Support Practitioner – Caithness (Respite Service)

Salary: £24,051 – £25,494 (pro rata) per annum / £12.30 – £13.04 based on qualifications, skills and experience

Contract Type: Permanent, Supply/Casual/Relief

Position Type: Full Time, Part Time, Supply/Casual/Relief

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Are you looking for a fulfilling role that makes a positive impact in your local community? At Carr Gomm, we are offering a unique opportunity to become a part-time Support Practitioner in our Home Respite service and make a real impact in the lives of both carers and their loved ones.

Additional Benefits:

• Anti-social hours payment of up to £1209 per annum when undertaking waking night shift (11pm-7am)
• Time and a half payment for hours worked over 37.5 hours per week (averaged over the pay period)
• Enhanced mileage payment of 45p per mile
• 35 days’ holiday per year, increasing to 40 days with length of service.
• £200 Recommend a Friend Scheme (T&Cs apply).
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and sick leave
• A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions
• Free Blue Light Card (giving access to thousands of discounts and promotions)
• Access to the Carr Gomm App: which includes free physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling.
• Membership of a credit union
• Cycle to work scheme; and more!

We are one of Scotland’s leading social care and support charities striving to help people to achieve their individual hopes and dreams every day. We know our work is challenging and very rewarding, and we require people with a flexible and inspirational approach able to find innovative solutions with people, not for them. Our organisation provides many years of practical experience, professional policies and procedures, expert colleagues and a passion for continually learning and improving.

Maybe you don’t have any experience and working in Social Care is new to you? Don’t be put off! We’d love to hear from you!

We are interested in what you are like as a person, and what values you can bring. If they match ours, we are convinced that our training and ongoing support will make you into an excellent Support Practitioner. Of course, if you have experience in a similar role, we will value that experience.

We welcome applications from any candidates already eligible to work in the UK or those that can apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas, ancestry etc.) that do not require sponsorship from Carr Gomm. You will be asked to share proof of this prior to receiving any offer of employment.