Support Practitioner – Edinburgh

Salary: £24,051 – £25,494 per annum (pro rata) / £12.30 – £13.04 based on qualifications, skills and experience
Locality: Edinburgh

Category: Support Practitioner

Job Type: Full Time, Part Time

Job Description

Get Ready to Thrive in 2025!

Carr Gomm has an exciting opportunity for you to join our established teams based in the west of Edinburgh as a Support Practitioner.

We have decades of experience in these teams, supporting individuals who are living with learning and physical disabilities. Your ability to form good relationships is essential to ensuring that they are living a meaningful and fulfilled life.

As part of the team, you will make a real difference to the people we support, providing support in a person-centred way to help them with day to day living such as personal care, medication support and cleaning. The role also involves a lot of social support such as outings in the local community, attending groups and helping those we support achieve their dreams.

Due to the nature of the support, we can only accept applications from female candidates.* 

The services are staffed 24 hours a day, so we are looking for candidates who are flexible and can work a variety of days, evenings, sleepover shifts and weekend working.  We currently have full-time and part-time (from 22.5+hrs) opportunities for you to join our team in Edinburgh.

Whilst experience is always welcome, full training is provided. The right values and motivation are essential; honesty, respect, empathy and compassion are key skills that are required in people who join our team.  We would also welcome applications from those who have experience in Signalong or BSL though this isn’t an essential requirement of the role.

As a way of demonstrating how much we value you and your commitment we offer a range of great benefits:

  • Anti-social hours payment of up to £1209 when undertaking waking night shift (11pm-7am)
  • Time and a half payment for hours worked over 37.5 hours per week (averaged over the pay period)
  • Enhanced mileage payment of 45p per mile
  • 35 days’ holiday per year, increasing to 40 days with length of service.
  • £200 Recommend a Friend Scheme (T&C apply)
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and sick leave
  • A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions
  • Free Blue Light Card (giving access to thousands of discounts and promotions)
  • Access to the Carr Gomm App: which includes free physiotherapy, health coaching and counselling.
  • Membership of a credit union
  • Cycle to work scheme; and more!

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We welcome applications from any candidates already eligible to work in the UK or those that can apply for a visa granting permission to work in the UK (e.g. dependent visas, ancestry etc.) that do not require sponsorship from Carr Gomm. You will be asked to share proof of this prior to receiving any offer of employment. It is currently our policy not to offer sponsorship for prospective candidates.

*Please note that Schedule 9 Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010 applies to this vacancy.

Staff Benefits for Support Practitioners

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    Do you hold a full UK driving licence? Are you related to a board member or another Carr Gomm colleague? Have you worked for Carr Gomm through an agency? Do you have the Right to Work in the UK? Hours preferred?

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    Are you registered with any of the following regulatory bodies? Have you ever had a sanction or ban from any regulatory body? Have you ever been considered for listing, or barred from working with, either the Vulnerable Adults AND/OR Children’s workforce(s) with Disclosure Scotland? Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme?

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