Working at Inspire

Inspire provide a wide range of services for people with learning disabilities and additional support needs throughout the North-east of Scotland.

Working with the vision of empowering the life choices of the people we support, our services include 24-hour support, visiting support, skills development in relation to employment, respite care and innovative day opportunities.

Inspire support over 400 adults and young people, providing services based on individual need. Founded in 1988, almost three decades of experience helps the organisation to provide bespoke support solutions, developed though our outcome based support planning process. Today Inspire employs over 500 members of staff across 50 services across the region.

Inspire empower the life choices of adults and young people with learning disabilities and additional support needs in the North East of Scotland.
We provide a range of services in Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray including residential care, supported accommodation, training for employment initiatives and respite. We support people in a variety of settings, from enabling individuals and their families to plan for current and future support needs using person centred planning, to providing self directed support to help people achieve their chosen outcomes.

Inspire currently offer a range of over 50 services, including:

Residential services
Day services
Support to people in their communities
Respite care
Social Support Groups
Social enterprises
Training for employment initiatives

How we support people

Inspire recognise that having a good life is about more than good support. People are asking for support to try new opportunities, participate in the community, and achieve their hopes and dreams. Everyone we support is unique and we are expanding our range of services to meet changes in expectations.

Inspire's mission is to be a leading charity in the field of learning disabilities and other support needs, developing a range of competitive services to facilitate an inclusive and integrated community through involvement of people we support and employees, enabling empowerment of individuals and encouraging potential to build independent lives.
To find out more about how we help to empower people's life choices, click here to download our latest promotional material.

Our SSSC Membership

At Inspire all of our support staff are registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). The SSSC make sure that the people of Scotland can count on social services work being carried out by a trusted, skilled and confident workforce. All social service workers are registered with the SSSC, who set standards for practice, conduct, qualifications and training.

Inspire is a leading charity supporting people with learning disabilities and additional support needs.

We operate in more than 50 services throughout Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

Our Teams

Inspire empower the life choices of adults, young people and children with learning disabilities and additional support needs in North East Scotland.

Inspire employs over 500 staff and provide a range of more than 50 services throughout Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

If you display energy, drive and enthusiasm for empowering the life choices of others, please apply today to have the opportunity to be part of one of our projects, and make a real difference to the people we support.

"The service as a whole makes a difference to the people we support by offering varied activities and general shop work. The difference in the service, I would say, is that it’s completely person centred and we adapt the activities to suit the interests of the person, to keep them excited to attend"
Mark Murison - Support Manager

Discover your career in social care and help to empower people's life choices.You can make a positive difference by becoming a Support Worker at our services across Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray. This role supports people living with learning disabilities with all aspects of their lives.

Do you want to be part of a dynamic team that supports Inspire to meet its goals? Working in Inspire's friendly office environment offers the opportunity for a wide variety of roles to use and develop your skills and expertise.

Café Coast is our café and conferencing venue situated on Aberdeen’s Beach Boulevard.  The fully licensed café is open daily for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. It also provides employability skills and volunteering opportunities for the people we support.

Volunteers are an integral part of what we do.  The one thing that makes our volunteers so special is that they provide Inspire with the most precious and valuable thing of all – their time!