Support Practitioner

7 months ago

North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom Turning Point Scotland Full time

Job Description

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**Service: North Lanarkshire**

**Based: North Lanarkshire**

**Hours**:Full & Part-Time Available**

**Salary: £11.08 - £11.58 per hour, rising to £11.30 in your first year of service**

**Annual**:£21,318 - £22,285** (pro-rata)**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Because People Matter - Work with Us**:
Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

Our Turning Point Scotland Services in North Lanarkshire support services are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

**Turning Point Scotland North Lanarkshire**

Since 2013 the Turning Point Scotland, North Lanarkshire Support Services have worked in close partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, North Lanarkshire HSCP and the relevant social work departments to empower people to take control and make decisions about their own care and support.

The Turning Point Scotland North Lanarkshire service predominantly provides self-directed support, which allows individual to have and use their own budgets which has been personally allocated to help people with a variety of needs including Physical and/or learning disabilities, autism and Asperger’s syndrome, acquired brain injury, early onset dementia, Huntingdon’s disease, mental health conditions and people who may have complex support needs and/or forensic histories to get the support most appropriate to their requirements.

Our service principal is to promote independence and choice and to work with the people we support to enable them to lead the life they choose. We will support people to access ordinary life experiences including education, employment and social activities as well as providing support to sustain and develop relationships and skills for everyday living including budgeting, personal care and domestic skills for the person to maintain their own home.

We currently have 52 staff who support 31 individuals, 7 of these are forensic services, this is a developing focus for us in the North Lanarkshire service and is being done in conjunction with North Lanarkshire Council.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

As a Support Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

Full details of this role can be viewed on the attached Job Role Profile. Click here

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
- Benefits package
Turning Point Scotland have
**Platinum accreditation** in
**Investors in People**. Our staff are our most important asset, therefore we offer extensive training and impressive personal and career-focused development opportunities. You could be part of an organisation that not only offers excellent careers but makes a real difference to thousands of People’s lives and achieve your own personal fulfilment.
- Comprehensive Induction
- 123 Learning and development courses
- 29 eLearning courses
- Funded qualification - SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
- Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
- Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
- Wide range of family friendly policies
- 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
- Additional information

This is a driver essential post.
- Does this position require a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle?
Yes
- Does the post include personal care?
Yes
- Does the post include cooking and housekeeping skills?
Yes
- Will the service users be involved in this process?
No
- Contact name & details
If you would like to chat about any aspect of the role, please call our Recruitment & Engagement Team on 0808 1643100.

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