SWRK 617 - Day Care Worker

The successful applicant will have experience in caring for older people, preferably within a day service, community-based outreach or residential setting and be familiar with all aspects of personal care.

You will require to be flexible, working within both building based and outreach services as required and be willing to undertake delegated tasks as part of a care staff team. You must also be committed to promoting service users’ independence, rights, choices and individuality.

As an employer, South Lanarkshire Council offer excellent conditions of service along with good training opportunities to enable you to secure a qualification in care.

Ideally the successful candidate will hold an SVQ in Social Care Level 2 or 3 or an HNC in Social Care or be willing to work towards gaining these qualifications.

SSSC registration is required for this post.

Hours: 37 hours per week

Vacancy: Permanent

Salary: £27,510.11 - £27,838.07

View the Day Care Worker job profile

When completing the application process please ensure that you cover the following areas:

• Please study the Job Profile and provide examples of your work, or other activities which demonstrate your ability or aptitude to undertake the duties of the post, please include any other information that you feel is relevant to your application e.g. personal qualities, achievements at work, non-work related or voluntary work experience.
• Working within the care sector requires you to be flexible in your approach to meet service delivery. Can you describe a time when you had to rearrange your tasks and how you did this to ensure work was completed within timescale?
• South Lanarkshire Council are committed to delivering excellent customer service. Please describe how you would ascertain and manage client expectations, while still delivering excellent customer service.
• Please describe a time where you have used your communication and interpersonal skills to achieve success in a task.
• Can you give an example of why good communication skills would be important for an employee of South Lanarkshire Council?
• Please confirm if you already hold the SVQ in Social Care Level 2 or 3 or would you be working towards this?

Please Apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address.

Please note we do not accept CVs, any submitted will be disregarded. If you require to submit additional information to support your application, please upload this under supporting documents.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.

This post is considered Regulated Work with adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

Please refer to http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk for further information about the disclosure process and best practice.

Foreign Police Check

Candidates should be able to detail any gaps in employment and provide a foreign police check where applicable for any periods living or working abroad.

Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position.

South Lanarkshire Council is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview who meet the minimum requirements for the position.