Residential Care Worker
This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The vacancy
Please note for this post we do not offer Right to Work.
Part time and Full time hours available.
Within this role, you will work as part of a team offering 24-hour care and support to children and young adults with visual impairment and complex needs within our residential houses in Edinburgh.
You will work collaboratively with the multi-professional team within our care provision and colleagues across the organisation. This post involves shift working over the 24-hour period. Shift patterns include day and evening shifts, night shifts (awake) and night shifts (sleep overs).
Applicants should have one, or more, of the following qualifications:
- An HNC in Social Care and SVQ 3 (all eight units)
- A qualification in nursing
- Equivalent qualification suitable for registration with the SSSC / appropriate professional body
This post is subject to PVG Scheme Record/Update and NMC Registration. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team will be second nature to you as will your ability to adapt and respond positively to the unexpected. We provide 24-hour support, so we need you to be able to work shifts, including weekends
Sight Scotland is the new name for Royal Blind, if you want to be part of our amazing work and if this sounds like an interesting new opportunity, please click on the apply button.
About us
For more than 230 years we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, but we want to do more. We will build on our rich history to create an organisation which is prepared for the future, and ready to respond to the needs of people impacted by vision loss.
Our vision is bold. We want to be at the leading edge of positive societal change by:
• Investing our funds in the support that makes the biggest difference
• Putting our community at the heart of what we do
• Campaigning for change
• Accelerating prevention and treatment of eye conditions
• Fostering a collaborative culture of innovation and learning
We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.
Our organisational values - Transform, Unite and Thrive - underpin all the work we do at Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans.
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