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. 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 different in lots of ways (That’s what makes us so interesting) with our ages ranging between 37 and 66 years old.
19. We all have individual needs, including mobility issues, non-verbal communication, and require personal cares, only one of us being independent.
20. We all have different challenges in our lives which include autism, learning disabilities, dysphagia, and communication difficulties.
21. We have a staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting us with our needs.
What is important to us?
22. We are all proud of the house we live in and how homely it is with all our bedrooms individual and personalised to us.
23. We enjoy going for days out, meals out, concerts and going to the theatre. We enjoy listening to music and one of us is in a band and has a drum kit and karaoke in our bedroom and also is a DJ
24. One of us go to a day centre 4 times a week, one of us attend purple patch once a week and one of us attends college four times a week and a music hub on a Monday. In the summer months we like to spend time in the garden.
25. One of our aspirations is to carrying on making albums with the band and maybe become famous one day, with bigger gigs including festivals. We also aspire to stay healthy and safe in our own home.
26. We like to go shopping in our village and one of us likes to go to the train station and watch the trains or take a ride.
Other information?
27. Our maximum staffing levels are four staff in the morning and afternoon, one waking night and one sleep in. Our minimum staffing levels would be two staff in the morning and afternoon, one waking night and a sleep in.
28. Are shifts vary depending on our activities but our usual shifts are 7-2, 2-9, 2-10 sleep and 9-5
29. We need you to enjoy the same activities that we enjoy doing on a day-to-day basis. You should be caring, friendly and empathetic. We will train you in all mandatory training as well as any specialised training needed in our house.
Your values:
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