What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Fully flexible full-time Support Worker - must be able to work weekends and waking nights 37.5 hours per week. £12.62 per hour based in LE4 postal code of Leicester. Benefits
1. £12.62 per hour
2. Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
3. 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
4. Managed by supportive leaders
5. 28 Days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays (for full time, part time is worked out on a pro-rata basis)
6. Pension Scheme
7. No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
8. Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
9. We will pay for your DBS
10. Shopping Discounts Scheme
11. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
12. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
13. 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:
At this service we have 4 people we support, two have lived here for approximately 14 years.
We also have 2 other people we support who live extremely close by, we have a gentleman who lives in the building directly next door, to our service, and we have a lady we support who currently lives round the corner, who we also support.
Our staff team have all their general training along with some additional training in Learning Disabilities and Mental Health and we are awaiting some more specific training. We are proud of our great longstanding staff team who know us very well. We enjoy dancing, shopping, cooking/baking, listening to music and watching movies.
Our separate interests are one of us loves ABBA, one of us is a shopaholic, one of us loves to volunteer at the local temple and one of us loves to spend time visiting family. We like our staff to be down to earth, engaging, encouraging and caring.
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