Support Worker - Perth Residential

Position Type: Full Time, Part Time, Supply/Casual/Relief

Hours: 37 hours per week

Can you help us with our ongoing mission? 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 love what we do here and are looking to recruit Support Workers for our Tayview service based in Perth. The role involves supporting people with a variety of complex disabilities to live independently in our bright, spacious, purpose-built residential setting, with idyllic grounds and amazing facilities such as a hydrotherapy pool, rebound therapy and an accessible gym. It’s an exciting time to join and help us shape our big plans for our brand new facilities, which are coming soon.

You will be supporting our customers on either one-to-one or group care; your day will include helping them with their personal care, dressing, medication, mealtimes and participating in their chosen activities for that day. These include arts and crafts, games days on campus or trips to the cinema, shopping, or football.

What you need to know:

• Hours: Up to 37 hours per week. We are a 24/7 service, meaning we have a variety of shifts available on a 3 week rotation. Shifts may include early shifts, day shifts and/or back shifts. A 17-hour night shift post is also available. We can consider relief, part time and full-time applications for various hours.
• Location: Upper Springland Campus, Isla Road, Perth, PH2 7HQ.
• Social care experience essential. Please refer to our careers page for roles which do not require experience.
• Drivers preferred but not essential; while we welcome applications from drivers, 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.

Capability Scotland's benefits:

• A generous salary of up to £24,307.66 pa / £12.60 per hour
• A night shift premium rate of £13.23 per hour
• We offer a fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
• Most services offer set 2, 3, 4 and 6 weeks rolling or monthly rotas so you always know when you are working and can plan life outside of work.
• 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.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts.

Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued, and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

A copy of Capability Scotland's Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.

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.