Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles)
- l Caring (show kindness and concern for others)
We’re seeking to recruit some great new Support Workers to join the different services we provide. We have a variety of roles available on a full-time, part-time or relief basis. Please see the job descriptions attached for the roles we are currently recruiting for. Please state in your application which role/s you wish to be considered for and if you are looking for full-time, part-time or relief hours. You don’t need to have previous experience or qualifications for some of our roles. If you share our values, we would love to hear from you.
LinkLiving’s Services (Please click on the below services to find out more about them)
Young People Services
- Edinburgh Young Persons’ Service – Supporting Our Young Adults (SOYA)
- Edinburgh Young Persons’ Service – Visiting Housing Support
- Edinburgh Young Persons’ Service – Independent Living Skills
- Steps to Resilience
- Steps to Success
Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
- Building Resilience for a Better Home
- Help on Managing Everything (HoME)
- Edinburgh Transform Through Transitions
Fife Trauma and Accommodation Services
Fife Visiting Support Services
Older Person’s Services
- Fife Older Persons’ Service – Help to Stay at Home
- Fife Older Persons’ Service – Social Café’s
- Fife Older Persons’ Service – Volunteer Befriending
Mental Health Services
Training and Groupwork
Some roles involve lone working and these posts require the job holder to display a high level of resilience and initiative when working with people in their own tenancy or in the community when they may be in distress.
To find out more about a career in care, the following video provides an insight into what you can expect - aquestionofcare.org.uk
Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within 6 months of their start date.
HR Adviser
- Full time
- £25,000
- Hybrid working between office (Glenrothes) and home, with some local travel to clients as required (PPE provided)
- Closing 5th November 2021
About Us
Established over 21 years ago, Disabled Peoples Housing Service Fife has been for many years, helping people with disabilities to apply for housing from the various providers in Fife. In 2017 we became the main organisation in Fife charged with supporting people interested in employing their own Personal Assistants to help with their social care needs. Currently the SDS (Self Directed Support) team has 189 “active” cases – with varying assistance needs from the team. This new role brings our specific HR support to PA employers “in-house” and we anticipate will enable us to deliver a more rounded service to people for whom this maybe the first time they’ve employed someone. Filling the role marks an exciting point in the organisation’s development and offers the person with the right skills a very satisfying and rewarding job.
What you’ll do
As HR Advisor you’ll play a key role in the SDS team, providing tailored advice and support to clients who have chosen to employ their own Personal Assistant under ‘Option 1’ – Direct Payment of SDS. This will be a varied and self-directed role, with a focus on proactive development of employment best practice. You’ll establish positive and ongoing relationships with clients, supporting them on their journey as a new employer by advising on a range of topics including agreeing terms and conditions, working patterns, understanding pay roll and HMRC requirements. With established employers, your role will be as HR Generalist, advising and guiding clients through queries relating to the full employee cycle.
What we need
We’re looking for an experienced HR Advisor with an excellent working knowledge of employment legislation and best practice. Ideally CIPD qualified with a demonstrable track record of continuous professional development, you’ll be skilled in developing effective relationships and demonstrate a client-centred approach.
We’re looking for someone who has:
· Confident communication skills, with highly developed active listening and questioning skills
· An empathic and inclusive approach, possibly with direct experience of working/living with people with disabilities
· Experience of developing and delivering HR related training and practical workshops
· A clean, full driving license and access to own vehicle
Service: Time for You
Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.
SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.
Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.
SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
For Scotland’s Mental Health
The ‘Time for You’ project brings SAMH, Living Life to the Full Ltd. (LLTTF) and Glasgow Caledonian University together to provide three options of accessible mental health support (self-help, supported self-help and psychological support) to those who have been at the frontline since lockdown started in March 2020. Keyworkers have worked tirelessly, in extremely challenging working situations, and many will have struggled with stress and high levels of anxiety about their own safety, the safety of their families and the safety of the people they supported. We feel it is vital that we offer the chance for Key Workers to take some time back to care for themselves.
Time for You will provide support to keyworkers, for example, those working in health, social care, education, criminal justice, retail, food supply and public transport; to enable them to recover from the significant pressures they will have experienced since lockdown; to develop coping strategies enabling them to self-manage their own mental health and remain in their crucial roles. As well as benefitting people’s mental health, this service will bring huge societal benefits in terms of health and the economy by helping to keep keyworkers in their roles as Scotland seeks to recover and rebuild.
As a Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be responsible for supporting people as they work through their chosen modules of Living Life to the Full. The support you provide will range from short wellbeing check-ins and progress reports to 60-minute sessions of 1:1 coaching, using the Cognitive Behavioural Approaches of Living Life to the Full and other support resources available.
As the position will involve a variety of shift patterns including evenings, you will be flexible in the hours and shifts you are available to work. The post will be home based during the current government restrictions and support will be delivered via Video Call, Telephone, Text and/or Email.
This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to make a difference to peoples’ lives and support them to achieve their identified outcomes. You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and a mature attitude together with adaptability and enthusiasm. Knowledge and experience in supporting people with mental health problems is essential.
Around since 1923, SAMH is Scotland’s national mental health charity.
SAMH has represented the voice of people most affected by mental health problems in Scotland for more than 90 years.
Today, in over 60 communities we work with adults and young people providing mental health social care support, services in primary care, schools and further education, among others. These services together with our national programme work in See Me, respectme, suicide prevention and active living; inform our policy and campaign work to influence positive social change.
SAMH is dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all: with a vision of a society where people are able to live their lives fully, regardless of present or past circumstances.
For Scotland’s Mental Health
The ‘Time for You’ project brings SAMH, Living Life to the Full Ltd. (LLTTF) and Glasgow Caledonian University together to provide three options of accessible mental health support (self-help, supported self-help and psychological support) to those who have been at the frontline since lockdown started in March 2020. Keyworkers have worked tirelessly, in extremely challenging working situations, and many will have struggled with stress and high levels of anxiety about their own safety, the safety of their families and the safety of the people they supported. We feel it is vital that we offer the chance for Key Workers to take some time back to care for themselves.
Time for You will provide support to keyworkers, for example, those working in health, social care, education, criminal justice, retail, food supply and public transport; to enable them to recover from the significant pressures they will have experienced since lockdown; to develop coping strategies enabling them to self-manage their own mental health and remain in their crucial roles. As well as benefitting people’s mental health, this service will bring huge societal benefits in terms of health and the economy by helping to keep keyworkers in their roles as Scotland seeks to recover and rebuild.
As a Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be responsible for supporting people as they work through their chosen modules of Living Life to the Full. The support you provide will range from short wellbeing check-ins and progress reports to 60-minute sessions of 1:1 coaching, using the Cognitive Behavioural Approaches of Living Life to the Full and other support resources available.
As the position will involve a variety of shift patterns including evenings, you will be flexible in the hours and shifts you are available to work. The post will be home based during the current government restrictions and support will be delivered via Video Call, Telephone, Text and/or Email.
This is a challenging and exciting opportunity to make a difference to peoples’ lives and support them to achieve their identified outcomes. You will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and a mature attitude together with adaptability and enthusiasm. Knowledge and experience in supporting people with mental health problems is essential.
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