SWRK 5031 - G3 Enhanced Senior Social Care Worker (605547) in East Kilbride

Position Overview

Enhanced Senior Social Care Worker – Meldrum Gardens, East Kilbride.

Applications must be received by 20 July 2026 at 11:55pm.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to and manage crisis situations such as accidents, incidents and emergencies related to care of service users.
• Staff and oversee shift rotas, manage workload priorities, and address emergencies.
• Conduct direct observations of employee performance, identify good practice and areas for improvement.
• Perform daily safe checks on monies held, reporting discrepancies in line with financial procedures.
• Record incidents and significant events in service user case records, ensuring key stakeholders are updated and included in care planning.
• Ensure Senior Social Care Workers produce audit reports for health and safety inspections and respond to external audits such as Environmental Health and Fire Safety.
• Develop action plans and make decisions to address safety issues, collate information, and recommend actions and expenditures to the Unit Manager.
• Support the Manager in achieving health and social care objectives.
• Respond to and manage complaints involving the general public, employees, service users, and other services.
• Provide employee support by maximizing attendance and promoting employee assistance programmes.
• Location & Key Details

Benefits

• Enrolment in award-winning local government pension scheme.
• Option to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme to increase pension pot.
• Up to 33 days annual leave.
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days).
• Occupational sick pay.
• Family friendly policies – flexible working, leave, maternity/paternity leave and enhanced leave.
• Employee discounts, including cinema.
• Cycle to Work Scheme, physiotherapy, employee assistance programme offering practical and emotional support.
• Equal Opportunities and Inclusion

The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion.

We welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under‑represented groups such as disabled applicants, care‑experienced background, BAME, military service background and new Scots.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants meeting the essential criteria.

The Council also upholds the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award and guarantees an interview for service leavers meeting the criteria.

• Legal and Disclosure Requirements
• This post is excepted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020.
• This post is a Regulated Role with Adults under the Disclosure Scotland Act 2020; applicants barred from working with adults must not apply.
• Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo an update check before a formal offer.
• An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required for applicants born outside the UK or who have lived outside the UK for more than three months within the past ten years.

The check must be in English and include an official statement confirming no pending criminal record.

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