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Support Worker - LinkLiving
Created: 27/01/2025
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: Support Worker (Fife Resettlement Support Service)Hours: 37.5 hours per week (primarily 9.00-5.00, Monday-Friday. Weekends and evenings may be required for the needs of the organisation)Salary: £23,400 - £25,673 per annum (dependent on skills and experience)Location: West Bridge Mill, Kirkcaldy + lone working in the communityAre 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!
LinkLiving's 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. 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
This role supports individuals and families who have come from war torn countries to settle and start afresh. In this role, you will be supported to work using a person-centred and trauma-informed approach and develop effective relationships with people from a range of backgrounds, supporting them to cope during difficult times and transitions and working towards a good life.
You will provide emotional, practical, and administrative support to enable people to live, settle, and start anew as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives. Your role will involve liaising with other agencies, advocating on their behalf, and accessing professional help if required and appropriate.
The Job
You will develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of challenges, supporting them to cope during difficult times, and enabling them to live a good life. You will provide emotional, practical, and administrative support to help people live as independently as possible and make information choices in all aspects of their lives. You will develop positive relationships with a range of partners, agencies, schemes, and companies to extend the breadth and quality of support available to the people that LinkLiving work with.
You will be part of a team while managing your own caseload and being a key worker for some of the people LinkLiving support. You'll take part in regular team meetings and receive regular support and supervision.
Driving is a requirement for this role, therefore a full driving licence and access to your own vehicle is essential.
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
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.
If you have any questions about the role, please e-mail [email protected] and they'll arrange for someone 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 six 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
Click here to complete an application online.
LinkLiving offer alternative methods to apply such as hard copy and Braille. To request one, please e-mail [email protected]
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 our commitment to inclusion.
LinkLiving'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 09 February 2025. Interviews will take place in their Kirkcaldy office.
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