What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a dedicated and compassionate health and social care professional with Complex Care experience for a Service Leader based in Newcastle Upon Tyne
This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership skills while making a meaningful impact every day supporting people to “Live Lives Bolder”
Our Benefits:
🌟Salary of £ – £ per year (depending on experience)
🌟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 senior leaders
🌟33 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
🌟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 Bolder’
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:
We are 6 young adults in our 20’s and 30’s and share one thing; how different and unique we all are. We are all mobile and like to get out and about. Some of us may require different levels of support in our home or in the community. We have different challenges in our lives which include learning difficulties, communication, and autism.
We have a large staff team at Ridgewood who are all trained to support us and our needs.
🌟What is important to us
Our homes – we are very proud of our own bungalows and have decorated them the way we like them with our own favourite things
Being busy - we all like different things these can include shopping, music, gaming, eating out, cinema, theatre, the park, going for walks, going on public transport, bowling, days in the country and many, many more.
Having Fun - we like to have fun at Ridgewood and have a laugh with our staff team. We love going out and having fun but we also love being as independent as possible in our bungalows. We also sometimes have parties and crafts in bungalow 1 (the office) and in the garden - this is where we can all get together and have parties and barbeques
Our Staff - we like warm, friendly, and kind staff we would not like anyone who is too loud or bossy but hopefully you like to laugh and sing It would be great if you’d like to work us especially if you are fun, like going out on adventures – we promise you no two days are the same!
Our Home - There are 7 Bungalows at Ridgewood Number 1 is an office for staff The other 6 are for us we have our own tenancies and are decorate our homes how we like We each have a large bathroom, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, plus a lounge and a private garden. Our neighbours are all amazing as our neighbours are each other, we have our own little street. We have private parking which you can use to park your car We have a shared car for outings
🌟About You
Experience working in a complex care 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 different challenges in their lives which include learning difficulties, communication, and autism that require intensive support planning and management to ensure their safety and quality of life at all times.
🌟Experience and Knowledge
1. Leading and motivating a team of support workers
2. Driving high standards of care and service delivery
3. Promoting a positive, inclusive, and empowering culture
4. Ensuring services are well-resourced and compliant
5. Supporting with CQC registration and quality assurance
This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your leadership skills while making a meaningful impact every day supporting people to “Live Lives Bolder”
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:
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:
6. Patience
7. Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
8. A strong work ethic
9. Reliability
10. Honesty
11. Determination
12. A problem Solver
13. Resilience