JOB DESCRIPTION
NEW STRUAN SCHOOL
TITLE
Social Care Worker
LOCATION
New Struan School Residencies
ACCOUNTABLE TO
Team Leader
RESPONSIBILITY FOR STAFF None
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
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Co-operate with the Team Leader in providing a happy stimulating, caring and
secure home background for the young people together with a well-structured
programme of leisure activities and social skills training for each individual
young person.
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Do everything possible to help create good working relationships and full cooperation between care workers, teaching staff, administrative and domestic
staff and part-time specialists.
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Play an active part in promoting good public relations in the locality so as to
increase public awareness of, and support for, the aims and objectives of the
Organisation as a whole and the community in particular.
MAIN TASKS
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Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding for the socialisation for a young
person with autism
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Collaborate in the assessment of each young person so that difficulties are
identified and latent talents developed.
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Implement programmes of meaningful leisure or recreational activities for each
Young person enabling them to acquire independence while at the same time
encouraging them to integrate as a group.
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Ensure that each young person is given appropriate training in social skills
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Keep adequate records of each young person’s progress and make regular
reports as required by the Service Manager and Team Leader
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When required attend internal case conferences and keep written records.
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Maintain good working relationships with care, instructional, night and
domestic staff.
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Maintain a high standard of good house keeping ensuring that bedrooms and
other areas are kept clean and tidy.
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Become familiar with the organisation’s health, safety and fire regulations and
ensure that they are strictly observed. In particular ensure that all drugs and
medicines are securely locked out of the reach of young people and that drugs
administered are entered in the drugs book provided.
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When necessary or appropriate, accompany residents to the dentist, doctor,
hairdresser, on shopping expeditions, etc.
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Ensure that matters concerning individual young people and their families are
kept strictly confidential to the residential office, community, its staff and
school managers.
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Undertake any specific tasks delegated by the Service Manager.
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Provide appropriate guidance, support and structure to enable young people
to benefit fully from the widest range of educational experiences.
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Provide such physical care as may be necessary when a young person is
unwell.
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Foster good relationships with young person’s parents and families.
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There may be a Sleep-in requirement for which the appropriate Sleep-in
Allowance will be paid.
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To carry out any other duties which may be agreed from time to time in
discussions with Service Manager and which relate to a young persons’
welfare and development.
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR RESOURCES
Finance
To follow directions necessary to comply with budgetary control and complete stock
and other records as required.
To obtain and distribute pocket money for young person and ensure that it is used in
a suitable manner.
Materials
To ensure that young people have a proper diet and are suitably clothed. To ensure
that a stock of items necessary for general and personal hygiene is maintained and
economically used.
To report any deficiencies in stocks of drugs and first aid items.
To comply with standard procedures in regard to the administration of medicines.
Property & Equipment
To ensure that any damage or deficiencies to the building, furniture and other
equipment are noted in the Repair and Maintenance book. Where such damage or
deficiency constitutes a hazard, to ensure that action is taken to remove such
hazard.
Professional Practice
To ensure that professional standards are constantly maintained in accordance with
the basic philosophy and operational policy of the Scottish Autism.
RELATIONSHIPS
To establish and maintain good working relationships with all staff. To provide
adequate opportunity for consultation in matters of disagreement and take such
steps as might be necessary to ensure that a satisfactory level of professional
practice is maintained.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES
It is in the nature of the work of the Social Care Worker that tasks and
responsibilities are, in many circumstances, unpredictable and varied. All staff are
therefore expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises that tasks,
which are not specifically covered in their job description, have to be undertaken.
These additional duties will normally be to cover unforeseen circumstances or
changes in work and they will normally be compatible with the regular type of work.
If the additional responsibility or task becomes a regular or frequent part of the
member of staff’s job, it will be included in the job description in consultation with the
member of staff.
SCOTTISH AUTISM
THIS SECTION DETAILS THE EXPECTATIONS THAT THE ORGANISATION HAS OF ALL
EMPLOYEES
All employees are expected to:
 Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and healthy working environment
 Successfully complete induction training and probationary targets
 Contribute to the protection of individuals from abuse (sexual, emotional, physical, financial)
 Positively promote professional and communicative relationships within the organisation, with
colleagues, with other professionals and agencies, with families and the wider community
 Positively promote the organisation, its services and the needs of people with autism in general
 Fully participate in systems which ensure full attention to confidentiality, equal opportunity and antidiscriminatory practice
 Seek to maintain and develop their own understanding of autism, its implications and appropriate
interventions
 Promote professional standards of service delivery in accordance with the organisation’s policies
and procedures
 Ensure that all administrative functions appropriate to the post are carried out in accordance with
stated policy and procedure and that appropriate records are maintained
 Contribute to the appropriate management of challenging behaviours
 Work with and contribute to the appropriate support of volunteers
 Mentoring, guidance and support other staff with similar responsibilities
These key tasks are not intended to be exhaustive but highlight a number of the major tasks and
responsibilities of the post.
Many of the organisation’s services are provided over a 24-hour period and consequently there may
be a requirement of a work pattern that includes shift work, irregular hours or sleepover shifts.
Some posts may also include participation in an on-call rota.
It is the nature of the work of the post that tasks and responsibilities are, in many circumstances,
unpredictable and varied. All staff are therefore, expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion
arises that tasks which are not specifically covered in their job description, have to be undertaken.
These additional duties will normally be to cover unforeseen circumstances or changes in work and
they will normally be compatible with the regular type of work. If the additional responsibility or task
becomes a regular or frequent aspect of the job, it will be included in the job description in consultation
with that post holder.
The job description may also be reviewed in light of changing service needs or developments in
consultation with the post holder.