What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Do you want to make a difference in someone else's life? Do you want to work for a charity that really value their people? One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear: we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues. Benefits & USP’s:
1. £13.12 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 / PVG
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:
Who will you be supporting?
The service is a supported living service, supporting one young lady.
She requires extra support in the community due to her needs
All staff must be trained in the safe management of medication and first Aid
What is important to us? What activities do I like to do? Swimming, Art and crafts, trips out walking, bike rides ,Baking
My interests are Disney and watching videos on You tube
What are my aspirations? To find a suitable volunteering placement How do I like to explore our local communities? Walking or by Car with two staff members. How I like to describe myself? Friendly, beautiful smile, I like to do things in my own time. What types of people would we get along with and not get along so well with? I like people who are very calm and relaxed and don’t rush me, a great communicator and doesn’t use to many words. Other important information? How many colleagues are on shift at any one time? 2 staff members ,from 4pm staff member would be lone working until 10am the next day. What shifts do you work on? 10.00-23.00 sleep until 3pm the next day with and also a 10am – 6pm What do we need from you and what training would we give the staff that join us to be able to support the people at this service to be of their abilities? To have experience with adults with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge.
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.