Community Living Assistant

We’re obsessed with providing the best possible care and support to people with disabilities. Are you?

Are you looking for a new challenge within care? Our North Lanarkshire service in Motherwell and Bellshill is hiring for Community Living Assistants who share our values!

Within North Lanarkshire, Capability Scotland has a Community Enabling service (Care at Home), through which we support our customers with day to day tasks and to achieve their outcomes.

Working for us no two days will be the same as you work with various customers supporting them to access what they enjoy both in their own homes and in the community.

About the Role

If you are someone who is passionate about assisting others to live full and happy lives, we want to hear from you!

While experience is great, we are really looking for people with the right values. You should have excellent communication skills and be flexible and empathetic.

A driver’s license is essential so please confirm, when applying, that you have it.

Due to specific customers' requirements we are looking for female candidates only at this time.

We have available full time, part-time and relief positions.

Our services are based in Motherwell, Wishaw, Bellshill, Shotts, Airdrie and Coatbridge.

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

• A generous salary of up to £20,904.00 (£10.28 per hour) applies
• Welcome bonus
• Refer a friend scheme
• Fully paid, sector-leading learning and development
• Fully funded SVQ placement – a qualification which is yours for life
• Excellent annual leave of 32 days per year, increasing with service
• Generous and enhanced pension schemes and family benefits
• As a member of our autoenrollment pension scheme, £10,000 provided in the case of Death in Service
• Flexible working is available
• Access to Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to shopping discounts through the Perks At Work scheme
• Free 24/7 employee assistance programme
• Free PVG checks throughout your career.

Applying to Capability Scotland

Applying to join our family is easy. Please visit our website. On our website at the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to our hiring service. You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date. We’ll invite successful candidates to an interview so we can learn more about what makes each other tick, in a safe and secure way. You can keep a track of your application in your profile management settings.

A full job description of this role is available by clicking here: Community Living Assistant

For more information on this role, you can call Siobhan on 01698 372003 ext. 2609 using reference CS200905.

General Information

• Capability Scotland is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We are happy to consider job-share applications.
• Capability Scotland is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people and conducts thorough pre-employment checks on all preferred candidates.
• A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.