Support worker

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Do you want to make a difference in someone else's life? Do you want to work for a charity that really value their people?One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear: we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues.Benefits & USP’s:

£13.12 per Hour

Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work

Work for a multi award-winning Charity that invests all it profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities

Managed by supportive leaders

28 Days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays (for full time, part time is worked out on a pro-rata basis)

Pension Scheme

No uniform - we wear our casual clothes

Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns

We will pay for your DBS / PVG

We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver

Guaranteed & Contracted Hours

Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives

Shopping Discounts Scheme

Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities

Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme

Financial Hardship Fund

Investment in your wellbeing

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enriching the lives of people with many different care needs. It’s exciting and rewarding work, and we’re full of pride and passion for what we do.

Since the early days, we’ve grown to provide many innovative and bespoke care services to thousands of people across England and Scotland. We want to provide support based on the principles of choice, dignity and respect. This resonates in our vision of ‘Your Life, Your Choice’ and our strategy ‘Best Lives Possible’.

We have strong values and we’re proud to pioneer new ways of delivering social care to stand out in our sector. In the past two years, we have won or made the shortlist for over national and regional awards!

We are also focused on our people. Our Support Workers are dedicated and passionate about going ‘the extra mile’ for the people we support and in return, we go the extra mile for them by investing in pay, recognition, wellbeing and continued professional and personal development. We will provide you with all the training, support and personal protective equipment you need in your role and will help you develop, should you decide you want to develop your career with us.

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

Who will you be supporting?

We are different in lots of ways (that’s what makes us so interesting) with our ages ranging between 34 to 70.

Most of us are fairly mobile but some need a little bit of physical assistance to get around our home and out and about. We have different challenges in our lives which include visual and hearing impairment, autism and learning disabilities. We have a staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting someone with similar needs.

What is important to us?

We enjoy outdoor activities, including walking, as well as regular indoor activities, such as dancing, buffets, and parties.

Other interests we have are listening to music, coming together in the communal room and playing pool.

We are fun loving, kind, caring, considerate, respectful of other people’s personal space and belongings and have a love of music.

We would not enjoy spending time with people who are bossy, pushy, running around, shouting or very noisy as it would tend to make a few of us upset.

Other important information?

There are always at least 3 colleagues on shift, during the day, and 2 during the night.

All of our team have years of experience collectively at this service alone, and know the service users incredibly well.

We like our staff to work days from 8am to 8pm, and nights 8pm to 8am.

In order to support us to have the Best Life Possible our team have specialist training in hearing impairment, autism and learning disabilities.

Your values:

We know it takes a special person to work in social care and we recognise that not everyone that would be perfect for the role, will have professional experience. This is why we're really passionate about recruiting to individuals’ values and we recruit people from all walks of life; From people with vast experience in a support worker or care assistant role, from people with lived experiences who may have friends or relatives with disabilities or have looked after older relatives, to people with no experience at all.

Naturally it is important too that you share our company values - We Include; We Deliver; We Aspire; We Respect; We Enable, which are at the heart of everything we do and ensure that we deliver high quality, consistent care and support. People's values are important to use, so we look for people with:

- Patience
- Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
- A strong work ethic
- Reliability
- Honesty
- Determination - A problem solver
- Resilience