- Advertised from 25th July 2022
- Hours and schedule to be agreed for work up to 31st March 2023, £18.90 per hour
Role
About the role:
We seek a sessional worker to work across two projects in Dundee:
• Dundee Learning Project: deliver non formal and formal learning programmes one to one and in small groups. The time commitment in hours per week will be agreed by negotiation but is likely to be 7 hours per week flexibly worked.
• Dundee Carers Digital Project– support carers to learn relevant digital skills matching their motivation to learn. Operating a drop-in digital support service at Dundee Carers centre. The time commitment in hours per week will be agreed by negotiation but is likely to be 3.5 hours per week flexibly worked.
This post is home-based. The work will be in Dundee and will mostly be in person working in a peripatetic way using local community venues as bases to meet learners. You will be working alongside our Dundee Learning Coordinator on both projects.
It is regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required.
About you:
You will be passionate about the transformative power of digital skills, digital confidence, and adult learning. You will be confident in communicating one-to-one and with groups and have a flexible and creative approach to problem-solving.
You will be enthusiastic with good organisational skills and have previous experience of supporting people experiencing a range of barriers to enhance and improve their basic digital skills and cyber safety. You will be capable of working one-to-one with learners, and of tailoring and delivering learning programmes. The role involves travelling throughout Dundee.
Applications from disabled people:
Lead has Disability Confident status, and we encourage applications from disabled people. All disabled people meeting the minimum requirements will get a guaranteed interview. Information about our commitment to recruit disabled people is available on our website. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in the online form. This will in no way disadvantage you in the recruitment process. All job application information can be made in alternative formats on request, including braille, large print and audio and people can make applications in alternative formats.
Application notes
How to apply:
1. Answer the questions in this online form. This will help us assess your approach and transferable skills for this specific role.
2. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form
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3. Email your CV to recruitment@lead.org.uk.
Job description and additional information available here.
Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.
If you have any further queries about the role, please email recruitment@lead.org.uk
Closing Date: 5.00pm, Monday 15th August 2022.
Interviews: Week beginning 22nd August 2022.
Lead Scotland is a charity which provides learning, befriending and helpline services for disabled people and carers. Charity no. SC003949
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Support Workers / Relief Support Workers
- Full time or Part time
- £20,566 – £20,875
- Edinburgh
- Closing 9th June 2023
Support Workers - £11.30-£11.47 per hour. Full-time, Part-time and relief opportunities available
Relief Support Workers- £11.30 per hour.
We are currently looking to recruit support workers to join our small team within Inclusion Alliance. The role involves supporting people with learning disabilities to be included in the community and lead an ordinary life. Your work would involve helping people to access educational, social, leisure and work or volunteering opportunities in the community.
No experience or formal qualifications are necessary for the role although a caring nature, positive attitude and a sense of fun are important characteristics to have. New staff will receive paid training and undertake shadow shifts with experienced staff members during induction. We want new staff to feel ready and able to work prior to working on their own for the first time.
We have full-time, part time and relief/casual positions in various locations throughout Edinburgh.
- Working hours are based between the hours of 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
- We have full-time, 35hrs per week, part-time and casual vacancies available.
- £20,020 - £20,329 per annum, pro rata based on a 35- hour working week
- Relief/ Casual pay rate- £11 per hour
Candidates must be caring, motivated and have excellent communication skills whilst being committed to working in a person-centred way ensuring that support is built around the supported person’s wishes and needs.
Benefits include
- Employer contributory pension scheme
- Funded SVQ 3 qualification and learning opportunity
- Paid annual leave entitlement
- Regular paid supervision sessions
- Regular training and development opportunities
- Daytime Monday to Friday working
- Working for a well-established small organisation where person centred values are at the core.
- Free 24/7 access to employee support app
Residential Care Worker
- Full time
- £28,923 – £31,025
- Cannan Lane, Morningside, Edinburgh
- Closing 31st March 2023
We are looking for kind, caring, creative, forward thinking and dedicated people to join our team offering care and support to children and young adults with visual impairment and complex needs within our residential houses in Morningside in Edinburgh.
If you want to make a difference to the lives of people living with sight loss and you have an HNC in Social Care plus all eight SVQ 3 units or an equivalent qualification for registration with the SSSC or other professional body please apply now, we would love to hear from you.
The role is advertised as full time however we will consider part time and flexible working patterns.
If you would like more information on the role or our residential service, please contact samantha.hood@sightscotland.org.uk
Posts are subject to PVG Scheme Record/Update.
If you require any of the information relating to this role in an alternative format, please email people@sightscotland.org.uk
Please note we cannot provide VISA sponsorship for this role.
About us
We're one of Scotland's oldest charities - for more than two centuries, we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We're proud of all we've achieved in the past - but we have our sights set firmly on the future.
We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.
We are seeking a Full-Time staff member who shares our values and has the experience and skills to support adults with autism and learning disabilities, within their homes (Supported Living), to access meaningful work, and to have fun and develop relationships.
Previous experience of working with adults with learning disabilities is essential, as is a good understanding of autism and the needs of people who use different forms of communication and a confidence in working with people with behaviour that challenges.
Tiphereth is a Camphill community based on the edge of the Pentland hills in Edinburgh supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism in a range of day services, supported living, residential care, and social enterprises.
Key Tasks
• To build relationships with people using a person-centred approach founded on dignity and respect for individuality, and that enables choice and control
• To provide shared support, 1:1 and 2:1 support.
• To work positively with any behaviours of concern.
• To provide care and support with personal / intimate care tasks, administering medication safely, assisting a person’s mobility safely including using equipment, supporting meals, social activities, outings and attending appointments.
• To support people to live in a rich environment, manage a tenancy and build a home.
• To share and support members with daily cleaning tasks and maintain safe and aesthetically pleasing working/living environments
• To support people to participate as fully as possible in tasks and activities that interest and engage them, developing skills and a sense of purpose and value
• To act as keyworker for some people taking a lead role in ensuring outcomes, support plans and risk assessments are reviewed at least every 6 months.
• To build good relations with families, carers, and other relevant professionals.
• To plan, organise and facilitate group and individual activities
• To work as an effective member of a team following agreed procedures, and contributing to professional discussions and a positive team working environment
• Support members both inside the home, but also to utilise the outside spaces, supporting gardening, growing vegetable and plants, and enjoying nature.
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Trainee Habilitation Specialist
- Full time
- £22,000
- Scotland, Northern Ireland, North of England
- Closing 26th March 2023
We currently have several Trainee Habilitation Specialist vacancies advertised. Please only submit one application; this should be to your preferred location. If invited to interview, you will be given the opportunity to express interest in other locations.
As this role requires an Enhanced Disclosure check job offers will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory check.
As a Trainee Habilitation Specialist, you will contribute, as a full-time member of staff, to the services delivered by the Scotland team whilst successfully completing all elements of the 2-year Graduate Diploma in Habilitation and Disabilities of Sight (Children and Young People).
The content of the training will be covered through a mix of on the job, and off the job training.
On the job training will be provided by Guide Dogs as part of the habilitation team in the role of Trainee Habilitation Specialist. Off the job training will be covered by the University course, delivered by University College London (UCL), key details of which are below.
University College London Course key dates:
Application deadline date (if successful, applications must be made to UCL by this date): 30th June 2023
Course dates: UCL Starting in September 2023, 2-year course.
Successful applicants will be required to apply to, and be accepted by, University College London for Graduate Diploma in Habilitation and Disabilities of Sight (Children and Young People) course.
The applications need to be submitted after a job offer has been made and accepted and before 30th June to increase the chance of gaining a place on the course. Places on the University course are limited for the September 2023 start date and offers will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Positions are not held back for Guide Dogs employees.
More information on the course can be found here:
Note: Guide Dogs will pay the tuition fees as part of the position of Trainee Habilitation Specialist.
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