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Are you an experienced Health & Social care professional looking for an exciting new role? We've got a great opportunity for you!
We have an exciting opportunity for an organised and dedicated individual to join our fantastic #TeamMoray as a Lead Practitioner on a part-time (25 or 30 hours) or full-time (39 hours), permanent basis.
The Role
As a Lead Practitioner, you'll demonstrate great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and will lead and inspire your team of Support Practitioners in Buckie.
- Provide support, guidance and mentor your teams to ensure that they are professional, accountable, engaged and motivated resulting in them delivering first class, high quality care and support.
- Contribute to ensuring that our service(s) are running within agreed budgets and in conjunction with our contractual requirements, alongside our Service Lead.
For a full list of key responsibilities, please see our role profile attached to this advert.
About You
What we'll need you to bring:
- Experience of managing people
- Knowledge of what it takes to run an effective service within the Health & Social Care sector
- A passion for and experience of delivering high quality, person-centred care and support
- Sound knowledge of SSSC Codes of Practice and Health & Social Care Standards
- Proven record of building and maintaining positive and professional relationships with supported individuals, their families and other stakeholders
- The ability to lead others and work collaboratively
- Great communication skills; both verbal and written
- A sound understanding of professional boundaries, accountabilities and responsibilities and how they relate to supporting vulnerable individuals
- A commitment to undertake and achieve a SVQ Social Services & Healthcare SCQF Level 7 qualification and PDA in Health & Social Care Supervision (if not already attained)
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Shift Patterns
As a Lead Practitioner, you will work 5 out of 7 days. There may be occasions where we will need you to be flexible to work evenings, sleepovers, waking nights and weekends due to the needs of our services. On call duties will also form part of your role on a rotational basis.
What Makes Cornerstone a Great Place To Work
- You'll have a meaningful job doing things that you enjoy - it often doesn't feel like work
- Your job actually changes and improves lives - you'll make a difference in your local community
- We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
- No uniform - we wear our own casual clothes
- We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
- We reimburse your yearly SSSC registration fees
- Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
- Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
- Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
- Long service awards
- Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
- 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
- Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
- Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few
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The successful candidate will be required to join the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme and be committed to working towards a relevant SVQ in Social Services and Healthcare and a PDA in management with the support from our Training Academy.
If you’re successful in joining our team, we will need you to register with the SSSC within 3 months of starting your employment with us.
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