What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Are you passionate about supporting others, and delivering truly person centred care? Are you an experienced care professional, with a wealth of experience? Do you want to enable the people we support to live their best lives possible? Not with just the usual day-to-day routines, like cooking and cleaning. But also, the fun things in life too! Going out into the local community, or further afield! Going for a coffee, or a walk? Or maybe a trip out with the rest of team, to a disco? Or swimming? The possibilities are endless! There are other great benefits too: -
1. Wear your own casual clothes, as we do not have a uniform!
2. Shopping discounts scheme - free blue light card
3. DBS paid for by us!
4. You will be entitled to 28 days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays for full time, (part time is worked out on a pro-rata basis) and a workplace Pension scheme too
5. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
6. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
7. Financial Hardship Fund
8. Free wellbeing advice and support options
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: We have permanent part-time shifts available, (22.5hours per week) which include morning and evening day shifts, alternate weekends and sleeps. The ideal candidates will have a full UK driving licence! This particular role is at a specialist supported living service, in a vibrant and exciting purpose built development in Hailsham. There are 10 self contained flats, as well as communal areas and gardens too. Each of the people we support that live there, have their own passions and aspirations, as well as many skills and talents. They are individuals with different support needs, interests and life goals! They are already making great strides to living their best life possible, with the help of their friendly and knowledgeable staff team. The focus is on independence, choice and there is a great team spirit too! The people we support, care deeply about each other and the staff team as well. Everyone does their best to nurture these relationships with social events such as communal cooking, watching TV and trips out together. This post is exempt from the Equality Act (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement. 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 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 & support.
People's values are important to us, so we are looking for people with:
- Bubbly and Friendly personalities- A can do attitude- Team working skills- Kind, calm and caring natures- Patience- Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others- Reliability and honesty