Community Care Assistant, North Locality - PKC13938

Main Purpose of the Role

Working within Perth & Kinross Council is more than a job, it's about being part of something meaningful. It's about being part of an organisation that puts people at the heart of all we do and provides opportunities to make a real difference by enhancing every life we touch.

We currently have the following opportunity:

Community Care Assistant (Fixed Term for up to 12 Months - Maternity Cover) - PKC13938
£34,424 - £37,784
North Locality - Perth and Blairgowrie

This role is ideal for individuals who are passionate about supporting people to achieve their personal outcomes and who can work flexibly across community and discharge pathways as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary team.

The Community Care Assistant (CCA) within the Home Assessment and Reablement Team (HART) supports the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care and reablement services to individuals in the community, with a focus on maximising independence and achieving positive outcomes.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to timely assessment, care planning and review processes, supporting individuals to remain safely at home or return home following hospital discharge. This includes working within Discharge to Assess and prevention models to promote recovery, reduce reliance on long-term care, and support effective transitions across services.

This role will support rural areas within the North locality, with a hybrid base between Jessie Street, Blairgowrie and Pullar House.

You will have an active role in gathering and recording accurate information, monitoring progress, and identifying changes in need, ensuring that care and support is responsive and outcomes-focused. The role involves close collaboration with Coordinators, Reablement Assistants, Quality Monitoring Officers, and wider health and social care professionals to ensure continuity and coordination of care.

Through direct engagement with service users, families and carers, you will promote dignity, respect and choice, while supporting individuals to develop or regain skills for daily living. The role contributes to safeguarding, risk awareness, and the delivery of safe, effective care in line with organisational procedures, SSSC Codes of Practice and Care Inspectorate standards.

This is a fixed term post for up to 12 months to provide maternity cover.

Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this post.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential Experience

• Experience of working within a health or social care setting, supporting adults with a range of needs including frailty, physical disability, or cognitive impairment.
• Experience of delivering or contributing to person-centred care, including personal care and support with daily living activities.
• Experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams (e.g. Social Work, NHS, Care at Home providers) to support coordinated care.
• Experience of recording information accurately and maintaining clear, up-to-date records using electronic systems (e.g. Mosaic or equivalent).
• Experience of identifying changes in need and escalating concerns, including supporting safeguarding and risk management.

Essential Skills

• Strong commitment to person-centred, outcome-focused care, promoting independence and reablement.
• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals, families, carers and professionals, building positive working relationships.
• Ability to gather, interpret and share information to inform assessment, care planning and review processes.

Knowledge and Understanding

• Understanding of reablement approaches, supporting individuals to regain or maintain independence.
• Knowledge of self-directed support legislation and how this is delivered in practice.
• Awareness of relevant legislation, guidance and standards, including SSSC Codes of Practice and adult protection principles.
• Understanding of the importance of accurate documentation, confidentiality and information sharing.
• Knowledge of local resources within communities would be an advantage.
• Good organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and respond to changing demands within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work flexibly and independently, while contributing effectively as part of a wider team.
• Awareness of risk, safeguarding and duty of care responsibilities, with the ability to act appropriately.

 Qualifications and Requirements

• SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 6 (or equivalent), or willingness to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• You must have a valid UK driving licence, as this post requires travel to a variety of locations across Perth and Kinross.

Working at Perth & Kinross Council

Our values and behaviours influence our work and support us in the delivery of our key priorities. In your application, and should you be invited to interview, you will be asked to describe situations that support the criteria required in the role and which also demonstrate our values and behaviours. Find out more about Perth & Kinross Council and you could soon be joining our team!

Here's what we can offer you:

• A generous annual leave package
• 6 days public holiday and an additional discretionary day
• Eligibility to join our pension scheme
• Family friendly and positive work/life balance policies such as Flexible Working, Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave, time off for volunteering and our Wellbeing Framework
• Flexi time
• Access to a range of benefits

We recognise there can be benefits to flexible working and where individual jobs allow, we seek to support this. You are encouraged to discuss potential options with the recruiting manager, if this is of interest to you. A healthy work life balance is important to us and we provide supportive management and, where possible, flexible working arrangements to help you achieve that balance. You will have access to training and support for continued professional development.

For purposes of connection and collaboration with colleagues and with the community we serve, our full-time employees work on site for a minimum of 2 days per week with the arrangements for part time employees being agreed on a basis which will ensure that they benefit to an equivalent degree.

Our FAQs on hybrid working can be found here Hybrid working FAQs

All new employees have a four-month probationary period. Further details are available in the FAQs at “How to apply for a job or apprenticeship with us”.

Next Steps

We would love to hear from you and would encourage you to get in touch with Nicola Gibson, Team Leader on or email NGibson@pkc.gov.uk to find out more.

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External candidates are required to provide contact details for 2 referees, including email addresses. One of these must be your current or most recent employer.

Internal applicants applying for secondment must obtain line manager approval through the secondment form available under My Forms – Secondment Request Form on MyView. Please note that secondment requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

We welcome applications from everyone and as a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee to interview applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential requirements of the post. Please contact the the hiring manager above or the Recruitment Team on or recruitment@pkc.gov.uk to discuss any reasonable adjustments. Appointments are based on evidence supplied during the selection process.

Diversity is important to us and although some of our jobs may be perceived to be traditionally gender specific, we welcome applications from everyone and would encourage you to apply if you meet the job requirements. That includes welcoming applications from former armed forces personnel/reservists. Many of the skills picked up during your military career could be transferred directly into a role with local government.

Working with children and/or protected adults is regarded as a regulated role and under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 you will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check and maintain your membership.

If you have lived overseas for a period of 12 months or more (continuous or total) within the last 10 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check.

A confirmed offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of the above mentioned mandatory pre-employment checks (including references) and will also include eligibility to work in the UK, qualifications and fitness to undertake the post.