Female Support Practitioner

Job Description

Make a positive difference in someone’s life by joining The Richmond Fellowship Scotland! Due to continued expansion, we are on the lookout for a compassionate and creative individual with a positive attitude to join us as Support Practitioner, based in Scotlandwell.

Due to the nature of this role, we can only accept applications from female candidates that hold a full UK manual driving licence.

About Us: The Richmond Fellowship Scotland provides personalised and outcome-focused support to over 2800 individuals in their own homes across Scotland, making us the country’s largest provider of social care. We support individuals with a variety of different needs such as physical and/or learning disabilities, ongoing mental health issues, alcohol or substance abuse and autism. Some of the people we support can present challenging behaviour or require a high level of personal care.

The Role

The successful candidate will be supporting service users with learning and physical disabilities and mental health in Scotlandwell and Glenrothes.

You will assist individuals living in their own homes with all aspects of their daily lives, including support with medication and finances, housework, meal preparation, cooking and personal care. The people we support have a variety of hobbies, and we look to you to take an active interest in activities such as going out for a bite of food, catching the latest movie, gym sessions or group activities.

For this role, we are seeking someone with experience in care and supporting people with behaviours of concern. Full training will be offered, including CALMS training.

To be part of our team, we’ll need you to:

• Have an empathetic and caring nature
• Good observation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Confidence in using computers
• Be able to work well in a team environment and on your own
• Good organisational skills

Requirements

As a Support Practitioner you will be expected to work day shifts, evenings shifts, weekends and sleepovers.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Cash back and discounts at a variety of high street and online retailers
• Paid travel during shifts and 45p per mile fuel allowance
• Continuous in house training opportunities and chances to further your career in social care
• Refer a Friend scheme – £150 reward for successfully referring a colleague
• Employee forum for employees to voice their opinions and give feedback which in turn allows us to continuously improve as an employer and ensure a positive working environment
• Free membership of Glasgow Credit Union
• HSF Health Care plan
• Counselling and Life Works service

Schedule 9 Part 1 (1)(1)(a) of the Equality Act 2010 applies to this post.