Fife Council

Care Assistant

Fife Council  •  £27k - £29k/yr  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Various dates September/October 2026

Closing Date: Sunday 13 September 2026

Contract Type: Full time permanent

Salary Range - £26,786.83 - £29,170.80 per year pro rata

Working Pattern: shift work, including days, evenings, sleepovers, wakened nightshifts, weekends

Location: Levenmouth area

MALE ONLY APPLICANTS

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement

  • Providing a wide range of care and support to service users with Learning Disabilities and/or Mental health disorders to meet their assessed needs through goal setting objectives and in accordance with best practice taking account of Practice Standards. This role may include lone working, and all successful applicants will be expected to carry out all shift patterns on a rota basis, which include days, evenings, weekends, sleepovers and wakened nightshifts

  • Salary range is per year £26,786.83 - £29,170.80; this is a full-time post (36hrs per week) and a permanent contract. Enhancements for unsocial hours, sleepovers and public holidays are provided.

  • Fife Council will offer training and development to meet your SSSC registration requirements and will cover the cost of your annual SSSC registration. There is a generous annual leave allowance of 33 days, increasing to 38 days after 5 years’ service.

  • Auto enrolment onto the Local Government Pension Scheme (LCPS)

  • Employee access to the benefits package that offer discounts on a wide range of products and services.

The Person

  • To ensure you achieve registration with SSSC as part of the Social Care Workforce within 3 months of starting in a new role, you must apply for registration within 3 months of your start date on the Social Care Workforce - Support Worker register. To maintain your registration, you must hold or work towards the SSSC benchmark qualification for the role, complete the required Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) for the role and submit an annual declaration via MySSSC The benchmark qualification for this role includes SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF level 5 or social services children and young people SCQF

  • Keeping accurate records of outcomes focused support planning and review for the people whom you support. Ensuring changes in service user health and wellbeing, care plans, risk assessments etc. are recorded and communicated across the team. To work as part of a team liaising with colleagues to ensure an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to service

  • Ability to travel within Fife.

MALE ONLY APPLICANTS

Because of the nature of the duties of this post, it is an occupational requirement that the post holder be male, and the post is therefore exempt from the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 in terms of Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 of that Act.

Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

Further Information

  • Role Profile - when preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria Role Profile

  • How We Work Matters - Our employees are expected to display and promote certain behaviours in the workplace.  See our How We Work Matters Framework behaviour framework for more information. 

  • Employee Benefits - Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services 

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For Further Information Please Contact:james.mcgregor@fife.gov.uk

Fife Council

About Fife Council

Fife Council is committed to making the Kingdom the best place to do business. Fife Council is the third largest local authority in Scotland. We employ approximately 18,000 people who provide 900 different services to over 366,900 people. The services we provide range from education, social work, housing, and community services to transportation, looking after the environment and developing the economy.

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Industry
Government & Public Safety
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Glenrothes, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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