Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you Patient, Caring and Supportive?**

**Do you want to make a difference to someone's life, and provide truly person centred support?**

**Are you passionate, with a Full UK Driving Licence?**

**If the answer is yes then we want to hear from you.**
- You may be an **experienced care professional**, or you might be **new to the sector**, if you have experience of caring or supporting someone else, whether that be professionally or it could be looking after a family member, friend, or volunteering then we would encourage you to talk to us. Your values, compassion and work ethic are what makes you unique. We will do the rest so don't worry. We have a brilliant team of experts to hand who will welcome and support you.
- We provide some of the best training that you can expect working within a large charity to make you a skilled support worker. Most importantly we need you to engage in your favourite hobbies together with the people we support. This enables them to live their best life possible.

**With these great benefits too**
- £11.94 per hour
- Wear your own casual clothes, as we do not have a uniform
- Shopping discounts scheme and free blue light card
- Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
- Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
- Financial Hardship Fund and salary advance scheme
- Free wellbeing advice and support options
- Community Integrated Care is one of the **UK’s largest health and social care charities**. We work hard enriching the lives of the people we support, 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 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 live in a number of flats and require staff who can support us with our day to day lives, including support with medication, personal care and anything else that we like to do.
- All of us are so different but we are best friends We look out for each other and love spending time together as well as doing our own things.
We have a lot of different interests such as arts & crafts, shopping, going out for coffee and cake, dancing and singing, rugby, reading, pamper days and going for long drives in the country.

**We like to use our own cars to go out and about so it is important that you have a full UK Driving Licence**

**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**

**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 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, w