- Advertised from 28th June 2024
- Hours and schedule to be agreed for work up to 31st March 2025, £18.90 per hour.
Role
We are looking for a sessional worker to someone to promote and deliver Lead’s Perth and Kinross Tenants Digital Project. This is a digital skills service to support tenants to be able to access information and council services online and use digital media to participate in communities and tenancy related involvement opportunities
- Perth and Kinross Tenants Digital Project – support people who are disabled, unpaid carers and others who are digitally excluded to learn relevant digital skills matching their motivation to learn. The sessional worker will support tenants to build confidence and skills use of support and information services, through confidence building, one to ones, group learning, involvement events, tailored programmes, provision of digital devices and bespoke assistance. The time commitment in hours per week will be agreed by negotiation but is likely to be around 25 to 30 hours per week flexibly worked up to 31st March 2025, agreed mileage will be included.
The work is mostly in person working in a peripatetic way using local community venues and learner’s own homes to deliver learning. Home office for Administration base.
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 the local authority areas to meet one to one and group learner demand.
This role involves regulated work for which a satisfactory PVG will be required. Lead Scotland has a Recruiting People with Convictions Policy.
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
Recruitment paperwork is kept for 6 months before it is destroyed. Please complete our anonymous equal opportunities form to help us ensure we are attracting a broad range of candidates.
How to apply:
1. Answer the questions in this online application form. This will help us assess your approach and transferable skills for this specific role and replaces a cover letter.
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2. Email your CV to recruitment@lead.org.uk.
Our website has the job description and more information.
If you have any further queries about the role, please email recruitment@lead.org.uk.
Closing Date: Noon 15th July 2024
Interviews: Week beginning 22nd July 2024.
Lead Scotland is a charity which provides learning, befriending and helpline services for disabled people and carers. Charity no. SC003949
Support Workers
- Part time
- Sessional
- Remote: Edinburgh, the Lothians, Glasgow, Isle of Wight
- Closing 30th May 2025
Working in Care and Support Services
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated staff to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.
About you
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. The people we support want our team to be friendly, reliable and practical.
If you have experience in supporting people in their own homes, tenancies, or a care home setting, that is beneficial. If you do not, we can provide training. We always provide on the job and formal training, and our workers often go on to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you already have knowledge of BSL that is a bonus, however we can provide training if you do not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.
The role
We have varied roles within our Care and Support Services such as Care at Home support worker, Outreach Support worker in our services in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Glasgow; as well as Care and ancillary positions at our Care Home at Isle of Wight.
You will be delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within our services. This will enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities in the care home, in their own home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
What do we offer?
- Living Wage Employer - £12 per hour
- Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured. Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme
- Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
- Training to learn British Sign Language at Level 1 and 2
- Death in service benefit.
Support Workers & Relief Support Workers
- Part time
- £21,239 – £21,567 pro-rata
- : Edinburgh
- Closing 7th July 2024
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 various vacancies available including 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 various permanent and casual vacancies available.
• £21,239 - £21,567 per annum, pro rata based on a 35 hour working week
• Relief/ Casual pay rate- £11.67 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
About The Role
Do you have a passion for helping people?
Do you have excellent communication?
Do you have the ability to drive high performing teams whilst ensuring a high-quality service, delivering excellent customer service to our clients?
Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?
Would you like to contribute to helping people with barriers to work find their dream job?
Then come and work for Enable Works.
Your role, as a Performance Manager will be to manage the performance and quality of our contracts in Glasgow and the surrounding area. You will be responsible for performance management; key to this will be developing positive professional relationships with our staff teams and programme partners in each area.
Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.
Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 29 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.
We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.
We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.
Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.
About You
We really need you to have these:
- Experience of working in a performance focused team.
- Ability to effectively coach and motivate teams to achieve high performance.
- Effective project management skills and ability to think strategically to achieve long-term goals.
- A natural, professional relationship builder with the ability to partner and negotiate with stakeholders.
- Experience of delivering on financial expectations and forecasting change.
- Strong attention to detail with professional presentation and personality.
- Self-management skills and the ability to meet duties effectively within agreed timescales.
- Confident communicator.
- Role model.
- IT Literacy.
- Some knowledge of the local community.
- A full driving licence and access to a car.
Why?
Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high-quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there.
You will understand that each client has individual skills and aspirations and you will work with your team to ensure they are supporting our clients to progress towards their chosen career goal whilst recognising our commitment to our funders in terms of both performance and financial targets.
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
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.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
Starting a career with Enable 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 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.
At Tiphereth we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Day Service Co-Worker in our Compost and Firewood Social Enterprise.
Tiphereth is a Camphill community in Edinburgh offering supported accommodation, social enterprises and day services for adults with learning disabilities and other support needs.
The post is based in the Day Service group that is part of a social enterprise involving producing and delivering compost and firewood including a new venture in Milling wood for use in furniture making and other applications. The group also collects the green waste from the local area weekly. Together with our members with support needs we aim to support work within our own community as well as in the wider Colinton area community.
You will provide support and motivation to people with learning disabilities and other support needs to participate in meaningful work within the group. You will be enthusiastic and positive about the potential of people to participate, learn and grow. You will bring experience of support work and outdoor work. You need to work well as part of a team, have good communication skills and be motivated by Camphill’s values and ethos.
We offer:
• 36 days annual leave (Pro-rata), rising with time served to 40 days (Pro-rata)
• Private Medical Insurance (on successful completion of probation)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• A contributory pension scheme
• Extensive training and development programme and career progression
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