Waking Nights Support Practitioner

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Make a positive difference in someone's life by joining The Richmond Fellowship Scotland!
Our fantastic team are on the lookout for compassionate and creative individuals with a positive attitude to join them as Support Practitioners.

We are looking for someone to join our team in Inverness as a Waking Nights Support Practitioner. This is a part-time role.

You don't need experience in care to start your career with us; we recruit on values and transferrable skills. We'll give you all the training you need to be an amazing Support Practitioner including a fully funded SVQ.

About Us:

The Richmond Fellowship Scotland provides personalised and outcome-focused support to over 2800 individuals in their own homes across Scotland, making us the country's largest provider of social care. We support individuals with a variety of different needs such as physical and/or learning disabilities, ongoing mental health issues, alcohol or substance abuse and autism. Some of the people we support can present challenging behavior or require a high level of personal care.

The Role :

As a Support Practitioner, you will assist individuals living with disabilities and/or additional support needs in all aspects of their daily lives, including support with medication and finances, housework, meal preparation, cooking and personal care.
The people we support have a variety of different hobbies which we'll be looking to you to take an active interest in, from going out for a tasty bite or catching the latest movie to a gym session or group activity, the list is endless.
To be part of our team, we'll need you to:

• Have an empathetic and caring nature.
• Good observation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence in using computers.
• Be able to work well in a team environment and on your own.
• Good organisational skills.
  

Benefits

• Generous annual leave.
• TRFS rewards scheme (includes cash-back and discounts at a variety of high street and online retailers).
• Paid travel during shifts and 45p per mile fuel allowance. xwwtmva
• Continuous in-house training opportunities and chances to further your career in social care.
• Refer a Friend scheme- £150 reward
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