Support Practitioner

Job Description

**Service: North Lanarkshire**

**Based: Coatbridge with travel across North Lanarkshire**

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

**Salary: £12.19 - £12.74 per hour, rising to £12.43 in your first year of service**

**Annual**:£23,450 - £24,514 (Pro-Rata)**

**Contract Permanent**

**CAREERS THAT CARE**

At Turning Point Scotland, we have opportunities for Support Practitioners to help make a positive impact for people, encouraging them to fulfil their lives with exciting and fun activities, pursue their hobbies and passions & creating memorable experiences.

**Due to the location of service, a driving license and car are essential**

**About the role**

This is an exciting opportunity for a Support Practitioner, unlike other support roles, with Turning Point Scotland, no two days are the same

Our Support Practitioner role will include:

- Helping to 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.
- Supporting individuals within the community and engaging with their hobbies and interests & empowering individuals to develop skills and independence, promoting their overall growth.
- Attending various community groups and accompanying our service users to attend activities they are passionate about, from taking a trip to the cinema, enjoying a morning swim or attending local groups or community projects, accompany on holidays and trips away with the individuals we support.
- Assist with personal care, ensuring their comfort and wellbeing.
- Celebrate achievements and milestones, both big and small, to create a rewarding and positive environment.

**About You**

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives. You will be supported by an incredibly approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. You will have flexibility to work on a rota.

No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team

**About Us - North Lanarkshire**

The North Lanarkshire service predominantly provides self-directed support, which allows individuals 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 and mental health conditions. Additionally, we support people who may have complex support needs and/or forensic histories.

Where there is a requirement for sleepover shifts, you will receive a separate sleepover payment of **£96.00**for every sleepover shift you work

If you are dedicated, compassionate, and enthusiastic about making a difference in the lives of vulnerable adults, we would love to hear from you.

In addition to your pay, you will also be paid for travel time from service to service at a rate of 45p per mile.

**Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the salary scale points.**

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- 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.
- 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.