What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Experienced Support Worker – located in the Beeston/Toton area of Nottingham NG9. 12 Month's Fixed Term Contract. 37.5 hrs. | £12.62 ph. You’ll bring a happy, upbeat attitude and be ready to support with a variety of activities, be a great team player and connect well with family members.
‘We are passionate about our people and every year we invest heavily in our front-line worker pay, in line with the Living Wage increase each April. This means that from 1st April, our payrate for this role will be increasing to £13.12 per hour.’
Benefits include:-
1. £12.62. New Rates of Pay £13.12 Effective from 1st April
2. Do what you love – meaningful work that never feels like “just a job”
3. Work for a multi award‑winning Charity that reinvests all profits back into the people we support, our workforce, and our communities
4. Supportive, accessible leadership
5. 28 days annual leave including bank holidays (pro‑rata for part‑time)
6. Pension scheme
7. No uniform required – wear your comfortable, casual clothes
8. DBS paid for by us
9. Work in one consistent location
10. Spend your full shift with the person you support, creating real impact
11. Shopping Discounts Scheme
12. Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities
13. Recommend a Friend bonus scheme
14. Wellbeing investment and support
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities, committed to enriching the lives of people with diverse care needs. We provide innovative, person‑centred support across England and Scotland, guided by the principles of choice, dignity and respect — reflected in our vision “Your Life, Your Choice” and our strategy “Best Lives Possible.”
We’re proud of our strong values and our award‑winning approach, with over national and regional recognitions in the past two years.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our Support Workers go the extra mile, and we invest in their pay, wellbeing, training and development. We provide all the support and equipment needed for the role and offer plenty of opportunities to grow a rewarding career with us.
Our mission & strategy: We're a multi-award winning charity that exists to ensure our colleagues and the people we support live the best lives possible. In, we launched our new strategy - Best Lives, Bolder. Find our more here. Our Best Lives, Bolder Strategy - Community Integrated Care
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
We are a friendly group aged 27–62 who enjoy having a laugh together. We live in a three‑bedroom bungalow with a staff room and a large grassed back garden with trees and fields behind it. We live with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Myoclonic Absence Epilepsy, learning disabilities and Type 2 diabetes, and we need support with communication, budgeting, medication, shopping and our health. We enjoy day centres, voluntary jobs, walking, garden centre visits, shopping, meals out, cinema trips, bowling, singing, dancing and chatting over a cup of tea. Our interests include gaming, films, shopping, cars, TV programmes, singing, dancing and keeping on top of appointments. We have shifts that normally start at 10am (sometimes 9am) and finish at 8pm, with shorter shifts when needed for our activities. We also have sleep shifts from 10pm to 7am.
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