Support Practitioner

Service: Perth Floating House

Based: Perth

Hours: Full Time Available (37 hours per week)

Salary: £12.19 - £12.74 per hour, rising to £12.43 in your first year of service

Annual: £23,450 - £24,514

Contract Fixed Term until August 2025 (Maternity Cover)

Use your skills in a CAREER THAT CARES

At Turning Point Scotland, we have an exciting opportunity for a Support Practitioner to help make a positive impact for people, encouraging them to fulfil their lives with exciting and fun activities, pursue their hobbies and passions & creating memorable experiences.

Embark on an emotionally rewarding journey and apply today!

About the Role

As a Support Practitioner, you will:

• Deliver 1-2-1 support to individuals in their own home, enabling them to develop skills required to live independently.
• You will be required to keep accurate notes regarding support visits carried out and also to complete risk assessments, support plans and reviews for each individual that you support.

• Be an active member of a supportive team, passionate about the work they do.
• Celebrate achievements and milestones, both big and small, to create a rewarding and positive environment.
• The service operates Monday to Friday 8am-8pm and Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm with the core hours being Monday – Friday 9am-5pm.

About You

You will have a genuine commitment to use your skills to support people to live their best lives. You will be supported by an incredibly approachable management team, allowing you to expand on your existing knowledge whilst developing new skills. You will have flexibility to work on a rota.

No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team!

We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team.

About Us – Perth and Kinross Housing and Support Service (PKHSS)

Perth Floating Housing Support Service provides support to adults with varying needs within their own homes. The service aims to enable individuals to develop the skills required in order to independently maintain and sustain their tenancies.

Whilst we very much welcome experienced practitioners, no previous working experience is needed. You will be provided with all of the training, support and equipment required to successfully fulfil your role.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.

We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.

• Comprehensive Induction
• 123 Learning and development courses
• 29 eLearning courses
• Funded qualification – SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
  
• Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
• Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
• Wide range of family friendly policies
• 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.