What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: 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. 25 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: At our services there are 11 of us altogether but we live in 5 separate properties. These are all in the same street and we all enjoy spending time with each other. All of us get along and have a good relationship. Four of us live at number 1 Sycamore Way and four of us live at number 2 Sycamore Way. Number 3 Sycamore Way shares support with number 2, one gentleman lives in this bungalow. Number 4 and number 10 Sycamore Way are also bungalows, these 2 bungalows have been wheelchair adapted to meet our needs. One lady lives in each of these bungalows
18. We all have different hobbies and interests but we all still like to spend time together.
19. We all enjoy going out within our community, especially on shopping trips or going out for meals. Some of us also enjoy more physical activities such as going to discos, bowling, dancing, playing pool or going to the gym. We need your support to be able to do this.
20. We also like to practice a variety of hobbies and interests whilst at home such as puzzles, board games, baking, art and crafts and having karaoke parties. We often like it when you join in with our activities alongside us.
21. Maintaining our relationships with the people we love is very important to us and we will need your support to be able to do this.
22. We like our staff to have similar interests to us. They must be kind, caring and compassionate. We would not get along well with people who are bossy.
23. We all have a really good sense of humour, it is important to us that we are surrounded by people who can make us laugh and share our jokes.
24. There is at least 1 staff member on shift in each house at all times. Shift times and patterns vary depending on the house, from 24 hour sleepover shifts and 12 hour day shifts to the shorter 1:1 shifts which are usually around 6 to 8 hours long.
25. In order to support us to have the best life possible, our team has specialised training in all the areas we require support.
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