Senior Social Care Worker
Senior Social Care Worker
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£ 32437 - 40358
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Job Description
Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 12 May 2025
Closing Date: Thursday 8 May 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC7 32437..57 (ProRata)
Working Pattern: Various hours per week (The position involves working a period of early shifts late shifts and day shifts)
Location: Napier House Glenrothes or Lindsay House Lumphinnans
Preference of location will be taken into consideration and discussed at the interview stage.
Supporting Statement
As part of your application you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information check out theHow to Applysection of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload resum. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at Details
Older Peoples Services has 8 residential care homes across Fife with a team based in each service.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an additional enthusiastic Senior Social Care Worker to join our staffing team in Fife Councils Residential and Day Services at Lindsay House (Lumphinnans) and Napier House (Glenrothes). Preference will be taken into consideration and discussed at the interview stage.
We are looking for a motivated and driven individual with good values and a genuine interest in the care and support of Older People; with experience of care in a supervisory role within a highly complex yet rewarding environment.
The Senior Social Care Worker is a supervisory role with a focus on leading and coaching the care staff team and ensuring that best practice and high standards of care delivery are achieved role also requires the organising chairing and attending staff and other relevant meetings contributing to service development and finalising reports. Whilst this post is based at one of our residential homesour service expects all its staff move to other units to provide support when required.
Fife Council is committed to delivering services which are responsive reliable efficient and effective.
Residential and Day Services aim to provide a stimulating environment contributing to a range of social and recreational activities through personcentred working fully respecting the wishes and opinions expressed by service users and their carers or advocates and promote independence and social inclusion.
A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.
The Person
To ensure you achieve registration with the SSSC as part of theOlder Peoples Residential and Day Services requirementwithin 6 months of starting in a new role you mustapply for registration within 3 months of your start date on the register.
To maintain your registration you must hold or work towards the SSSC benchmark qualification for the role complete the required Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) for the role and submit an annual declaration via MySSSC.
The benchmark qualification for this role includes SVQ 3 or above. You must gain additional supervisory or management qualification containing supervision or management theory and practice suitable for a supervisor of a care service with a minimum of 15 credits at SCQF level 7 or more details about qualifications and timeframes go to you do not currently hold a benchmark qualification your registration will be granted subject to the condition that you achieve the required qualification within the timeframe defined by SSSC.
You will also provide care and support to individuals in a personcentred way which meets Health and Social Care standards.
Must be able to work with other Council services and partner agencies to support the effective planning and delivery of care and support within our service.
You should be able to work flexibly and creatively within a dynamic and ambitious team.
Before confirming to your appointment you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
As this role requires SSSC registration the successful applicant will have three months to apply for registration.
If appointed you must start your application as soon as possible so youre registered within the required six months. More details are included in the role profile.
Further Information
- Role Profile When preparing your supporting statement review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteriaRole Profile
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For Further Information Please Contact: Natasha Clarke at
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
