Relief Support Worker

2 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Capability Scotland Full time

Can you help us with our ongoing mission?

At Capability Scotland, our mission is to deliver the highest quality services, tailored to the individual needs of disabled people. We work in partnership to create innovative solutions which enable our people to achieve their goals. We put our customers and learners at the heart of everything we do and will make sure their voices are heard loud and clear.

We love what we do here and are looking to recruit Support Worker for our Stanmore Residential services based in Lanark.

The role – Support Worker

Stanmore House Residential acts as both a boarding element to Stanmore House School and a residential and respite service for the children of Scotland. The young people we support are aged between 5 & 20 with a variety of complex disabilities. You would support them to live independently in our bright, fully adapted, residential & school campus based in the outskirts of Lanark.

Our 4 bungalows can host up to 16 young people in total. You will be supporting our customers on either one-to-one or group care; your day will include helping them with their personal care, dressing, medication, mobility, mealtimes, attending school & appointments and participating in their chosen recreational activities for that day.

What you need to know

Hours: Up to Relief/bank hours. Covering a mix of dayshift (7.30am-3pm), backshifts (2.30pm-10pm) and nightshifts (9.45pm-8.45am).

Location: Stanmore House Residential, Stanmore Road, Lanark, ML11 7RR

Job Description:

Support Worker (Children)

Don’t let concerns over experience or availability hold you back. We have several growing services across Scotland and are happy to consider any availability – apply now and see if we can work with yours

Drivers preferred but not essential, whilst we welcome applications from drivers due to the rural location of our services, we can consider non drivers. If you do need to go out and about with our customer for that dinner and cinema trip, your costs are covered.

Capability Scotland’s benefits:

A generous salary of £22,.00 FTE / £12.06 ph (or £12.35 per hour, dependent on qualifications) We recognise and reward qualified employees offering £12.35 per hour for those qualified at SVQ3 or above. Where nightshifts are available, we offer a generous rate of - £12.66 - £12.97 (dependent on qualifications) To help you achieve this qualification, we offer a fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life Most services offer, set 2, 3, 4 and 6 weeks rolling or monthly rotas so you always know when you are working and can plan life outside of work 32 days’ holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service Free PVG checks throughout your employment Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme Up to 3 x annual salary death in service Perks at Work – shopping discount scheme Cycle to work scheme 24/7 employee assistance programme Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts

We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability.

Want to be part of this? Apply now

Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued, and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, we advise that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply to work with us.



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