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:
Who will you be supporting?
18. Currently two Gentlemen who live together at this service, both gentlemen have lived together for many years in different environments.
19. Both gentlemen require full care and support in all areas of their daily living skills.
20. There is a requirement for specific training which includes Epilepsy, Buccal Midazolam, Moving and Positioning, Safety interventions training and Dysphasia and Eating & Drinking
What is important to us?
21. Our excellent staff team that is fully trained in aspects of care
22. Our staff organise activity events for to support us to, we do not always go together to the activities, we do both have our own preferences. Our activities do include a mix of going to the disco, sensory room, days out, bus rides, out for meals.
23. Our interests are going out as much as we can as we love being out doing things we love with our support team
24. Our support team are to ensure we have everything we need to live a fulfilled life.
25. We do require our support team to fully support in all areas of our care and support needs and to ensure we remain safe.
26. We are unable to use oral spoken language however when getting to know us you will get to learn our ways of communicating.
27. We need our support staff to be patient with us, give us time to adjust to new people, and places.
28. We need staff to be caring and understanding..
Other Important Information?
29. Two staff on shift 24/7, on three days there will be an extra staff member to support with activities.
30. We have a mixture of shifts which include 08:00-20:00hours, 08:00-14:00hours, 14:00-21:00hours, 20:00-08:00hours.
31. We need you to be patient, we love to go out on activities, enjoy your job supporting us to live a full life
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.