What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
🎉 Why You'll Love Working With Us 💷 £14.81/hr – paid to do what you love 🏆 Multi award-winning charity with heart 👕 No uniforms 🕒 Guaranteed Hours 💬 Supportive managers who’ve got your back 💳 Shopping discounts & hardship fund 👯♀️ Recommend-a-friend bonus 📚 Ongoing training & career growth 💖 Make a real impact every shift 🛡️ We cover the cost of your PVG check 💼 Pension scheme 🌟 We invest in YOU – your wellbeing, your future. We’re Community Integrated Care – one of the UK’s biggest social care charities. We’re all about dignity, choice, and living your best life. Join us and help make “Your Life, Your Choice” a reality for thousands.
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
The people we support can be independent but may need some support to motivate them to be independently safe. They may also require reminding to look after themselves in a healthy manner. They will also require some reassuring around mobility and active support with cooking and household chores. It is important to them to support with routines, structure and consistency in their lives. They like people who are patient and take the time to get to know their needs, likes and dislikes. Activities they enjoy are listening to music, watching crime shows on TV, shopping, meeting dogs and other animals and spending time in their large garden. The house where they live in a new build in Turriff which has 3 bedrooms with 1 of the rooms for staff. There is always 1 colleague on shift and for sleepovers. In order to support to have Best Lives Possible, our team have training in autism and learning difficulties. Shifts include 7am to 3pm, 3pm to 11pm and sleepover is 11pm to 7am. Sometimes the people we support really need a male or female person to support them. For this particular role a female colleague is required. This is a genuine occupational requirement as defined by the Equality Act .
Your values:
The ideal candidate will have a Level 3 in Social Care and strong experience in mental health, autism and sensory communication, and physical health.
If you do not have a qualification, you will need to have experience in social care.
You will know how to connect with people and be passionate about supporting people to live independently. You will also be a brilliant mentor and share your skills and experiences with your colleagues.
We will develop your talents with a range of specialist training, including the opportunity to learn Positive Behaviour Support methods, Makaton and the Picture Exchange System.
During recruitment you will meet the people we support in their home. This will allow you to see their wonderful personalities first-hand and fully understand the level of support that they require.
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