Support Worker
Community Integrated Care
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United Kingdom
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!
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’.
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 100 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.
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:
- We are three young male adults that live in a 3 bedroomed detached property on Woodlands Drive.
- We are all trying to be independent and living our best lives possible, and to gain new skills and reachable goals.
- We are non-verbal, but understand most things that are spoken about.
- We all have autism and some learning difficulties.
- The staff team all work towards our best interest and go on all relevant training to accommodate our wishes.
- It is important to us, that all staff encourage us to look smart.
- We enjoy listening to music and going on our iPad.
- We all enjoy going out. This could be a drive, shops, cinema, bowling or a walk.
- We would like our staff to have our best interest at heart and follow up with our healthy eating and all appointments.
- We would like all staff to be respectful towards are needs/requirements and to be consistent with staffing levels.
- We usually have 4 members of staff supporting us throughout the day and one working night staff to assist when required.
- The staff here tend to work a twelve our shift working a 9am till 9pm. The night staff are usually working a 9pm till 9am.
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.
If you are interested in learning more about the role before submitting your application, please feel free to contact Kellie, our recruitment specialist, for a friendly informal chat on 07749 434 055, or email [email protected]
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.