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LinkLiving - Assistant Project Worker
Created: 30/07/2024
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Assistant Project Worker (Older Persons Service)Hours: 22.5 per week (over 5 days, Monday to Friday)Location: This post is based at LinkLiving's Kirkcaldy office but involves regular travel throughout Fife.
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? Values and people are at the heart of everything LinkLiving do including how they recruit staff. It is important for them to find people who share thei 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
Link's Older Persons' Service addresses loneliness and social isolation amongst older people through volunteer befriending, social cafes, and their Help to Stay at Home service.
The Job
The Older Persons' Service promotes social inclusion opportunities for isolated and lonely vulnerable older people by providing 1:1 support in people's own homes. The regular contact that this service brings will make a real difference to an older person's life. Older people will ideally benefit emotionally through shared interests and experiences with their matched staff member and also through practical assistance, such as help with transport to health services including GP, dentist and hospital appointments, collection of prescription, support to attend appointments, shopping trips, and social outings.
The purpose of the job is to provide this much-needed support to our elderly service users while working closely with the project workers and volunteers to support the people who receive Link's services to become engaged and included within their communities.
About You
You will have good computer skills and the ability to use technology efficiently to maintain and update records, combined with a knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting older people. The successful candidate will be able to work openly and honestly in a team setting and have an ability to prioritise their own caseload. A valid driver's licence and access to a car that can be used daily to travel between services as required is essential for this role.
Benefits
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
- Opportunity to buy and sell holiday enhanced company sick and family friendly pay
- Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
- 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
- Access to an electric vehicle leasing scheme
- Subject to the terms of the scheme 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 wellbeing
- Annual flu vaccination
- Access to a savings and borrowing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Monthly bus pass scheme
- Season/travel ticket loan
For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - https://www.linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us
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 e-mail [email protected]
To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit their website at https://www.linkliving.org.uk
How to apply
Complete the application form on LinkLiving's website - https://www.linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us
They can offer suitable alternative methods to apply if request. E-mail [email protected] to make a request.
Please note 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. The terms and conditions are outlined in the job information pack. They aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and from anyone who shares their commitment to inclusion. Link's offices are fully accessible to wheelchair users and, as a Disability Confident Leader, they will interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.
The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 18 August 2024. Interviews are being held at Link's office in Kirkcaldy
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