Support Practitioner (Female, driver only) - Glasgow

Are you on the lookout for a new flexible job with satisfaction you'd struggle to find anywhere else?

You're in luck as our amazing team in Pollokshaws, Glasgow are on the look out for new female* colleagues to join them as relief Support Practitioners.

The Role and the individuals you'll support

As a relief colleague, you will play an important part in our team, ensuring that we still provide the best care and support possible during times of staff training, holidays and absence.

You will be joining a small, dedicated team of Support Practitioner providing a twenty-four-hour housing support service to two fun loving and chatty ladies in Pollokshaws. The people we support have learning disabilities and other complex health and support needs; one of the ladies requires a wheelchair to get around.

Due to the needs of this service, we will need you to have a full UK manual driving licence with one years expereince on the roads.

About You

Here at Cornerstone, we're more interested in what you as a person will bring to our team, so it's not essential that you already have experience in care or qualification. We'll pay you for your training and will even fund your SVQ (SCQF level 6/7) and yearly SSSC registration fees too!

To be a great Support Practitioner , you will be:

• a naturally empathetic person with a warm, friendly personality
• a good listener with great communication skills
• able to build and maintain positive, respectful relationships with different people
• a problem-solver and able to think on your feet and use your initiative
• upbeat, energetic with a positive, can-do attitude
• reliable and flexible to meet the needs of the people we support

Here at Cornerstone, we're more interested in what you as a person will bring to our team, so it's not essential that you already have experience in care or qualification. We'll pay you for your training and will even fund your SVQ (SCQF level 6/7) and yearly SSSC registration fees too!

Shift Patterns

Our team provides support twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If you’re successful in joining our team, your rota will include a combination of longer and shorter day shifts and sleepovers; for example, 8.00 am to 5.30 pm, 8.00 am to 8.30 pm and 8.00 am to 8.00 am sleepover.

Sleepover hours are not included in your contracted hours and you’ll receive an additional sleepover payment.

Do you have any questions? To find out more, please contact Alice Sawyer on 07385002097.

If you’re successful in joining our team, you will be expected to join the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and must be willing to work towards a SVQ in Social Services and Healthcare as required for SSSC registration. We will need you to register with the SSSC within 3 months of starting your employment with us.

Please note - If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany. Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.

Cornerstone welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively seeks to increase the diversity of our workforce.

* For this position, female is an Occupational Requirement as defined by the Equality Act 2010.