What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Do you want to work for a charity that truly value their best, whilst helping someone live their best life?APPLY TODAY! Benefits & USP’s:
1. £11.94 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. We are 3 female adults & We all have some learning difficulties.
19. Ladies who support us do need to be passionate about supporting us to experience our best lives possible. We require our staff to have all of the mandatory training ie first aid, safe guarding etc and we also require staff to have epilepsy training and diabetes training
What is important to us?
20. What are we proud of? We are all proud of our independence and that we can get out in our local community. We are all proud of how we all look after each other every day
21. What activities do we to do? We like to experience new things and we like our support staff to encourage us to try new things.
22. What are our interests? Rugby, gardening, films, bowling, cooking, discos. We between us all have many interests and we do like to explore new interests. We all like to go on holiday
23. What are our aspirations? Our aspiration is to experience as many things as we can
24. How do we like to explore our local communities? We do walk outside in our local community. We will use taxis and one of the ladies does have her own car to use
25. How do we describe ourselves? We are all close and we do like to do a lot of stuff together. However in recent times we have begun to create new experiences just for each one of us. We are now finding our interest and support staff will need to encourage this to enable us to live the best live that we are able to do so.
26. What types of people would we get along with and not get along so well with? We like people who are easy going, adventurous, thinks outside of the box. Similar interest as ourselves and the someone who will encourage us to try new things. We like if someone has an interest in cooking as we do like to cook. We like someone to be organized and methodical as we are far from this at times. We like someone who understands that we do become anxious and that we do require reassurance from time to time especially when there is change.
Other important information?
27. How many colleagues are on shift at any one time? We have two/three support worker each day and if we having some one to one time we definitely have three support workers
28. What shifts do you work on? 08.00am/22.00pm sleep and then finish at 11.00am the following day x 1 staff member. 08.00am to 18.00pm x 2 staff members however these times can be flexible
29. What do we need from you? We like support to have effective communication skills as we do love to chat. Support staff need to be clear and direct in what your asking or telling us. Support with personal care and our appearance which is very important to us. Support staff who have patience as sometimes we are not able to express what we are saying ina manner that is clear to you. We are happy to repeat ourselves till you understand what we are saying
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.
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