What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Benefits & USP’s:
* £11.94 per Hour
* Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
* Work for a multi award-winning Charity that invests all its profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities
* Managed by supportive leaders
* 28 Days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays (for full time, part time is worked out on a pro-rata basis)
* Pension Scheme
* No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
* Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
* We will pay for your DBS / PVG
* Guaranteed & Contracted Hours
* Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
* Shopping Discounts Scheme
* Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
* Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
* Financial Hardship Fund
* Investment in your wellbeing
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enrich 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 100 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:
What is important to us?
* We are 2 females who are proud of our independence and accessing our local community.
* We like to experience new things, and we like our support staff to encourage us to do this. We enjoy going out each day.
* We have a variety of interests including going for coffee and lunch, having a walk through the park, going to disco, and bingo.
* Our aspirations are to experience new things.
* We like to walk, and we have good links to Warrington, St Helens, and Liverpool by train.
* We are very independent although do require prompts.
* We need staff to be proactive and encourage us to experience new things and share similar interests.
Other information
* How many colleagues are on shift at any one time? There are 1-2 support workers each day.
* What shifts do you work on? Between 10am-11:00pm as well as a staff member on a sleep-in shift which starts at 10:00pm-10am although the shift is flexible throughout the day depending on what is going on.
* What do we need from you and what training would we give the staff that join us to be able to support the people at this service to be of their abilities? We like support to have effective communication skills as we do love to chat. Support staff need to be clear and direct in what you are asking or telling us as we can neglect ourselves especially with personal care and appearance.
Your values:
We know it takes a special person to work in social care and we recognize that not everyone that would be perfect for the role will have professional experience. This is why we're really passionate about recruiting individuals’ values and we recruit people from all walks of life; from people with vast experience in a support worker or care assistant role, to 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 us, so we look for people with:
* Patience
* Empathy, compassion, and sensitivity to others
* A strong work ethic
* Reliability
* Honesty
* Determination
* A problem solver
* Resilience
If you have read this advert and feel like it’s exactly the role and organisation you’re looking for, please click 'Apply' to take you through to our short application form.
A Place I belong
Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcoming, and inclusive employer, where all colleagues feel they belong. We want to be an organisation that is truly fair and equal to all – where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics celebrated, and everyone feels able to bring their true selves to work.
By encouraging and embracing a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, capabilities, and viewpoints, we will build a stronger, richer, more vibrant workforce, which reflects the people we support, and the communities in which we work. It helps us make better decisions, bring fresh ideas, and become a true provider and employer of choice.
We have a really clear plan to achieve this called A Place I Belong. This publicly sets out the promises we’ve made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there. You can read more about this by clicking here.
We wish you the very best of luck in your application to join our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact recruitment@c-i-c.co.uk
Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.
We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.
In our 2023 Colleague Engagement Survey, 56% (over 3,300!) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +28. This is a measure of how positively our colleagues talk about us – and 28 is an excellent score compared to other organisations!
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