Workshop Leader (Woodwork) - L'Arche Highland
ABOUT THE ROLE
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, 08:30-16:30, but with occasional evenings and weekends as required
Salary: £26,280.80 (Band C))
Place of work: L’Arche Highland Workshops, based in and around Inverness
Contract type: Permanent, full-time
Closing date: Monday, 4th November, 9:30am
Are you an experienced social care leader looking for a rewarding role in a values-driven community? Join L'Arche Highland. Lead a dedicated team supporting adults with learning disabilities in our well-regarded daytime workshops for adults with learning disabilities within our diverse, inclusive community. With a unique spiritual ethos and commitment to high-quality, person-centred care, L'Arche Highland offers an enriching career path where you can make a real difference.
This role is ideal for someone who lives in or near Inverness and is looking for a leadership role in the social care sector.
As well as joining a friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L’Arche’s mentorship programme, these are some other benefits you get by working for us:
Main purpose of the role:
L’Arche Highland has a rare opportunity for someone to join us as the Workshop Leader of Woodwork in our well-regarded daytime workshops for adults with learning disabilities and autism in Inverness. The workshops offer a structured employment and learning experience via candle making, woodwork, garden and life skills workshops, enabling 50 people per week to experience meaningful work that is not merely occupational. They promote independence, social integration, healthy living and lifelong learning and seek to reduce isolation though relational support that cherishes mutuality.
Working within the joyful and beautiful environment of our workshops, you will lead the provision of the woodwork workshop which provides a work opportunities for people to fabricate wooden items or restore and upcycle furniture for sale. This role requires a knowledge of carpentry or cabinet making and practical experience of using woodwork tools safely.
To be successful in this role you will be well organised, creative and fun, a great communicator, adaptive and flexible. The post manages volunteers and directs assistants. Knowledge of learning disability is essential and alternative communication methods, such as Makaton, Talking Mats and PECS is desirable.
As Workshop Leader you will ensure that our support and care is not only consistent with Care Inspectorate, NHS Highland and SSSC requirements but also with the values and mission of L’Arche. An SVQ 2 0r 3 in Health & Social Care qualification is desirable.
Visits from prospective candidates are welcome. Please call Chris Gehrke, Community Leader/Director, on 01463-239615 for more information.
Key essential criteria
About us
L’Arche Highland is a Community of around 132 people, including folk with and without learning disabilities, Support Assistants, volunteers, friends and neighbours, based in Inverness. We are part of a global network of communities where people with and without learning disabilities live and share in life together, working for a world where we all belong. We have a workshop and four large shared houses. We also support people to live in their own properties.
We provide supported living opportunities in one of our four shared houses, keeping that original community spirit, or to folk in their own homes, depending upon preference and need. This support ranges from 24/7 one-to-one support to 40 hours per week. We also a dynamic workshop that serves 50 people per week to experience meaningful work that is not merely occupational. You will lead a team of workshop leaders and assistants to offer a productive, authentic work experience for attendees.
Visits from prospective candidates are welcome. Please call Chris Gehrke, Community Leader/Director, on 01463-239615 for more information.
You may have experience in the following roles: Supported Living Leader, Learning Disability Team Leader, Autism Support Leader, Care Team Leader, Service Leader, Deputy Care Leader, Learning Disability Service Leader, Community Support Leader, Social Care Team Leader etc.
A full job description and person specification can be found in the Recruitment Pack.
The closing date is 9:30am on Monday 4th November 2024.
Interviews will take place on 11th November 2024.
To apply, please read the full job description and person specification and answer the questions on our online application form.
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