Personal Assistant / Care Support Worker

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 July 2025
LOCATION
Edinburgh
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Associate
CATEGORY
Healthcare
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Health and Safety Health & Social Care Time Management Communication Compassionate Care Catheter Care

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

To provide emotional and physical support to individuals and their families. To facilitate independence by working in a dignified and respectful way.

Key Responsibilities/Duties: Supporting service users, including assisting with advocacy and being a Key Worker, Catheter care, moving and assisting, promotion of equality and people’s rights, social visits, meal preparation and shopping, reporting incidents, accidents, or complaints, and medication, washing dressing, continence promotion. Managing personal workload including logging into and out of every visit, attending and contributing to meetings, updating electronic records such as daily notes, keeping updated with care legislation and SCA policies, and attending all relevant training and development programs.

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: 2 years or more experience in a similar role, SVQ 2 or equivalent in Health or Social Care. Skills including: Basic - Knowledge of health and safety; Basic - Understanding of health & social care best practice; Good - Attention to detail; Good - Time management, and planning; Good - Ability to work independently with initiative; Good - Communication across different audiences; Excellent - Compassionate, trustworthy, and reliability.

ABOUT THE JOB:

To provide emotional and physical support to individuals and their families. To facilitate independence by working in a dignified and respectful way.

YOUR KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

•2 years or more experience in a similar role

•SVQ 2 or equivalent in Health or Social Care

YOU SKILLS

•Basic - Knowledge of health and safety.

•Basic - Understanding of health & social care best practice.

•Good - Attention to detail.

•Good - Time management, and planning.

•Good - Ability to work independently with initiative.

•Good - Communication across different audiences

•Excellent - Compassionate, trustworthy, and reliability

WHAT WE OFFER:

People are at the heart of everything we do, so we continue to invest in our staff to ensure they are happy, motivated, well-trained and supported.

- Travel expenses

- Guaranteed hours

- Competitive salary

- 28 days paid holidays

- Great employee benefits

- Your own Buddy to support you

- Access to our mentorship program

- Opportunities for career development

- Employers contribution into your pension

- Participation to social occasions and events

- Access to education and learning resources

- On-going support with paid specialist training

WORKING WITH [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Indeed - _"There is a great staff team who are keen to_ _help a new member of staff integrate into the service."_

Glassdoor - _"Flexible hours, amazing_ _colleagues, great investment in training and development, nice clients"_

Google - _"Excellent service and very friendly_ _staff"_

Care Inspectorate - _“New care_ _staff undertook comprehensive induction training which covered the key skills_ _and knowledge required to provide care. They were supported well, being_ _assigned a "buddy" and there was very regular contact and support_ _from the team leaders.”_

Responsibilities

Supporting service users, including assisting with:

•Advocacy and being a Key Worker.

•Catheter care, moving and assisting.

•Promotion of equality and people’s rights.

•Social visits, meal preparation and shopping.

•Reporting incidents, accidents, or complaints.

•Medication, washing dressing, continence promotion.

Managing personal workload, including:

•Logging into and out of every visit.

•Attending and contributing to meetings.

•Updating electronic records such as daily notes.

•Keeping updated with care legislation and SCA policies.

•Attending all relevant training and development programs.

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