Support Worker, Community Health

Job Specifics

• Reference No: LO261
• Location: Lanark
• Hours: Full & Part Time (Variable Hours available to suit individual needs)
• Salary: £12.60
• Closing Date
  :
  Friday 23rd January 2026
• Why should you apply for this role
  :
  Rewarding Role

Our client are an organisation that support disabled people of all ages to make everyday matter.

Their teams know that good support is essential for a good life, and so they work alongside every person they support and their family to help them live life to the full.

Passionate about being the best employer they can be, ensuring staff feel supported and valued in their roles.

Benefits include:

• Main Grade Hourly rate of £12.60 (Pay Award Pending)
• Induction and Relief Register rate £12.60.
• Sleepover hourly rate of £12.60.
• Enhanced rate for waking nights.
• Competitive annual leave and company sick pay.
• Payment of annual SSSC fees for contracted Support Workers.
• Enhanced pay for work on targeted Public Holidays.
• Paid Membership of Disclosure Scotland’s PVG Scheme.
• Full, in-depth training for your role.
• Fully funded SVQ qualification with support provided to achieve this.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential counselling, advice and support on a wide range of issues.
• A Workplace Pension.
• Free access to occupational health support.
• Credit Union Membership.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Access to Costco Membership.
• Access to Blue Light Card/Blue Light Ticket registration which offer a range of discounts and savings.
• Concerts for Carers registration.

• • To provide high quality person-centred support to individuals, both within their home and in the community, in accordance with the company’s aims and principles and the Codes of Conduct and Practice issued by the Scottish Social Services Council.
  • To help individuals plan their support, accessing both formal and informal support networks, and to promote the rights and choices of the people you support.
  • To constantly monitor the quality and appropriateness of support, and to ensure good ‘teamwork’ is developed and maintained between all people involved in a person’s support.

  Responsibilities with people who are supported

  • To build warm, caring, and positive relationships with people receiving support, and to keep the individual’s best interests in mind at all times.
  • To provide direct practical help, advice and guidance to individuals in all areas of their life as required. This support should at all times respect the person’s rights and personal dignity and value and should be provided in a manner that is entirely non-discriminatory, sensitive (to needs and wants), image enhancing, and empowering.
  • Areas of support activity may include personal care (including intimate areas of self-care such as washing, dressing or using the toilet), domestic home care, financial matters (including maximising income and managing expenditure), emotional and physical wellbeing, education or employment, and general social or leisure areas (including making and maintaining friendships/relationships).
  • To work creatively to help individuals recognise achievements, celebrate successes, assist informed decision making, identify problems and find ways of resolving them, and to take advantage of opportunities, gain new experiences, and develop life-skills and confidence.
  • To use person-centred planning tools to help individuals (along with other important people in their lives) identify future aspirations, and current support needs and preferences, and consider how these can best be met.
  • To support individuals to co‑ordinate their own formal and informal support (families, friends and other interested people), or where necessary or desired to co‑ordinate this support on their behalf.
  • To liaise with other agencies with and on behalf of individuals to enable access to appropriate resources and services (including specialist services).
  • Where individuals share accommodation to help them live together positively, share responsibilities (including running their home), identify common issues and concerns and find solutions to problems.

  General

  • To communicate effectively, and to work positively and co‑operatively with managers, other…