Support Practitioner

Are you an experienced Support Practitioner looking for a new opportunity to impact the lives of vulnerable adults?

Then we have the role available for you!

This post is working with adults in a care home setting within the Glenrothes area. This role involves supporting meal preparation, medication prompt and supporting Independence. As a Support Practitioner, you will be a committed and caring individual with relevant experience working in a care setting. Shift patterns tend to be a mixture of earlies and lates, across the week including weekends.

The successful support practitioner will be responsible for:

• Working effectively on their own as well as part of a team
• Recognising and encouraging the rights of service users within all areas of their life and to assist them to make informed choices and decisions
• Working in a professional manner, meeting National Care Standards, setting appropriate boundaries
• Joining a core team to support in a beans new support package
• Support provided across multiple service users which include learning disabilities (LD), physical disabilities (PD), brain injuries, and care for older adults
• Providing care within a residential setting in two properties that have 6 beds each

What Randstad Care can offer:

• Opportunity to get started right away
• Access to FREE e-learning modules + training, to help grow your care knowledge
• Access to Tablet/mobile app, which can allow you to pick up additional shifts and boost your earnings!
• Excellent £300 candidate referral scheme*
• SSSC Endorsement
• Temporary to permanent role
• Salary of £12.15 to £15.97 per hour
• Free Blue Light Card
• Contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
• Substantial and flexible annual leave, with the option to sell (salary sacrifice)
• Access to a Cash Health Plan at very favorable rates
• Comprehensive training relevant to your role
• Great development opportunities through our apprenticeship schemes and chance to gain recognised qualifications
• Unlimited payments through our Refer a Friend bonus scheme
• Access to cycle-to-work benefits (salary sacrifice)
• Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!

In ordered to be considered for this post, you must be:

• Qualified to minimum SVQ Level 2 in Care or HNC in Social Care (Desirable)
• A car driver with access to your own vehicle (ESSENTIAL)
• Minimum 1 year UK experience, working within a care setting

If you have a desire to make a difference to the lives of others and you have a hard working ethos please submit your CV or contact Dayna McKenna on 0131 240 0887 for a confidential discussion or further information or send your CV

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.