Community Care Assistant - Access and Emergency Social Care Services

City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 33,000

Job description

Salary: £28,046 - £32,010 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time

Hours: 36 hours per week

Work From Home: Hybrid

Job Description

Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership

Community Care Assistant - Access and Emergency Social Care Services
Waverley Court

We are looking to recruit 1 creative, enthusiastic, emotionally resilient individual to join our new team based within social care direct.

The social care direct response team provides a first point of contact for adults and carers who wish to access social work services across Edinburgh. You will work alongside Social Workers and Occupational Therapists and will contribute to the provision and monitoring of services for individuals and their carers within the community.

Within defined boundaries, the successful candidate will co-ordinate the provision of a range of social care services and equipment to meet the assessed needs of individuals requiring assistance, with the aim of enabling people to live more independently in their communities.

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.

To help achieve our goal of improving our organisational culture and creating a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, 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.

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

Happy to talk flexible working.