SWRK - G3 Community Support Co-ordinator

Overview

Location:

Cambuslang Gate

Hours:

35 hours per week, fixed term and permanent post available.

Work Pattern:
Monday - Thursday 8.45am – 4.45pm, Friday 8.45am – 4.15pm.

Salary: £40,804 – £41,698 per year.

Final date to receive applications: 8th March 2026 at 11:55PM.

As a Community Support Co‑ordinator you will play a key role in the delivery of community services. You will manage care staff and deliver care services in line with Supporting Your Independence across South Lanarkshire Council
. You will oversee a team of Home Carers, demonstrating excellent organisational and communication skills, and manage the care for service users. You will work as part of a locality team assessing service users’ needs for care referrals and monitoring and reviewing care within agreed timescales. Excellent IT skills, dynamism and creative problem‑solving are required.

Applicants must hold a qualification that fully meets the SSSC Registration Requirements and obtain full SSSC registration within three months of commencing the post.

• Please study the job profile and provide examples of your work, or other activities which demonstrate your ability or aptitude to undertake the duties of the post, including any other information that you feel is relevant to your application, e.g. personal qualities, achievements at work, non‑work related or voluntary work experience.
• This role involves management, supervision and leading a team of staff who are dispersed.
• Describe in detail your experience of working with a dispersed group of staff, how you support and manage the team.
• South Lanarkshire Council are committed to delivering excellent customer service. Please describe how you would ascertain and manage client expectations, while still delivering excellent customer service.
• Please describe how you would ensure that Care at Home services are delivered in a way that meets national Health and Social Care standards.
• Provide an example of a situation where you identified risks for an individual service user or staff member.
• Describe what concerned you and why.
• Describe what your actions were and what the overall outcome was for the service user or staff member.
• Provide an example of a time where you worked with other teams and colleagues internally and externally to achieve an outcome for a service user.
• Who was involved.
• What roll did you play.
• What was the overall outcome.

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.
This post is considered Regulated Work with adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with adults.
Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.
An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants are born outside the UK or have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of three months in the past ten years. The check must be translated into English and include an official statement confirming no pending criminal record proceedings.

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community.
We are a Disability Confident Scheme Employer and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria of the person specification job description.
South Lanarkshire Council is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families, guaranteed an interview for those who meet the essential criteria of the person specification job description.

• Enrolment in award‑winning local government pension scheme.
• Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme option to increase pension pot.
• Up to 33 days annual leave.
• Up to 10 days public holiday entitlement.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Family‑friendly policies – flexible working, leave, maternity/paternity leave, enhanced leave.
• Employee discounts, including cinema.
• Support schemes such as Cycle to Work, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Programme.

Please apply online – all correspondence will be via your email address.
Please note we do not accept CVs in place of the application form. All CV submissions will be disregarded.