- Advertised from 4th August 2021
- £11.56 per hour. Working Pattern: Part-time + AL/sickness cover (negotiable)
- CG OH
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. You will support the employer with social, work-related and domestic activities in a variety of settings.
Key Responsibilities
· Assist the employer with a range of activities, including meeting friends/attending social events, going for a walk, to the cinema, accessing employment, managing administrative tasks (and enable him to pursue his other 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 both male and female applicants.
· Interviews will be conducted via video call.
· Employment is dependent upon the successful completion of two paid trial shifts.
· Training is provided.
Application notes
An application form is available for download below.
To apply for this position, email your completed application form or CV to pajobs@lothiancil.org.uk
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Support Worker
- Full time or Part time
- Sessional
- Glamis House, Blair Avenue, Glenrothes, KY7 4RT (On site)
- Closing 6th May 2024
Are you someone who possesses compassion and determination? Is your demeanour warm and friendly? Do you have a strong desire to empower vulnerable individuals, allowing them to lead life on their own terms?
If so, we invite you to join our Supported Living team and become a part of something truly special! We currently have a variety of full-time and part-time shifts available based between Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy.
Please note that unfortunately we do not accept sponsorship for this role.
Supported Living service operates 24 hours per day with a mixture of day shifts (8am start), late shifts (10pm finish) comprising the majority of support hours, while also providing appropriate Waking Night Support. Successful candidates would fit in to a rota pattern that meets the needs of the service but also attempts to accommodate the needs of individual staff members.
Our Supported Living service is based in the Glenrothes area. As a Support Worker, you will hold a crucial role in delivering exceptional care and support to individuals, enabling them to exercise their choices and live life to its fullest. Your duties will involve aiding with personal care, managing medications, providing mealtime support, and fostering independence and engagement.
While prior experience as a Support Worker, Care Assistant, or Healthcare Assistant is advantageous, it's not mandatory, as we provide an excellent training and induction program to thoroughly prepare you for your new position.
We offer a wide range of employee rewards to include:
- Wagestream, option to withdraw up to 40% of your pay before pay day (click here for more details).
- Free Blue Light Card.
- Contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
- Access to a Cash Health Plan at very favourable rates.
- Great development opportunities through our apprenticeship schemes and chance to gain recognised qualifications.
- Unlimited payments through our Refer a Friend bonus scheme.
- Free PVG check.
- Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
Top job! Chair appointment to the board of the Scottish Food Commission
- Management Board
- Sessional
- Edinburgh (On site)
- Closing 8th May 2024
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and influence the development of a new public body: the Scottish Food Commission. It is expected that the Commission will be formally established by mid-2025.
The Scottish Food Commission is a new non-departmental public body that is to be established to provide an oversight role of provisions made in the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022.
As the first chair of the Scottish Food Commission, this appointment will play a crucial role in shaping the future and strategic direction of this new public body.
You will be actively involved in the recruitment of the chief executive, the first member of staff to the Scottish Food Commission, and in appointing the other members of the board.
You will work closely with the sponsor team and the chief executive, once in place, to enable the new public body to take on its statutory functions and full budgetary control once it is established.
Once the body is fully established you will be key in ensuring the Commission effectively fulfils its oversight role and provides constructive challenge, that is evidence based, to Scottish Ministers and relevant authorities in relation to their Good Food Nation Plans.
This is a high publicity role that will attract great interest from key stakeholders interested in the Scottish food system.
Remuneration and time commitment
The chair role is paid at a gross daily rate of £211 per day (7.5 hours).This role is non-pensionable. This means that there is no pension contribution paid.
We expect that the time commitment will change over the life of the body. While the body is being established and during the first months of operation more engagement will be needed – i.e. up to 80 days/year. During the establishment phase there may also be phases of increased activity.
It is likely that once the body is established the chair’s time commitment will decrease to approximately 50 days/year.
The chair’s time commitment will be reviewed on a regular basis.
Skills/Experience Required
Scottish Ministers welcome applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds who have the following
skills/knowledge/experience:
All of the following priority criteria:
- Experience of setting up a new organisation, and setting the direction for that organisation
- Experience of navigating a complex policymaking landscape, including communicating with a range of stakeholders
- Leadership and Management
All of the following essential criteria:
- Analysis and Decision-making
- Seeing the bigger picture
- Communication, influence and constructive challenge
- Understanding of the complexity of the food system
Could you be Key?
Being a support worker is a role where you can make every day matter. It's a job with challenges that make your heart beat faster, where you can give something of yourself and empower amazing people on their journey through life.
At key we support disabled people of all ages to make every day matter.
We are passionate about being the very best employer we can be, ensuring our staff feel well supported and valued in their roles. As well as being part of a supportive, local team you will be eligible for:
• Hourly rate of £11.00* (Induction rate £10.90) - *pay award pending.
• Sleepover hourly rate of £10.90.
• Competitive annual leave and company sick pay.
• Enhanced pay for work on targeted Public Holidays.
• Paid Membership of Disclosure Scotland’s PVG Scheme.
• Full, in-depth training for your role.
• Fully funded SVQ qualification with support provided to achieve this.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential counselling, advice and support on a wide range of issues.
• A Workplace Pension.
• Free access to occupational health support.
• Credit Union Membership.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Costco Membership.
• Blue Light Card/Blue Light Ticket registration which offer a range of discounts and savings.
• Concerts for Carers registration.
Join us and make every day matter! Support Workers and Relief Support Workers.
No experience necessary! Training and support will be given to help you achieve your full potential.
If you would like to get involved in support work but cannot commit to a contract due to other commitments, we also have opportunities for you to complement our existing workers by joining our relief register of bank support workers. This will mean you can work in a way that best suits you and fits with your life.
Are you looking for a change of job or career?
Are you passionate about making a positive difference in people’s lives?
Key, are a compassionate and caring social care organisation who have worked in North Ayrshire for around 30yrs. We have services in Ardrossan, Saltcoats, Stevenston and Kilwinning and are 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.
Due to our services expanding we are looking to recruit Support Workers.
Full details can be found here.
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