What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Fully flexible Support Worker £12.62 per hours for LE3 postal code of Leicester. 35 hours per week, you will be fully flexible around these shift patterns. 8am -10pm, 3-10pm, 8am-3pm, 10pm-8am and 10pm -9am. Benefits include:-
1. £12.62per 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. Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
11. Shopping Discounts Scheme
12. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
13. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
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:
There are 6 of us that live together and we vary in age from 28-64, we are all very different and we have various conditions some of us have mental health conditions some of us have learning disabilities and some of us have a physical disability. Our staff team are trained in Epilepsy and Buccal Midazolam, Moving and Positioning. We are proud of who we are and how we live our lives, we like to make our own decisions and be supported to in the way we choose. We like to be listened to so that we can live our best lives possible and bolder. Some of us like to dance and some of us like to listen to music, some of us enjoy a game of bowling, playing bingo. We love watching TV and documentaries, and we are sociable and like to be around our family and friends. All of our interests vary: We are all fun loving, outgoing, kind and caring and we all have individual goals in life but our main aim is to live the lives that we want making choices for ourselves and living our lives to the fullest. We are all happy to travel to different areas by train, taxi, car, bus, providing we are not stuck at home daily because we love going out. We don’t like people who tell us what to do or make decisions for us, we like to be the focus when you are with us we don’t want you wearing headphones or talking to others on your phones, we want people who listen and encourage our independence, we like people who listen to what we are saying.
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