Primary Care Worker jobs

Location: Harry Heaney Day Centre, Rutherglen - base, Rutherglen Locality
Hours: 37hrs per week, permanent
Salary / Hourly Rate: £29,612 - £29,979

South Lanarkshire Council is seeking a compassionate and dedicated Day Care Worker to deliver high-quality, outcome-focused care to individuals using our services. This role is central to supporting people to achieve their personal outcomes while ensuring their health, safety, and wellbeing within legislative and council frameworks.

You will play a key role in maintaining a safe, supportive, and person-centred environment, working collaboratively with service users, families, and professionals.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, review, and support plan the needs of individuals to ensure high standards of care and positive outcomes
• Deliver direct care, including support with mobility and personal care where required
• Facilitate group activities, individualised support, and passenger assistance duties
• Maintain accurate, timely records of care and support provided
• Work in partnership with families, social workers, and external organisations
• Ensure adherence to all health and safety policies, including risk assessments
• Contribute to a safe, secure, and inclusive environment for all service users
  

What will You bring

You will have experience working as part of a social care or healthcare team and feel confident supporting individuals with personal care needs, including moving and assisting. You’ll be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, and have competent IT skills to support record‑keeping and daily tasks.

You will support individuals to take part in a range of physical and recreational activities, helping to promote independence, wellbeing, and participation. You will also be willing to undertake all mandatory training and demonstrate a positive commitment to ongoing learning and development.

We are looking for a motivated and reliable individual, who bring a caring, professional approach to their work. You will be flexible and adaptable, able to respond positively to changing priorities while reminding dependable and trustworthy all the time.

You should be friendly, approachable, and confident in communicating with others, building positive relationships, with colleagues and members of the public. A commitment to equality, diversity, and respectful, inclusive practice is essential, as is the ability to work with honesty, integrity and professionalism.

If you take pride in your work, value teamwork, are motivated to make a positive contribution, we would love to hear from you.

Desirable Skills and Qualifications

You may already hold, or be willing to work towards, an SVQ Level 2 or 3 in Social Care, or an HNC in Social Care. Experience using Microsoft Office applications would be an advantage.

If you require to submit any further additional information to support your application (not a CV), please upload this under supporting documents.

Please Apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address

Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale, you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.

Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020.

This post is considered a Regulated Role with Adults, in respect of the Disclosure Scotland Act 2020. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with Adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

Please refer to http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk for further information about the disclosure process and best practice.

Overseas Criminal Records Check

An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of 12 months in the past 10 years.

Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check. The check must be translated into English and should come from the police, judicial authority, government department or home embassy of the country or countries concerned. The check must include an official statement confirming that the applicant does not have any history of or pending criminal record proceedings. Checks may be carried out to authenticate the documents provided.

Equal Opportunities and Inclusion statement

The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion in its workforce. Therefore, we welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under-represented groups within our workforce. We are keen to receive applications from candidates who have a disability, who are from a care experienced background, who are from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, from a military service background and from those who are new Scots.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile for this position.

As proud holders of the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, the Council is also committed to supporting members of the armed forces community, including service leavers, veterans, reservists and their families. In line with this commitment, service leavers, their close family members, veterans and reservists will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
• To increase the value of their pension pot, Local Government Employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave enhanced leave.
• Employee Discounts – including discounts at the cinema.
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)

South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas, market towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town.