Senior Social Care Worker – Supervisors are responsible for providing support to individuals in a variety of settings ensuring a high standard of service delivery of support to individuals to live well through their own strengths, skills, community, personal gifts and people who play a key role in their life.
The Senior Social Care Worker – Supervisor role includes ensuring that individuals receive high standards of care and support in accordance with relevant legislation and national guidance associated with the service. You will be responsible for providing person-centred support and maintaining a positive ethos that promotes people’s independence within their personal capabilities and outcomes.
The purpose of the job is to assist with all tasks associated with managing delivery and development of the service including the supervision, coaching and development of staff, and to actively participate in the provision and facilitation of person-centred planning to support outcomes. To ensure the service is providing for the health and wellbeing of people who use the service.
Children and Young People’s Residential Care and Short Breaks for Children are part of the Children’s Social Work service, within the Children’s Services Directorate of the Council. This includes Through Care and After Care (TCAC) services to young people who have been looked after. The aim of this service is to provide a nurturing and safe environment for children and young people, giving security, valuing each individual and supporting them to grow, both physically and emotionally, to realise their potential. Residential care for children and young people is a unique, complex and challenging area of work, and requires a compassionate and competent staff team to meet the individual needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma in their lives.
More detail is provided in the Job Profile, Person Specification and Conditions of Service Summary attached to the bottom of this advert.
During the application process you are required to give the names of two persons not related to you, who we can contact to provide a reference to support your application.
This post is based at Laburnum House, Lerwick, Shetland.
For further details relating to this post, please contact: Kelly Tait, Registered Manager, Telephone 07904804991 or email [email protected]
If you have a disability which prevents you from applying online, please call 01595 744032.
If you’re a kind, compassionate person who’d like to make a difference to people’s lives, then social care could be the right career for you.
https://www.shetland.org/life/work/professions/social-care
Information about Shetland
Shetland is an archipelago in the north of the British Isles where you’ll find freedom, wildlife and wild beauty, but also a rich culture and dynamic, forward-looking society. The Islands have a thriving and diverse economy full of opportunities and offer residents the ideal work/life balance. Shetland combines stunning coastal landscapes and wide open spaces with friendly, bustling island communities. Factor in Shetland’s impressive modern amenities, highly regarded schools and the Islands offer a work life balance rarely found elsewhere.
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Living and working in Shetland: here
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