Community Living Assistant - Edinburgh EH16

Location: SPACE, 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT

Rate: £12.60 - £13.23 per hour

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time, Part Time

Hours: 30 hours per week

At Capability Scotland, our mission is to deliver the highest quality services, tailored to the individual needs of disabled people. We work in partnership to create innovative solutions which enable our people to achieve their goals. We put our customers and learners at the heart of everything we do and will make sure their voices are heard loud and clear.

We are looking to recruit Community Living Assistants for our Craigmillar service based in Edinburgh. The role involves supporting people with a range of disabilities in our spacious day centre setting, which supports 22 adult customers and offers craft, digital, sewing, art, and baking & cooking groups along with excellent links to our surrounding community.

You will be supporting our customers with either 1-1 or group care; your day will include helping them with their personal care, dressing, medication, communication, mobility, mealtimes, and participating in their chosen interactive activities including swimming, going to the gym, dancing, or “music for all” groups. The variety of community-based activities you would support aims to meet our customers' individual needs and outcomes, incorporating the use of assistive technology.

What you need to know:

• Hours: Up to 30 hours per week. Our day support services are between 9am-3pm Monday – Friday, with an expectation that you would support with shift cover (day/back and nightshift) in short break respite services (as overtime/additional hours).
• Location: SPACE, 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT (Respite services are based in Chesser & Hailsland Park – Edinburgh EH14). Please note that this role requires travel throughout the Edinburgh area to support our customers with community-based/social activities.
• Drivers preferred but not essential; we welcome applications from drivers, but we can consider non-drivers. If you do need to go out and about with our customer for that dinner and cinema trip, your costs are covered.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• A generous salary of £19,708.92 (£12.60ph)
• Fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• 32 days' holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
• Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
• Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
• Up to 3 x annual salary death in service.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 24/7 employee assistance programme.
• Qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts.

Applying to Capability Scotland:

Applying to join our family is easy. At the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to our hiring service. You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date. We’ll invite successful candidates to an interview so we can learn more about what makes each other tick, in a safe and secure way.

You can keep track of your application in your profile management settings. For more information on this role, you can call Lucy on 07841 499 729 using reference CS290525.

Capability Scotland is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are happy to consider job-share applications. Capability Scotland is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people and conducts thorough pre-employment checks on all preferred candidates.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, we advise that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply to work with us.