What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Community Integrated Care is currently seeking an experienced, dedicated and compassionate Health and Social Care Professional for (Service Leader - Level 2) position in Middlesborough. Are you looking for your next new challenge? Are you passionate about the care of others and experienced in leading your own team of support workers? Do you want to work for the UK's Leading health & social care charity? APPLY NOW! Benefits & USP’s:
1. Salary from £ to £, depending on experience
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 senior leaders
5. 25 Days annual leave exclusive 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 / PVG
10. Shopping Discounts Scheme
11. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
12. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
13. Financial Hardship Fund
14. 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:
About the service
15. Living this service is just me. I am 43 years old.
I require 1:1 support but from a distance as I like my team to appreciate my personal space. I live with Autism, Learning Disability and I am non-verbal but can communicate in other ways. I would like my team to have experience in the conditions I live with and who can meet my needs. I appreciate confident and respectful team members who will adhere to my support plan and engage confidently with me
16. Sensory needs are very important to me and the environment around me.
17. I prefer being supported from afar and have a desire for people to support from behind me rather than in my space.
18. I love watching films and have my favourite movies.
19. I am a big foodie and have a sweet tooth, I love icing and decorating cakes.
20. When I go to day service I have a specific driver/taxi that is familiar to me. Mum and Dad help sometimes too.
21. I go to Cumberland Day Service Monday to Friday 10am-2pm.
22. I love listening to the radio.
Routine is really important to me
23. This is a lone working service.
24. Shifts will be starting initially with transition but will eventually be days, nights, waking nights and weekends
25. In order to support me to have the Best Life Possible my team will have specialist training in Positive Behaviour Support, total communication, autism and learning disabilities.
We are looking for a leader with experience working in a health or social care setting, you will have an upbeat positive manner, as well as having a genuine passion for supporting people to become a part of their local and wider community.
You will also have experience working with people supported who present behaviours that require intensive support planning and management to ensure their safety and quality of life at all times.
In addition you will be comfortable using basic IT systems that are required within the role - training can be offered to support this area. You will also hold a professional qualification in Health and Social Care, i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, SVQ Level 3 plus supervisory units (Scotland) / Care Management Level 3 (England).
Your values:
This is a great opportunity to make a genuine difference, where you will be responsible for leading an engaged and motivated team to change lives and deliver person-centred outcomes for every person we support. You will also take the lead by driving performance, setting the pace and direction within services, promoting a positive and passionate culture, and ensuring that services are appropriately and effectively resourced to change lives for the better. 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