Recruitment: Aspire Housing and Personal Development Services

Aspire is an employee-owned, award winning social care provider, winning at the highly prestigious Scottish Care National Awards every year in the past decade. As a well-established organisation, with 20 years’ experience, the company deliver Care at Home Services and Self-Directed Support Services and are committed to being part of the prevention and solution to ending homelessness as part of the Glasgow Alliance Group. At Aspire the team’s efforts are focused on helping the people they support have the most fulfilling and self-directed lives possible; they help people develop their confidence and skills and to realise their potential.

Due to Aspire’s reputation and the confidence in support provided by the company to people in the community, Aspire is growing the number of care packages within its services and is looking for experienced Social Care Support Workers to assist in the delivery of the care needs. Workers with the knowledge, training, and skills to provide quality Care at Home or Self-Directed Support Services, or workers who might prefer to join the team offering Housing Support Services. 

If you do not have the professional experience but do have life experience, Aspire would still love to hear from you.  Aspire will ensure you are provided with the necessary training you need, with training being delivered by the National Scottish Care Award Winning Learning & Development Facilitator or organised with training partners. Due to COVID-19 some training is delivered on-line, but you will also have the opportunity to shadow experienced Support Workers, while receiving strong support and leadership.

Care at Home and Self-Directed Support vacancies are within the North Lanarkshire, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire areas and you could be assisting people with a variety of physical disabilities or mental health issues. For instance, Aspire is looking for staff to provide support to a young gentleman who is on the Autistic spectrum and lives in his own home. There is currently a small, dedicated support team who provide support 24 hours a day which includes 1:1 support and additional 2:1 for activities that include cinema, travelling via his own car and sensory activities. Due to specific dietary requirements meal planning and preparations is advantageous. 

Alternatively, if you were to join the dynamic service team within the Glasgow area offering housing and practical and emotional support to individuals with a variety of support needs you would be supporting people within their own homes, engaging with the local community, engaging with recovery opportunities, and assisting people to live their best life as independently as possible.

Working to a rolling rota, full time and part time posts are available. Salaries are dependent on service and shift pattern that includes day shift, back shift and night shift weekend work.

Aspire is very proud of its workforce who every day do amazing work delivering quality support services that make a difference in someone’s life every day, work that can challenging but highly rewarding. If you share the company’s values for working in Social Care and feel passionate about helping and empowering people, Aspire would be delighted to hear from you. Other qualities the team look for in staff are a caring and thoughtful nature, compassion, enthusiasm, and commitment to supporting people in the community to achieve their personal aims and goals.

Aspire’s commitment to staff is competitive pay and holidays along with a referral recruitment scheme, a contributory pension scheme, an excellent 4x annual salary life assurance and eligible in work travel payments amongst other employee benefits. As an Employee-Owned organisation, eligible employees are also owners of Aspire via the Trust.

Aspire look forward to welcoming new employees to the family. The company’s priority is the safety of staff and the people they support, in the current COVID-19 environment Aspire can assure you that they are enforcing the current guidelines stringently and ensuring they keep everyone safe. The company’s front-line Support Worker role requires frequent Covid testing as part of Covid Health and Safety guidelines. 

If you are interested in continuing your Social Care career or making this a new career, contact the team to find out more about the core responsibilities and desirable qualities, qualifications and experience of the post holder and to apply visit www.aspireinc.co.uk or email info@aspireinc.co.uk