Senior Care Practitioner - Crossreach : Job Details

Our purpose-built care home in Stonehaven provides a welcoming and supportive environment for adults with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities. Home to five incredible individuals aged from their mid-twenties to mid-forties, our residents thrive through meaningful relationships and a wide variety of social activitiesboth at the Bungalow and within the local community.

As part of our team, you’ll play a vital role in creating a vibrant, inclusive space where everyone feels valued and empowered. You’ll help our residents live life to the fullest, supporting them to pursue their passions and maintain their independence in a warm and friendly setting.

If you’re looking for a role that’s deeply rewarding, where you can truly make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Do you have a passion for providing exceptional care and support? Are you ready to lead by example in delivering person-centred care to individuals with learning disabilities or autism? At CrossReach, we’re seeking a Senior Care Practitioner to join our team and help us create a safe, respectful, and empowering environment for those we support.

This role requires flexibility, as you’ll need to be available to cover all shifts, including earlies, lates, weekends, and sleepovers.

As a Senior Care Practitioner, you’ll take on a dual roledividing your time between hands-on care for service users and supervisory responsibilities. You’ll be instrumental in assessing needs, planning personalised support, and inspiring your team to achieve excellence. Guided by CrossReach’s Christian ethos, your work will have a meaningful impact on the lives of service users and their families.

In this role, you will lead the development and delivery of personalised care plans, supervise and mentor staff to maintain high standards of care, and ensure all care is delivered in line with CrossReach’s policies and statutory requirements. Promoting dignity, respect, and equality for all service users will be central to everything you do, while actively contributing to the professional development of your team.

You are a compassionate and organised professional with an SVQ Level 3 or 4 qualification (or equivalent in Social Work or Nursing). You will bring previous management experience, ideally in social care, alongside exceptional communication and time management skills. Balancing compassion with professionalism will be one of your strengths.

Being a Christian and able to work within and uphold CrossReach’s Christian ethos is an occupational requirement for this role under the Equality Act 2010.

We offer a supportive and collaborative environment with opportunities for ongoing professional development, giving you the chance to make a real difference in the lives of others.

Apply now to be part of a team where your skills, passion, and faith can come together to create lasting change.

We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that support others.

Firstly, there is access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card. We also ensure that your future and that of your loved ones is secured with a generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit. Balancing work and family are made easier with our suite of enhanced family friendly policies and your health and wellness are prioritised with access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments. We even have access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most.

But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.

CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better.

Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.

As we do our work in Christ’s name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

This post requires you to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks. You will also be required to be registered with SSSC and it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you meet the standards and criteria for registration.

We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

We are committed to ensuring that we attract, retain, and develop the very best people to build a diverse and talented team and we recognise that every individual’s unique background, experience and ability contributes to our success. We aim to create an inclusive and inspiring environment where individuals feel valued and respected and where people can belong, thrive and be their very best, whoever they are.If you have any queries regarding this role or our recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team on .uk

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

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