Community Support Worker - MOR11406 in Elgin

To work with and provide care and support to individuals with a range of disabilities or frailties who may exhibit a variety of challenging behaviours posing a range of physical and emotional challenges, or require urgent care.

Requirements

• To promote the independence and develop skills for individuals.
• Provide assistance and guidance/training to individuals in all household tasks.
• Assist individuals to manage all areas of finance, bank account, benefits, budgeting.
• Enable individuals to develop social skills and integrate as fully as possible into their Community.
• To work in different locations and services within Moray Council.
• To uphold social work values, to ensure good working practice including understanding and awareness of health and safety.
• To work positively with other agencies, parents, carers, and other services to ensure a quality provision of care for service users.
• Develop and contribute to the maintenance of individual’s records and support plans and act as a key worker when required.

General Duties

• To participate in regular and ongoing training and team meetings relevant to the needs of the individuals.
• Be aware and follow the Health and Safety guidelines at all times.

The Individual

• Experience which would give insight into working with adults with a learning disability, Mental Health or Challenging Behaviour.
• Ability to demonstrate a satisfactory level of literacy and numeracy.
• Mandatory SSSC registration for new and existing staff.
• Willingness to undertake SVQ qualification.
• Budgeting skills.
• Ability to undertake household skills to a required standard.
• Ability to record information accurately.
• Self confident and self motivated.
• Active listening and verbal communication skills for effective interaction with individual and staff at all levels.
• Ability to resolve problems and cope with day to day pressures.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Ability to work independently and/or as part of an effective team.
• Confident approach to challenging situations.
• Ability to encourage and enable individual.
• A positive and supportive attitude to individual.
• Effective organisational skills including time management.
• Full Driving licence, you will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Moray to meet the operational requirements of the service.
• Calm, patient and non-judgemental attitude.
• Appreciation, acceptance of and a commitment to the importance of confidentiality.
• Willing to accept direction/delegation.
• Must be physically able to undertake a range of movements when carrying out personal care and domestic tasks.
• Must be able to handle equipment/people in accordance with moving and handling regulations.
• Flexibility to meet the needs and demands of the service.

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 within 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.