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. £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 / 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:
18. Who will you be supporting?
19. We support adults with all age ranges.
20. The needs of the people we support are Learning disabilities, sensory disabilities, physical disabilities and/or Autism.
21. Support Workers are trained in autism awareness, safeguarding adults, emergency first aid as well as all mandatory training.
22. What is important to the people that we support?
23. Some of us really want paid employment, whilst others are happy to be a volunteer with local organisations or in charity shops. Some of us would really like to be able to travel to and from work on our own, too!
24. We use public transport to travel from home to our workplace with our support workers. This helps us to be confident in our travel routes, safe when travelling and as independent as possible.
25. We are all hard-workers and great team-mates!
26. We want to be supported by people with a wide range of interests and hobbies, someone we can talk to about lots of things. We want Support Workers who can stand up for us at work and help us to set and achieve our goals.
Other important information?
27. There are up to 20 Support Workers working remotely at any one time. This number can change depending on how many people we support and who requires support on any given day.
28. Our support is bespoke to people’s needs, which means that our shifts vary widely. Our longest shift is 8:30am-4:45pm and our shortest is 10am-3:00pm.
29. We need flexibility and a willingness to travel around Merseyside and try new things. We will provide comprehensive training for all aspects of Support Work as well as coaching and guidance on role-specific tasks.
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