• Support Worker - LinkLiving

  Created: 23/09/2024
  News/Events Category: Job Vacancies
  
  
  

  Post: Support Worker (Supported Living)

  Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday + Saturday on a rota basis)

  Salary: £23,756 - £24,938 per annum (dependent on skills and experience)

  Location: The office base of the position is West Bridge Mill, Kirkcaldy, but the location is West Fife and requires lone working in the community

  
  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)
  • 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. Link 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

  This service provides individually tailored visiting support to people with a range of complex needs living across Fife. This is a long-term service with individual support packages funded through social work spot contracts. In this role, you will be supported to work using a person-centred and trauma informed approach and develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of problems, supporting them to cope in difficult times and working towards a good life. You will provide emotional, practical and social support to enable people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives. Your role may involve liaising with other agencies that may be involved with the person you are supporting, advocating on their behalf, and accessing professional help if required and appropriate. As this role is Fife wide, driving is a requirement of this role.

  For a comprehensive list of the essential and desirable criteria required for this post, please click here. 

  What's in it for you?

  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 

  Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within three months of their start date and be registered within six months.

  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.

  Further Information

  Interested? If you have any questions about the role, please e-mail [email protected] and they can arrange for someone from the service to call you for an informal chat.

  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 

  If you're thinking about working in adult social care, download the Guide to adult social care jobs in Scotland for in-depth information on everything you need to know to get started. In addition, you can enrol on a free, online 6 week part-time tutor-supported 'Introduction to a Career in Social Care' course. The course introduces the area of social care and can be a stepping-stone to employment or further training.

  How to Apply

  To complete an application form, please click here. Instructions on how to complete the form are at the top of the page.

  Link can offer suitable alternative methods to apply if requested including although not exclusively; hard copy, Braille and audio. You can request these by e-mailing their Resourcing Team at [email protected] and detailing which format you would require.

  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. Link 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 our commitment to inclusion. Their 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 13 October 2024. Interviews will be held on Monday 21 October 2024 at their office in Kirkcaldy.

  
  
  

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