East Kilbride
Sessional positions available
Shift pattern; dayshifts, 8am - 8pm and waking nightshifts, 8pm - 8am
£14.95 per hour (£13.45 + £1.50 market supplement)
Are you interested in working for an award winning social care charity?
Personal Assistants (Support Workers) have the most important role within Enable by making a positive difference every day to the lives of the people we support. No two days are the same for our Personal Assistants but what we can guarantee is that you will be supporting someone who requires support to achieve their goals and outcomes – whatever they may be!
Each person we support has different support requirements, so your role as Support Worker may include assisting them with various aspects of personal care, moving and handling or positive behavioural support whilst expanding their social networks and connections.
Enable creates a bespoke team around every individual we support, and our team of Personal Assistants work collaboratively to ensure the safety, wellbeing and aspirations of the people we support are met.
The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me
The people we support have many varied interests and hobbies and have many of the same dreams and aspirations as we do; they just too often do not get the opportunity to experience these same opportunities. A career with Enable is as rewarding as it is diverse, Personal Assistants at their best have the potential to truly bring out the best in the people we support.
Within Arran House we support two individuals
Let us introduce you to Darren:
"People who know me would say I am a lively, likeable and intriguing young man. I enjoy engaging with my staff but it is important they take the time to get to know me and build my trust. I have Autism Spectrum Disorder and a learning disability and require a lot of additional support with day to day living. My team support me with all aspects of living in my own home, including personal care, Positive Behaviour Support and working towards my own individual goals and outcomes. At times, I can become anxious and upset and I need my team to help me with this - my team are trained in PAMOVA in order to support me during these times. Some of the things I enjoy doing include going for a walk, getting out for a drive in my van (which my staff drive for me), visiting parks and using the swings. I also enjoy playing games at home and particularly enjoy Lego and jigsaws."
Darren needs the people who support him to:
- Have a good sense of humour
- Be able to work to strict guidelines and procedures
- Take pride in delivering a high standard of care
- Be equally as happy supporting me outdoors for the day or having a quiet day at home
Let us introduce you to Jordan :
Jordan is a young man who is in his early 20's, he has moved around a lot and now settled back in his local area, Jordan enjoys technology and WWE, he sees the world differently and requires routines and boundaries to feel safe. Jordan will be working towards accessing his local community again and at the moment likes to watch you tube and spend time researching topics that he enjoys, Jordan can communicate verbally his choices and his team of personal assistants would support him to ensure that he is making good choices and only requires prompts to ensure that he is managing his daily life in a structured way. Over time Jordan would benefit from developing life skills to allow him to live as independently as possible within his new home.