What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Are you Patient, Caring and Supportive?Do you want to make a difference to someone's life, and provide truly person centred support?Are you passionate, with a Full UK Driving Licence?If the answer is yes then we want to hear from you. You may be an experienced care professional, or you might be new to the sector, if you have experience of caring or supporting someone else, whether that be professionally or it could be looking after a family member, friend, or volunteering then we would encourage you to talk to us. Your values, compassion and work ethic are what makes you unique. We will do the rest so don't worry. We have a brilliant team of experts to hand who will welcome and support you. We provide some of the best training that you can expect working within a large charity to make you a skilled support worker. Most importantly we need you to engage in your favourite hobbies together with the people we support. This enables them to live their best life possible. With these great benefits too!
1. £23,.03 per annum
2. Wear your own casual clothes, as we do not have a uniform!
3. Shopping discounts scheme and free blue light card!
4. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
5. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
6. Financial Hardship Fund and salary advance scheme
7. Free wellbeing advice and support options
8. DBS application paid for by us
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard enriching the lives of the people we support, 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 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.
‘This role is an hourly paid role at £11.94 hourly rate. The salary advertising is an example of the annualised salary for someone working 37.5 hours a week. If you work part time, this will differ’
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
•Who we are and what are our age ranges? The people who live there are varying in age from 50-62
•What challenges we have? All 4 people have limited verbal communication, but can make them selves understood and what they might have. We have 3 people who have seizures which staff need to be able to follow plans in place.We have lots of music and dancing, healthy well cooked meals with fresh ingredients.
•We have lots of personal care which staff need to be comfortable with and treat people with the dignity and respect they deserve.
•We need staff who are able to drive as we have mobility cars that need to be used and people we support to be encouraged to go out. ( this has been a difficult process after lockdown asthey have become quite comfy staying in.)
•What are the staff team who support us trained in. staff need to have medication training finance training, moving and repositioning.
What is important to us
All people we support are all individuals with differing needs goals and its about reading support plans and spending time with them to see what they need from staff to enhance their lives and support them to reach their goals and inspire their dreams.
Other information
There are differing shift patterns we have 2 staff on from 7am-8pm every day and a sleep in each day. So the sleep in shift starts at 12 noon until 12 noon next day.
Your values: Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive employer, where all colleagues feel they belong. We want to an organisation that is truly fair and equal to all – where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics celebrated and everyone feels able to bring their true selves to work. By encouraging and embracing a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, capabilities and viewpoints, we will build a stronger, richer, more vibrant workforce, which reflects the people we support, and the communities in which we work. It helps us make better decisions, bring fresh ideas and become a true provider and employer of choice.
We have a really clear plan to achieve this called A Place I Belong. This publicly sets out the promises we’ve made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there. You can read more about this by clicking here.
We wish you the very best of luck in your application to joining our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact [email protected]
Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.