Working at Carr Gomm

At Carr Gomm we see your potential and with over ten year's experience of delivering high quality support services all across the country that are personal, practical and professional, we believe in what we do and care about getting it right for you.

Our Vision

The vision of Carr Gomm is that we all live in a society where everyone should have the support they need to make choices and to control their lives as citizens. It is the responsibility of governments, organisations and everyone as citizens to help us all achieve this. Carr Gomm can develop and provide its services in a way that facilitates this vision.

Our Mission Statement

Carr Gomm is a person-centred organisation that supports people to lead their lives safely and to do the things they want to do: in day-to-day living, in planning for the future and in realising dreams. We do this by providing support at home and in supported services which are delivered by highly trained and committed workers.

Our Aims

• To provide sustainable person-centred services which fit with our Mission and Business Plan;
• To secure our culture within the organisation by ensuring clarity about what we do and how we do it;
• To ensure we can evidence the standard of service we provide for internal management and to regulators and commissioners;
• To have systems that help people we support to be more in control of their support;
• To use our knowledge and skills to diversify into new areas of work and funding sources, and
• To increase our profile in the market place ensuring we are a provider chosen by whoever may be commissioning services

Our work is to offer support to people to live happy, fulfilled and successful lives and this involves giving help with whatever is required to achieve this. This can be very practical or personal support which helps people to manage and live safely, it can also be emotional support to help people feel settled and to make any changes wanted.

We are committed to rewarding the efforts of our staff and supporting their career development. By working with Carr Gomm, you'll be making a difference to the lives of the people we support and we want you to feel valued for the work that you do. That's why we have an excellent package that combines a competitive salary with benefits including:

• 35 days annual leave and public holidays
• Enhancements to statutory benefits for sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption
• A childcare voucher scheme with Computershare
• Shift patterns and flexible working
• A Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with the Pensions Trust
• Membership of a Credit Union, Bike to Work Scheme
• Being part of a supported team
• Staff Training and Development, including the opportunity to undertake SVQs
• Career development opportunities, including promotion

Support work is very skilled, which is why we have teams, training, staff supervision and a strong set of values to guide us. This helps both new and experienced workers. It is exciting, rewarding and challenging work, with an element of doing routine work as well. Workers will need to do personal care for some people and not for others. Some people may need a worker with them all the time, some people 2 or 3 times a day and some less often.

Staff Satisfaction and Career development

Carr Gomm holds the Investor in People Award recognising our continued investment in the learning and development of our staff. Carr Gomm was voted 7th in ‘Best Workplace in Scotland’ at the Best Workplaces Award Ceremony in 2012.

We are an accredited SQA Assessment Centre, we are now prepared to meet the challenge of all support staff being able to register as social care and support professionals.