Flexible Care Support Worker in Elgin

To support individuals involved with the Justice Service by addressing the issues which contribute to their offending through relational and practical means, ie. housing, health, employment, education, benefits.

Offer emotional and motivational support to remain or reintegrate into their local community and engage with partner agencies.

To support women who are required to undertake hours of unpaid work in the community in a group or 1:1 setting. To monitor completion of these hours within identified timescales, while promoting opportunities for learning and personal development.

It is an occupational requirement that applications are open to women only, as permitted under schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.

Responsibilities

• Assist people in the wider community in conjunction with identified partner agencies, in particular women who have contact with the Justice Service.
• To work with Social Workers and other members of the team to ensure relevant sections of Case Management/Action plans are followed and implemented.
• Support, develop and sustain appropriate health, education, employment or social opportunities to contribute to and meet identified needs in conjunction with others as appropriate.
• Support individuals to achieve their identified outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with other workers and agencies.
• Assist in the development, set up and delivery of Group Work.

The Individual

• Experience of working with adults and young people who require support to enable them to live healthy lifestyles.
• Experience of working with women who have experienced domestic abuse and/or sexual violence.
• Experience of multi-agency working, in particular in a domestic abuse or child/adult protection setting.
• Educated to standard grade or equivalent in English.
• HNC Social Care.
• A willingness to undertake training.
• Able to communicate well verbally and in writing at times.
• An ability to work alone without close supervision.
• Ability to develop positive interagency working.
• Awareness and ability to work in accordance with GDPR.
• Organisational and time management skills.
• Experience of supporting individuals to identify and achieve identified goals.
• Good IT skills, specifically Microsoft Word/Outlook.
• Capacity to establish productive working relationships with families and professional staff.
• Calm, patient and non-judgemental attitude.
• The capacity to de-escalate stressful situations.
• Capacity to deal with other professionals.
• Flexible working hours to meet the needs and demands of the service.
• The capacity to handle stressful situations.
• You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the Service. Due to the rural nature of Moray this is normally undertaken by use of a car.
• This post is considered to be a ‘Regulated Role’ under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Under the Act it is a legal requirement for an individual undertaking a regulated role with children or protected adults to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.
• Therefore, the successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check prior to any formal offer of employment being made by Moray Council.