Support Worker - Positive Steps - EDN29334

Job Description

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Support Worker 
Positive Steps

Salary: £25,322 - £27,727 per year
Hours: 36 per week

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join Positive Steps Support service in the role of Support Worker . Positive Steps is a short-term Mental health visiting support service registered with the Care Inspectorate. The service is open 365 days a year with Staff working on a rolling rota shift pattern. There will be an additional working Time Payment to reflect shift working.

The post holder will be required to participate in the delivery of a responsive and needs led service. Promote effective multi-disciplinary working with other disciplines aimed at providing a good level of support to service users.

City of Edinburgh Council are currently going through a service review. It must therefore be noted to potential candidates that structures and posts may be subject to change.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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