Advanced Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**We are **recruiting** **for** Part-Time - Advanced Support Workers (senior level) flexible 08:00-20:00 or 14:00-20:00**

**Would **you like to gain qualifications, enjoy specialist training, have more responsibility and earn £13.74 per hour? Why not spring into action?**

**Community Integrated Care are looking for Advanced Support Workers in and **around** the Banbury/Oxford area with flexible shift patterns, for night shifts something to suit you?**

**If you are **already** a Senior, Team Leader or **experienced** Support Worker that is looking to progress within your career to become an Advanced Support Worker, we would welcome your a**pplication. This could be your next role and an exciting **opportunity** to step up the ladder**

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 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**:
We are brand new supported living service located in the lovely quite neighbourhood of Banbury. The people we support are involved in the recruitment process and therefore want you to know a little more about what they are looking for in you
We are all different ages between 30- 65 years. We have different challenges in our lives which include epilepsy, autism and learning disabilities. We have a staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting someone with similar needs. We support a small number of people in who stay in their separate Bungalows, and we have another small number of people that will be sharing a bungalow on the same site. We currently have a few people that we support who have moved in in the separate bungalows and we are looking forward to having the other people we support move in.

Our Support Workers thrive in making a difference to our life by having compassion and committing themselves, these are exciting times for us as we are beginning this journey together.

All of us are mobile and we love going out and about and experience the good things and activities offered by Banbury.

We need someone who will try and get to know us and understand our wishes and desires, to be patient, respectful, to be understanding, to have a sense of humour, to enjoy similar activities as we do.

We want someone who is confident in what they do, can ask us questions, and allow us to also ask questions. We want new ideas that we can try out.

**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 feel