Care Assistant

Fife Council
📍 Cowdenbeath, Scotland, United Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 29, 2026

Job Description

Job Details

To provide support for people within their own homes and their local community. This may be in a shared tenancy or a one-one basis where successful applicants may be lone working.

You will be provided with all necessary training such as Moving and Handling, Dysphagia and lone working where required.

  • Auto enrolment onto the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
  • Enhancements of time and a third for unsocial hours which is from 8pm to 7am and all weekend hours.
  • Sleepovers are paid at the SGLW rate.
  • 32 annual leave days rising to 37 days after 5 years.
  • This role includes dayshifts, backshifts, sleepovers and nightshifts and weekend working.

    The Person

    Must have or be willing to achieve in the first period of registration, the Social Services and Healthcare SCGF level 5 (equivalent to SVQ2) or equivalent to meet Scottish Social Services Council registration.

    Communication skills, organ...

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    Job Details

    • Location Cowdenbeath, Scotland
    • Job Type Full-time
    • Category Home Health and Personal Care Aides; and Nursing Assistants, Orderlies, and Psychiatric Aides
    • Posted Date June 29, 2026
    • Application Deadline August 08, 2026