Location: Leith
Contract Type: Permanent - Part Time
Closing Date: 31 January 2021
Salary: Starting salary £9.30 per hour (£18,860.40 per annum (pro-rata))
Specific Hours: 20
Job Title |
Personal Assistant
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Line Manager |
Lead Practitioner |
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Salary |
£18,252 FTE
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Department |
Supported Living |
Directorate |
Director of H&W
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Location |
Thistle Foundation, 13 Queens Walk, Edinburgh, EH16 4EA
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Hours |
Full-time & part-time
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FTE |
39 hours |
To assist those we support to lead full, active and socially connected lives and support people to reach their personal outcomes.
Our teams take responsibility for making their own decisions about how they organise their work and how they decide on how they’re going to get their work done. This role therefore requires good interpersonal skills and an ability to set and meet targets, ability to ask for and receive accurate feedback and ensure that cover is managed by the team at all times (e.g. holidays, sickness, training).
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Develop an understanding of person centred working and work from its value base at all times. |
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Contribute to ongoing use of ‘My Life, My support plan’ by keeping details updated and relevant. Contribute to the yearly review of ‘My Life, My Support Plan’. |
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Work flexibly and responsively to support the individual to meet their personal outcomes. |
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Provide person centred personal support and assistance for the person according to their ‘My Life My Support Plan’ |
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Work in partnership with individuals supporting them to be full citizens in their community. |
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Contribute to setting individual (personal) and team targets in relation to a person’s outcomes. Meet these targets |
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Support the person to develop and sustain positive relationships with all those people (family/friends/professionals) that are important to them. |
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Contribute to efficient team working by taking a pro-active part in team meetings and discussions, including chairing and minute taking and taking on tasks as agreed (e.g. working out the team rota, Carista, family connector, on-call, setting and reviewing priorities, identifying and improving systems and processes, working on feedback from families and those we support.) |
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Take a pro-active part in the team by supporting colleagues, communicating well and helping to deal with issues as they arise. |
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Accountable to the person you support and those who advocate on their behalf |
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Be creative in involving the supported person in all decision-making related to them. |
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Work to Thistle’s Values into Action |
The post holder is required to work to Thistle’s core competencies in ways which are relevant to their role.
Core Competencies |
Description |
Understanding self |
We develop a good understanding of ourselves and the impact we have on other people. Being genuine, respectful and listening with empathy to other people’s perspectives lies at the heart of all our interactions. We believe this practice is nurtured by the ability to continually reflect on ourselves and the impact we have on others. |
Building person centred relationships |
We develop supportive, collaborative and enabling relationships. We also believe that people are the experts in their lives and that they are doing their best and that by working alongside people we are more likely to succeed. We reflect on the extent to which we create trust in all our relationships and how well we work within teams. |
Making a difference using person centred approaches |
We believe that using person centred approaches can be critical to whether people make the changes they want in their lives or not. We do this by focusing on what matters to each person and what they want specifically to achieve including taking life enhancing risks. We always encourage feedback in order to learn and improve on what we do. |
Focusing on strengths, resilience and contribution |
We believe that people have strengths, skills, knowledge and resilience and the ability to contribute to their own and others’ lives. We need to be flexible and innovative to enable people to share these attributes and make the most of all contributions in order to find creative solutions. We celebrate the successes this brings and build our resilience by learning from setbacks. |
Promoting wellbeing, citizenship and community |
We believe that everyone is a citizen with rights, responsibilities and a contribution to make to their community. This is only meaningfully possible when you have genuine wellbeing and are fully included in your community. This belief drives the work we do at Thistle so we know we must try to influence the unequal and discriminatory aspects of our society in order to change how things currently are. This requires us to share the ‘Thistle Approach’ more widely and in turn, learn from the world around us. To do this well we must continually reflect on what this means for us as individuals and as an organisation. |
You will support a very straightforward and highly educated man who works as an engineer and needs assistance with his computer and around complex care tasks due to spinal cord injury. Passionate about travelling – he spent several years in the South East of Asia doing infrastructure work. It takes time to build a trustworthy relationship with new members of staff, especially around his complex care package.
This is a great opportunity if you would like to become skilled at complex care duties and challenge yourself to change someone else’s life.
Complex care, personal care, moving and assisting:
You will be responsible for the following duties:
(Experience desirable, but not essential as full training will be provided).
Other duties:
Personal Assistant’s attributes:
You will support a kind person who will engage in interesting conversations. At times, he will challenge you in order to achieve the best regarding complex care tasks. You will have to be resilient, willing to learn and able to establish a solid relationship, keeping a positive attitude. You will also have to show flexibility with the working schedule.
If you would like an informal chat about this vacancy please contact Federico.Marchiolli@thistle.org.uk