Support Worker

Routes To Work South; Lanark; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local support organization is seeking compassionate individuals to provide high-quality person-centered support to disabled individuals in Lanark. The role offers both full-time and part-time opportunities, ensuring flexible hours to accommodate your needs. Successful candidates will receive comprehensive training and the necessary support to excel in their positions, making a meaningful impact on the lives of those they assist. Salary starts at £12.60 per hour with additional benefits and training support.

Benefits

Competitive annual leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Fully funded SVQ qualification

Access to Costco Membership

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• No prior experience necessary as full training is provided.
• All support workers require to register with SSSC.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality person-centred support to individuals.
• Help individuals plan their support accessing various support networks.
• Ensure good teamwork is developed and maintained.

Job description

Job Specifics

• Reference No: LO261
• Location: Lanark
• Hours: Full & Part Time (Variable Hours available to suit individual needs)
• Salary: £12.60
• Closing Date: Friday 9th January 2026
• Why should you apply for this role: Rewarding Role

Job Overview

Our client are an organisation that support disabled people of all ages to make everyday matter.

Their teams know that good support is essential for a good life, and so they work alongside every person they support and their family to help them live life to the full.

Passionate about being the best employer they can be, ensuring staff feel supported and valued in their roles.

Benefits include:

• Main Grade Hourly rate of £12.60 (Pay Award Pending)
• Induction and Relief Register rate £12.60.
• Sleepover hourly rate of £12.60.
• Enhanced rate for waking nights.
• Competitive annual leave and company sick pay.
• Payment of annual SSSC fees for contracted Support Workers.
• Enhanced pay for work on targeted Public Holidays.
• Paid Membership of Disclosure Scotland’s PVG Scheme.
• Full, in-depth training for your role.
• Fully funded SVQ qualification with support provided to achieve this.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential counselling, advice and support on a wide range of issues.
• A Workplace Pension.
• Free access to occupational health support.
• Credit Union Membership.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Access to Costco Membership.
• Access to Blue Light Card/Blue Light Ticket registration which offer a range of discounts and savings.
• Concerts for Carers registration.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Key Tasks

• • To provide high quality person-centred support to individuals, both within their home and in the community, in accordance with the company’s aims and principles and the Codes of Conduct and Practice issued by the Scottish Social Services Council.
  • To help individuals plan their support, accessing both formal and informal support networks, and to promote the rights and choices of the people you support.
  • To constantly monitor the quality and appropriateness of support, and to ensure good ‘teamwork’ is developed and maintained between all people involved in a person’s support.

  Responsibilities with people who are supported

  • To build warm, caring, and positive relationships with people receiving support, and to keep the individual’s best interests in mind at all times.
  • To provide direct practical help, advice and guidance to individuals in all areas of their life as required. This support should at all times respect the person’s rights and personal dignity and value and should be provided in a manner that is entirely non-discriminatory, sensitive (to needs and wants), image enhancing, and empowering.
  • Areas of support activity may include personal care (including intimate areas of self-care such as washing, dressing or using the toilet), domestic home care, financial matters (including maximising income and managing expenditure), emotional and physical wellbeing, education or employment, and general social or leisure areas (including making and maintaining friendships/relationships).
  • To work creatively to help individuals recognise achievements, celebrate successes, assist informed decision making, identify problems and find ways of resolving them, and to take advantage of opportunities, gain new experiences, and develop life-skills and confidence.
  • To use person-centred planning tools to help individuals (along with other important people in their lives) identify future aspirations, and current support needs and preferences, and consider how these can best be met.
  • To support individuals to co-ordinate their own formal and informal support (families, friends and other interested people), or where necessary or desired to co-ordinate this support on their behalf.
  • To liaise with other agencies with and on behalf of individuals to enable access to appropriate resources and services (including specialist services).
  • Where individuals share accommodation to help them live together positively, share responsibilities (including running their home), identify common issues and concerns and find solutions to problems.

  General

  • To communicate effectively, and to work positively and co-operatively with managers, other employees, workers from other agencies and members of the public (including family and friends of individuals who are supported) – and to keep supported individuals as the main focus of your efforts.
  • To take your personal and professional development seriously, at work this will include your active involvement in supervision, and also (where identified as appropriate) taking part in meetings, forums, and training.
  • To maintain records in a wide range of areas (including using non-writing-based methods such as graphics/photos, audio/visual tapes, computers etc…)
  • To understand issues of confidentiality in relation to your work and individuals who are supported and to ensure this is maintained.
  • To provide support, or be available to provide support, in line with agreed practice/local arrangements which is likely to include participating in a rota, sleep‑over cover, and a range of fixed time or flexible time arrangements, including on‑call arrangements.
  • To help ensure that people’s homes are safe, secure and comfortable by offering support, undertaking tasks directly, and where appropriate arranging servicing/repairs, and/or advising line manager of concerns or reporting direct to relevant others.
  • To be aware of the Health and Safety Policy of Key and understand your own responsibilities within this, and to actively use risk assessment practices (to avoid or minimise risk) in all areas of your work and support.
  • To be aware of and follow all procedures and practices (as laid out in the Procedures Handbook).
  • To conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the expectations of other bodies (eg, Service Level Agreements/Contracts with funding agencies, the Care Inspectorate, and Scottish Social Services Council).
  • To undertake other duties within the main objectives of the post as requested by people you support, colleagues, or by your line manager.

Employer Expectations

Skills/Knowledge/Experience etc

• No prior experience necessary as full training is provided.

Qualifications/Tickets/Licences Required

• Full training provided. All support workers require to register with SSSC.