Summary
Salary: 12.50 per hour Location: Midlothian Service: Tenancy Support - Homelessness Hours: 36 hours per week Shifts: VariousPost: Support Worker – Tenancy Support – Homelessness
Contract: Permanent
Care Support Scotland
We are a charity with decades of experience supporting people across Scotland, providing those who need us with support that ranges from Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity, Youth and Adult homelessness and Older People services.
We have the following benefits to help attract and retain the best talent, ensuring we provide high quality care to those we support, this includes:
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Death in benefit cover (2 times salary)
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Fully funded qualifications
- Career development and progression opportunities
We are looking for a hard working and enthusiastic support worker to join our expanding team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about a career in social care who wants to gain valuable hands-on experience and enhance their skillset. Above all we want someone that shares in our values. Our mission is to provide positive, life changing support, delivered by inspiring, professional staff.
As an Outreach Support Worker, you’ll play a crucial role in empowering individuals to sustain their tenancies and achieve independence. You’ll provide tailored, hands-on support helping them navigate challenges such as financial difficulties, accessing resources, and improving overall wellbeing
- Provide support that positively impacts the person we support’s health and wellbeing
- Contribute and implement support plans
- Be responsible for the delivery of all support and its administration, including tenancy support to sustain
- Empathetic and Patient
- Compassionate
- Ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative
- Ability to engage in continuous development, including formal learning
- Qualified to the level required by the SSSC as a support worker in a housing support service, or a willingness to work towards and to successfully complete qualification within the SSSC specified timeframe.
- If you’re starting a career in social care, or are already working in social care but don’t have the qualifications just yet, we will support you to gain the appropriate qualifications needed to register without condition with the SSSC.
- We want to encourage our staff and their own personal development. Training will be provided to help you excel in your role. We offer funded SCQF levelled qualifications, such as SVQs and HNCs as part of your development plan.
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