Autism Specialist

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you looking for your next role in Health and Social Care? Do you have experience working with Autism and Learning Disabilities?**

**Would you like to gain qualifications, enjoy specialist training, have more responsibility and earn more money?**

Community Integrated Care is recruiting for Specialist Advanced Support Workers, with flexible shift patterns.

This is an exciting opportunity for skilled and experienced support workers to step up. You will support an adult with a learning disability, tourettes, OCD and complex needs, to lead the best life possible.

**Benefits**:

- £13.62 per Hour
- 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
- 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 focussed 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**:
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to work with a young man, as we are looking for a team of Specialist Advanced Support Workers to help transition him into his new home and promote his independence.

We are looking for Specialist Advanced Support Workers who are calm, patient and skilled in verbal and non-verbal communication.

A property has been sourced in Burtonwood, Warrington and is currently being redesigned to meet his specific needs.

He is interested in films and music and would like someone who can talk about those things. He loves football, being active and he will have his own gym in his home, so needs staff to be active and able to get involved in physical activity with him. It is important to his wellbeing that he can be active every day. He loves gadgets and playing his PlayStation.

At other times he likes the environment to be quiet and to have his own space.

Staff will be expected initially to work at a different location, getting to know this young man, understand him and attend bespoke intensive training, with a plan for him to move into his new home in November 23. Transport to this other location can be provided/travel will be paid for.
- Being able to drive is advantageous due to the location of the property but this is not essential.

**Your values**:
If you do not have a qualification, you will need to have experience in social care.

You will know how to connect with people and be passionate about supporting people to live independently. You will also be a brilliant mentor and share your skills and experiences with your colleagues.

We will develop your talents with a range of specialist training, including the opportunity to learn Positive Behaviour Support methods.

**For this role, driving would be a huge benefit, as this property is not easily accessible via public transport.**

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:

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