Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Our Benefits**:

- £12.50 per Hour, rising to **£13.01 per hour from 1st April 2025**:

- Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
- Work for an award-winning Charity that invests all its profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities
- 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 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

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**:
Are you a positive and motivated person who is interested in supporting vulnerable adults to live the best lives possible?

Are you looking to gain great experience in a satisfying job where you feel supported?

If this sounds like you, maybe a Support Worker role with an award-winning charity is the change you’ve been looking for

At our **Huntly** service, we support individuals with a wide range of needs to live as independently as possible in their own flats. The individuals you'll be supporting range in age from 30 to 60 and enjoy lots of great activities, so we're looking for people to join the team who are interested in trying new things and supporting people to achieve their own personal goals. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to support people with cycling, walking, watching the football or wrestling, going out for a coffee and cake and anything else they enjoy. The people we support live in their own flats, shared flats or within a shared bungalow and enjoy spending time with people that listen and have a good sense of humour.

Our staff team are very supportive and experienced and also provide some support with:

- Medication administration
- Cooking and home maintenance
- Social support and support to achieve personal goals
- Managing the finances of the people we support

Our team provide support 7 days a week, so we ask for flexibility to work a variety of shifts from Monday-Sunday and this will include some sleepover shifts. Our shift patterns can vary, but some examples of typical shifts are listed below:
- 10am - 10am the next day **(includes sleepover)**

- 3pm - 10am **(includes sleepover)**

- 7/8am - 12.30pm/4.30pm/6pm/7pm

We are currently recruiting for a **32 hour post.**

**One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear: we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues. And so, if you start with us between now and 31 March 2025 your pay with be £12.50 and then from the 1st April 2025, this will increase to £13.01**

**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