What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Benefits & USP’s: For this vacancy, we require applicants to hold full UK Driving License
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. We will pay for your DBS
9. We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
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. Financial Hardship Fund
15. 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:
Who will you be supporting?
16. The people we support ages range between 23 to 31.
17. Each individual is quite independent and mobile, and they only need verbal prompts
18. Each individual we support all have different challenges which include Autism, learning disabilities and mental health
19. We have amazing staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting their needs
What is important to the people we support?
20. We are proud of the homely environment that we have created, we take pride in our home.
21. We like to go shopping, to the cinema, for meals out, parties, the theatre and just general socialising
22. We all have different day centres that we like to go to, our weekly planner is always full of activities to do throughout the week as some of us thrive of a structured routine and like to be busy.
23. One of the gentlemen in our home aspires to gain more independence by getting a volunteering job out in the community.
24. We all like to use the local amenities, We also use the local shops and bars.
What is the home like?
25. Our house is a Victorian detached property with 5 bedrooms and a sleep-in room, located over 3 floors
26. Our house has 3 stories with a cellar underneath
27. We have a small garden located to the rear of the house, were we like to have BBQs in the summer.
28. We also have a sensory room on the top floor of our home, where we like to host discos and do arts and crafts together.
29. We share the lounge/dining room and kitchen area. A couple of us like to sit in the living room while having dinner to watch TV, we really like watching the news.
30. We are located on a main road with a good bus service, we have a bus stop right outside the our home and one over the road.
31. We have an end house, so there is parking down the side of our home.
32. We get along with majority of our neighbours.
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