• Assistant Project Worker - LinkLiving

  Created: 02/04/2025
  News/Events Category: Job Vacancies
  
  
  

  Post: Assistant Project Worker (Older Persons' Service)

  Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

  Location: West Bridge Mill, Kirkcaldy 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? At LinkLiving, 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 Role

  The Older Persons' Service addresses loneliness and social isolation among older people through volunteer befriending, social cafes, and the Help to Stay at Home service.The service promotes social inclusion opportunities for isolated and lonely vulnerable older people, by providing 1:1 support in people's own homes. Many of these older people have a dementia diagnosis and the regular contact that this service will bring will make a real difference to their day-to-day 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, collection of prescriptions, support to attend appointments, shopping trips and social outings. The purpose of the job is to provide this much-needed light touch support to our elderly service users while working closely with the project workers and volunteers to support the people who receive the 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
  • Knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting older people, including dementia.
  • Ability to work openly and honestly in a team setting and be able to prioritise your own caseload
  • A valid driver's license and access to a car that can be used daily to travel between services as required, this is essential

  What They Offer

  The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee include:

  • Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards
  • 35 days' holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional 3 days pro rata after 3 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
  • Life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
  • Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing
  • 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

  Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within 3 months of their start date and be registered within 6 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.

  How to Apply

  If you have any questions about the role, please e-mail [email protected] to 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.

  To complete an application form, please go their website.

  LinkLiving offer alternative methods to apply if requested including hard copy, Braille and audio. You can request these by emailing their Resourcing Team at [email protected] and detailing which format you would require. 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. The 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 211.59pm on Sunday 13 April 2025. Interviews are being held on Tuesday 22 April 2025 at their office in Kirkcaldy.

  
  
  

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