Support Practitioner

Post: Support Practitioner

Service: Renfrewshire Learning Disabilities Services

Based: Renfrewshire

Hours: Full Time 37hrs & Part-Time Available

Annual: £25,877 (Pro-Rata)

Contract Permanent

Are you ready to give back to your community?

Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

Our Turning Point Scotland Services in Renfrewshire are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

Could you make someone’s day in Renfrewshire a little easier? The individuals who use our services need support 24 hours a day. This will require you to be available for various shifts and sleepovers. We work a 37-hour working week, not a 40-hour week. We appreciate your time so we pay an additional £107.60 per sleepover shift. A driving licence is not essential but, if you use your car for work purposes, we pay you for your work travel time and the costs for public transport or if you have a car, we pay 45p per mile.

Being the largest learning disability services provider in Scotland with a large staff team allows us the pleasure of implementing our award-winning family friendly policies allowing us to offer flexible working to suit you work/life balance. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Coupled with our generous annual leave package you can enjoy an excellent work/life balance.

Our services in Renfrewshire are well regarded and we have a waiting list for people to be supported by us.

About You

No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team!

Renfrewshire Learning Disability Services – Mile End and Weavers Mill

Turning Point Scotland’s Renfrewshire Learning Disability Services deliver a Care at Home and Housing Support service for a large number of people who have learning and physical disabilities living across the Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire areas. The accommodation includes 2 core and cluster services. Individuals who are supported by the service live either on their own or share with others. Individual’s homes are located throughout Renfrewshire. Most people receive 24 hour support.

The staff who work in Renfrewshire Learning Disability services are committed to ensuring that individuals are always included in the development, implementation and review of their personal life plans. The ethos of the service is to assist people to meet their personal, social, educational and domestic aspirations in accordance with Keys to Life. Our staff work in a person centred, outcome focussed manner, working in partnership with Renfrewshire Council Social Work Department and community healthcare teams will ensure peoples’ support needs are fully met.

We are registered with the Care Commission and work in partnership with a number of external agencies i.e. Social Work Department, Community Learning Disability Teams, and Housing Associations etc.

The individuals we support are provided with the opportunity to become involved in their local and surrounding community. Our management structure, together with the administration team enables us to monitor closely the service we provide. All our staff, regardless of their position, receive extensive training which enables them to carry out their job to a high standard.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

As a Support Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

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We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

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Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date