Support Practitioner

Are you passionate about providing care to vulnerable people? Do you have experience providing person centred care? Do you want to see vulnerable people achieve their goals? Well we have the role for you!

We are currently recruiting for Support Practitioners to join an established team in Gorebridge, Newtongrange, Loanhead and surrounding areas of Midlothian. You will be working with individuals who require support for a variety of reasons including Mental Health, Autism, Physical & Learning Disabilities.

By joining this team, you will enjoy a number of benefits:

• A permanent role
• Providing people the support to have their own skills, opinions and dreams
• A full time role with the opportunity for overtime, paid at time and a half

What can you expect from joining this specialist team:

• you will support people with all aspects of daily living at home and in their communities
• You will assist people with planning for their future and to prevent the effects of social isolation and loneliness in their lives
• Adopting a person centered approach to working with individuals who require support for a variety of reasons including Mental Health, Autism, Physical & Learning Disabilities

What you will bring to the role - to excel in this specialist setting you will need to evidence:

• At least 2 years of experience with working in health and social care
• Local to the area
• Driver

Successful support practitioners come from different backgrounds and have a range of experiences, but all share our values of respect, interdependence, choice, control, openness and honesty. In our eyes, the best support practitioners are warm, open, honest, resilient, respectful, patient, positive, empathetic and well-motivated team players who are creative thinkers and excellent problem-solvers.

If you are interested in this opportunity please apply, give me a call on or email your CV

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.