Dementia Care Worker - Southside Dementia

DEMENTIA CARE WORKER

Southside Dementia Project – Southside, Glasgow

38 Hours per week | £21,143.20 per annum | Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 3 February 2023

Do you want to make a difference by helping us to improve lives?

Can you be a great team member and be supportive, creative and excellent at what you do?

Then why not join our fantastic organisation and be part of a first-class team delivering quality care and support.

Here at The Mungo Foundation, we are proud to be one of the most diverse providers of social care and support for vulnerable people in Glasgow, West Central Scotland and beyond. At any one time across our fantastic projects, we are supporting up to 1,500 individuals, their families and communities helping them to live better lives.

Our Southside Dementia Services are situated over two sites (McNeil and Moffat Street Projects) in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. The projects are specialised residential care homes which provides eight places in both sites for older people who have dementia.

We are looking to recruit a Dementia Care Worker to be based within our McNeil Street Project, who is enthusiastic and motivated to join our busy team. The successful candidate will be responsible for co-ordinating and delivering high-quality person-centred support plans, contributing to positive outcomes for the individuals we support, whilst promoting therapeutic and recreational activities. You must be willing to undertake regular shift work as required. 

The working pattern will be working 5 over 7 including weekend work.

If successful but unqualified, you will have to work towards a suitable qualification for a post at this level, in line with the SSSC Regulatory requirements but don’t worry we will support you with this.

We value our staff very highly. Alongside competitive terms and conditions we also offer membership of a great employee benefits’ scheme with fantastic shopping discounts, a credit union and workplace pension plus numerous training and development opportunities, including SVQ registration level qualifications.

Please complete and submit My profile form which can be found on our website:

https://www.themungofoundation.org.uk/join-our-team/my-profile/

Appointments are made subject to satisfactory membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme, SSSC registration and appropriate safer recruitment checks but we will guide you through this.

Job Reference: REQ00536