What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Benefits & USP’s:
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. And so, if you start with us between now and 31 March your pay with be £11.94ph and then from the 1April this will increase to £12.62ph
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
10. We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
11. Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
12. Shopping Discounts Scheme
13. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
14. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
15. Financial Hardship Fund
16. 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:
17. We are different in lots of ways (that’s what makes us so interesting) with our ages ranging between 22 to 54
18. We are all mobile and quite independent only needing verbal prompts.
19. We all have different challenges in our lives which include autism, learning disabilities and mental health.
20. We have a staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting us with our needs.
What is important to us
21. We are all proud of the house we live in and how homely it is with all our bedrooms been personal to us
22. We like to go shopping, playing bingo, meals out, concerts, the theatre and just socialising in general
23. Two of us like to go to our day centres. We all like to do arts and crafts, making our own decorations for special occasions
24. Two of us are aspiring to move out of Jackson Avenue in the future and living independently
25. We all like to use the local amenities which includes Roundhay Park which is in walking distance from our home. We also use the local shops and bars
26. We are sociable, friendly, and like to have a laugh with our support team
27. We like to have female support and not male and we prefer individuals who are bubbly and fun to be around
Our Home
28. Our house is a Victorian detached with 4 bedrooms and a sleep-in room, located over 2 floors
29. Our house has 3 stories with a cellar underneath
30. We have a small garden located to the rear of the house, where there is room for a table and chairs in the summer. We also have a homemade bar
31. We share the lounge/dining room and kitchen area. We like to sit in the lounge on an evening and watch the TV and we prefer staff to be
elsewhere to give us some space
32. We are located on a main road with a good bus service, we have a bus stop right outside the property and one over the road
33. The neighbours to the right when looking at the property are very friendly, and he will always speak to us if he sees us out. We have had disputes in the past with the neighbours over the road to the left and the neighbour at the bottom of the rear garden.
34. There is parking down the side of the house as we are a corner plot
Other information
35. Minimum staffing would be one staff member on shift all day and night
36. It depends on our activities scheduled in for the week but our normal staffing levels are 2/3 staff between the hours of 8am and 9pm then one sleep in staff from 9pm to 8am.
37. We would expect you to be interested in the activities that we enjoy and support us on a day to day basis. You should be caring, friendly and empathetic. We will train you in all mandatory training as well as autism, learning disabilities and mental health to ensure you support us to our full potential.
Your values: What essential skills and experience is needed for the role?
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