What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Benefits & USP’s: This is a Full Time post - 37.5hrs pw...mainly days, but some nights may be required.
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. We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
11. Guaranteed & Contracted Hours
12. Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
13. Shopping Discounts Scheme
14. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
15. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
16. Financial Hardship Fund
17. 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:
A brand new, purpose built Extra Care Scheme consisting of 50 Self-Contained apartments - 40 of which are one-bedroomed, 5 are two-bedroomed, and 5 are adapted single person occupancy. Based in Ash Brow, HD2. The service has its own Café and garden spaces for the people we support to engage socially together and get some quiet outside their homes. The service has a large driveway to reach the main entrance with parking on site for staff, residents and visitors. Staff are on site 24 hours to provide support where needed and in emergency situations.
What is important to us
18. We will want people who support us to be as independent as possible within our homes and promote social inclusion.
19. We will want people who can get to know us and have similar interests to get us more involved within our local and wider community.
We are keen to hear from local people who have an interest in supporting this local community initiative in delivering positive outcomes to the tenants. This will involve all aspects of Care/Support to include:
20. Personal Care
21. Moving and Positioning
22. Assistance with Medication/Meals etc.
23. Dementia Care
24. Emergency First Aid.
Please note shift patterns as follows: Morning - 6.30am to 2.00pm Afternoon - 2.00pm to 11.00pm Nights - 11.00pm to 6.30am
Your values:
What essential skills and experience is needed for the role?
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