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Team Facilitator

  • Full time
  • £28,268
  • East Lothian
  • Closing 30th April 2022


  • Advertised from 6th April 2022
  • 39 hours per week. Permanent

Role

Driver and own car essential

As a Team Facilitator with ENABLE Scotland your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

  • Leading teams of Personal Assistants to provide individualised support for each and every person in your designated area
  • Writing and updating individualised support plans for the people whose support you are responsible for
  • Providing direct support such as personal care, support in the home and support to access the community as and when required Line Management of Personal Assistants. This can include:
    • Rota management
    • Support & supervision
    • Absence management
    • Identifying training needs
  • Working with your local administration team to ensure their support of the services you are responsible for. This can include:
    • Monitoring staff training
    • Keeping them up to date of changes within your staff teams i.e. leavers, change of contracted hours, change of service.
    • Monitoring finances of the people we support
    • Taking part in an out of hours ‘on call’ rota
    • Working with your local internal recruitment consultant to identify vacancies and interview potential new personal assistants

You will never understand the role of a Personal Assistant fully if you have never ‘walked in their shoes’. Therefore, if successful in your application, you will be required to work on shift providing direct support. This will help you get to know the people you support, the Personal Assistants and what is expected of them.

About You

Do you have management experience in Retail, Finance, Hospitality, Administration, or any other sector out with social care?

Whilst it is desirable for you to have some social care experience, we truly value a person’s values over any experience.

Respect, Integrity, Equality, Ethical and Ambition. These values are not unique to social care but they are of the highest importance to ENABLE Scotland and it’s members.

If you can see yourself in this list of values then we would love to speak to you!

As well as having these values at your very core, it is also essential that you have:

  • Resilience
  • Positive attitude
  • Empathy
  • Experience in managing teams
  • Good time management
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Full driving license and access to own vehicle
  • Willingness to work towards social care qualifications including the equivalent to an SVQ3 in Health and Social Care

About Us

At ENABLE Scotland we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities. These include, but are not limited to:

  • Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
  • Introduction to autism
  • Epilepsy awareness
  • Moving and Handling
  • Adult support and protection
  • Child support and protection
  • First Aid
  • Positive Behaviour Support

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

  • Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Season Ticket Loans
  • Generous 'Refer a Friend' Scheme

Starting a career with ENABLE Scotland is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

ENABLE Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Note: The successful applicant will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and pay the appropriate annual fee within 6 months of their start date.

Application notes

To find out more and to apply, please visit our website.