Social Care Worker – Prevention Team, Home Care & Reablement Full Time

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Social Care Worker 
Prevention Team, Home Care & Reablement

Salary: £22,185 – £24,590 per year

Hours: 36 per week

An exciting opportunity is available to those who would like to come and join us as
Social Care Workers within the Home Care and Reablement Service.

Our Home Care and Reablement services provide support to the citizens of Edinburgh in their own homes to enable them to achieve as much independence as they can. We operate seven days a week with a focus on supporting service users to regain or attain skills and abilities. This brings positive and life changing improvements to those we work with. We are looking for individuals who have experience of working in a care environment. We will provide you with training to enable you to undertake the role and assist you in developing your skills.

What does the role entail?
As a Social Care Worker within the service, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Community Nurses and Social Care professionals with the aim of supporting, motivating, and inspiring people to re-learn daily skills and enhance their quality of life. This may be required following a period in hospital or to prevent admission to hospital. You also have key worker responsibilities and are trained to undertake environment risk
assessments as well as regularly reviewing Personal Plan details.

We support employees to develop skills in a supported and professional environment and make a real difference to the lives of others. You will have access to training, with funded opportunities to obtain qualifications in Health and Social Care. For example, should you not already have your SVQ3 in Health and Social Care we will support and fund you to do so within an agreed timescale to enable you to register with the SSSC, which is a requirement of the role. This will create access to opportunities for career development in one of Health and Social Care Partnership’s largest services.

SSSC Registration – This post will require you to have obtained SSSC Registration within 6 months of employment.

This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and/or Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council.

We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. 

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