What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Are you looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to work for an organisation that truly value their people and want to help people live their best life possible? We are currently looking an Support Workers looking for a career with an award winning charity. 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. **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.
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
Who You Will Be Supporting? The people we support in this service are aged from 26 to over 50. This service offers a range of support from mainly Autism & Learning Difficulties. We have 12 apartments in the building and support our service users to live as independently as possible. We have a team of support worker from all different backgrounds, some have many years of experience in Health & Social Care and some that came to us with absolutely no experience at all. All we ask is that you are kind, compassionate and willing to learn. Everything else we are happy to train you in.
18. What is important to us?
19. We celebrate the individuality of each person that lives here, whether that person enjoys spending time in the garden or the communal lounge engaging with others or enjoying quiet time in the sensory room. We encourage our residents that enjoy doing different activities such as going shopping, going for meals and coffee to participate in community activates. Some of the activities you may be required to participate in include puzzles, crafts, singing and going for walk or days out. Supporting and encouraging our residents to try new things. Our residents enjoy having staff with them who are outgoing, kind, caring, friendly and have the ability to think outside of the box.
20. Other Information
21. We currently have 14 staff on during the daytime and 5 at night time. However, you may to worked individually to support our residents in their own flats. We over various shifts from long days, shorter days and waking nights with the odd sleep in.
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