Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Benefits & USP’s**:

- £10.92* per Hour (*Pay Increase pending)
- Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
- 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
- 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
- We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
- 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 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**:
**Please note that this is a Full Time Vacancy - 42 Hours per week.**

Are you a fun and honest individual who loves going the extra mile to improve the lives of others?

Is it important for you to have a satisfying job where you feel supported?
If this sounds like you, maybe our Support Worker role with an award-winning charity is the change you’ve been looking for

The people we support all have their own likes and dislikes and will require you to respect this and support them to live their best lives possible.

Within this service you will be required to support 4 lovely gents and 2 lovely ladies in their home which is a large bungalow located near to Houghton-Le-Spring. The people we support enjoy lots of different activities, some of which are listed below.
- Most of the people we support are mobile but on occasion need a little bit of physical assistance to get around especially out and about in the community. The people we support have different challenges lives which include autism, learning disabilities and mental health
- Things the people we support enjoy:

- Coffee Catch ups
- Going to the local pub
- Quiet walks
- Music & Dancing

Our staff team are great, and some of their responsibilities are but are not restricted to:

- Maintain homes
- Complete personal care
- Moving and positioning
- enabling the people we support to maintain relationships with family and friends
- Planning trips away and holidays.

We are looking for support workers who have the same interests as the people we support and are happy to get involved with every aspect of all there lives.

**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**