SWRK- G2 Senior Social Care Worker

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ACTUAL CLOSING DATE:
Applications must be received by DATE AND TIME

Location: McKillop Gardens, East Kilbride
Hours: 37 per week, permanent
Salary / Hourly Rate: £20.53 - £21.13 per hour.

South Lanarkshire Council is an ambitious, high performing organisation with a clear vision and programme of action which is designed to improve the lives and prospects of everyone in South Lanarkshire.

The aim of Social Work Resources is to promote social welfare and provide effective care and support to meet the needs of vulnerable people in South Lanarkshire.

In partnership with community planning partners, voluntary and independent provider organisations, we offer a range of services designed to enable, support, improve and protect the health and social care of people using our services.

The successful applicant will have experience in caring for older people within a residential setting. You will be responsible for managing and developing staff in accordance with all Council policy and procedures including performance appraisal, maximising attendance, supervision, induction etc.

You will ensure that residents’ needs are recorded in their personal plans and a risk assessment is completed. You will work in partnership with appropriate agencies and other Council departments and Resources on behalf of service users and contribute to a number of client focused meetings.

You will have a responsibility for the administration of prescribed medication to service users, produce and present reports for reviews and ensure staff operate financial systems within the required procedures.

The successful candidates must have SVQ Level 3 or HNC and working towards 2 units of SVQ Level 4.

Hours to be worked in accordance with a roster including evenings and weekends.

It is a requirement of this post that after taking up your appointment you progress and gain registration with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months. Thereafter you must maintain your registered status.

View the Senior Social Care Worker job profile.

When completing the application process please ensure that you cover the following areas:

• 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, please include 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 working as part of a team. Please provide detail of a time when you worked as part of a team to complete a task. Explain what role you played?
• 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 provide evidence of how you would focus on the daily requirements of meeting service users/staff needs against a backdrop of compelling demands.

If you require to submit any further additional information to support your application (not a CV), please upload this under supporting documents.

Please Apply online -All correspondence will be via your email address

Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.

Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.

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,…