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LinkLiving - Support Worker
Created: 09/10/2023
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Support Worker
Hours: 37.5 per week (Monday to Friday - Saturday on a rota basis)
Location: This post is based at LinkLiving's Kirkcaldy office. However, the Service is split into East, Central and West covering the wider Fife area
Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working? You don't need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share LinkLiving's values, this could be the role for you!At LinkLiving, their values and people are at the heart of everything they do including how they recruit staff. It is important for them to find people who share their values, which are: Empathy (listen to and understand an individual's needs and circumstances), Respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated), Integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles), and Caring (show kindness and concern for others).
LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty, and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. They support people through a range of models including:
- Personal development and employability programmes
- Self-help coaching
- Supported accommodation
- Care at home
- Housing support
- Befriending
- Social cafes
The Service
The Fife Visiting Support Services, Short Term Housing Support work with people in their own homes, sheltered housing, and temporary accommodation in the community throughout Fife to help them live independently, therefore access to a car and a full driving licence are essential.
The Job
Short Term Housing Support are responsible for delivering a housing support service for up to six months to enable people to sustain their tenancy and live as independently as possible in their own homes. It is the Support Worker's responsibility to develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of challenges, support them to cope in difficult times, and enable them to live a good life. In doing so, to provide emotional, practical and social support to help people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives.
As a Support Worker in this service, you will support and assist service users to achieve outcomes in the following areas - income maximisation/managing, sustaining a tenancy, improved independent living skills, accessing specialist support, reducing isolation, improved mental health and wellbeing, and long term care at home.
Support Workers in the Fife Support Service, Long Term Care at Home are responsible for delivering a visiting care at home service to enable people to live as independently as possible in their own homes (which may include prompting of personal care and medication, where required, and help to enable people to develop practical household skills). The post holder will provide emotional support, to assist people to take part in activities that matter to them and help them engage with their community to reduce social isolation.
As a Support Worker in this service, you will support and assist service users to maximise their income and benefits. This might involve liaising with other agencies that may be involved with the service user, advocating on their behalf, and accessing professional help if required and appropriate. In addition, you will support service users to cope with the responsibilities of a tenancy and help them take responsibility for the safety of themselves and their home.
The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:
- Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards
- Subject to terms of the scheme 35 days' holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional three days pro rata after three years' service, with an opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- Temporary enhanced business travel mileage allowance to support employees with increased fuel costs
- Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities and funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
- Defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
- Life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
- Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
- Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial well-being
- Discounted travel schemes including cycle to work scheme, monthly bus pass scheme and travel ticket loan and much more
Click here for a full list of benefits available to employees
Successful applicants will be required to register with SSSC within six months of their start date. This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.
If you have any questions about the role, please email [email protected]
If you are considering a career in social care but aren't sure what it involves or whether it's right for you, you can enrol in a free, online six week part-time tutor-supported 'Introduction to a Career in Social Care' course. The course provides an introduction to the area of social care and can be a stepping-stone to employment or further training.
Click here for a full job description and application. They offer alternative methods to apply if requested. You can request this by e-mailing [email protected]
Should an internal applicant be successful in applying for this position on either a seconded or permanent basis, they will move to the terms and conditions associated with the role for the duration of the time they are in post. Terms and conditions are outlined in the job information pack.
LinkLiving is an equal opportunities organisation, and they welcome applications from all sectors of the community. Their offices are fully accessible to wheelchair users and, as a Disability Confident employer, they will interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 22 October 2023.
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