Job description

Do you have experience working in senior support or supervisory role in health or social care?

Are you passionate about supporting people in a person-centred way to ensure they meet their full potential and live life to the full?

Can you motivate and inspire others to follow your lead and to work together to ensure people receive the best quality of care and support in their own homes?

Then this could be the perfect role for you!

About the Role

We are currently looking to recruit a Supervisor to join our Day Support Services based in Dundee. We are looking for a qualified practitioner with strong experience of working directly with people who have complex health care or communication needs and can guide, lead and motivate a team to deliver high-quality person-centred care, leading by example of best social care practice.

For this post we require candidates to be able to register with SSSC as a Supervisor and you would be required to hold and SVQ 3 Social Care or be just about to obtain this for registration.

The service that you would join is a highly specialised service that offers a huge reward in personal development and career opportunities for the future. We are looking for you to become a key player in our team that has a breadth of expertise in communication, health and wellbeing and promoting positive behaviour. This is a role where you can really make a difference. Each person supported is unique and we work in partnership with them, their friends and families and associated health and social work professionals to help overcome everyday challenges and plan for a positive future. You will need to have excellent communication skills, be able to carry out individualised direct personal care, be confident in dealing with complex challenging behaviour and be able to support the staff team to help the people we support to reach their goals on a daily basis.

About You

This role could be for you if:

• You have experience with working in large, flexible teams within a social care setting
• You can be flexible- able to work days, evenings, weekends, night shift
• You have experience of supporting culture change in the work environment
• You have strong IT and office organisation skills
• You have excellent knowledge and experience of person-centred practice
• You have the ability to coach and mentor staff
• You can challenge poor or unsafe practice and to champion good practice and person-centred support for the individuals’ using services.
• You have excellent communication skills to relay complex and challenging information
• You hold an SVQ Level 3 in Social Care (or other specialty recognised by the SSSC for registration purposes and must be able to meet and maintain the appropriate SSSC registration requirements and conditions for a Supervisor in a Care at Home / Housing Support Service.

Working for us

At Sense Scotland we recognise how hard our staff work, and help us to deliver vital support, that makes a real positive impact to the people we support. We value the work each staff member does within the organisation, in addition to local recognition of staff’s achievements, we encourage nominations for our staff awards.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include:

• Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies
• Generous annual leave entitlement – 36 days annual leave (including public holidays)
• Pension scheme
• Training and Development - we support social care qualifications via out onsite SVQ centre
• Life insurance benefit
• Perkbox scheme/staff discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Employee Awards Event
• Blue Light Card Membership – receive many discounts when you join
• £500 retention bonus once completed probationary period
• Staff referral incentive
• Health and wellbeing support
• HSF (Hospital Saturday Fund)
• Monthly staff award £voucher draw
• Registered with Concert for Carers

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £22,414.60 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Weekend availability

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: SUPDSS

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