Waking Night Support Worker

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

- **£13.01 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 PVG check
- 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**:
**Do you like to bake?**

**Are you a football fan?**

**Do you love music and going to gigs and dancing?**

Then you might be a great fit for our team

In this role, you will be supporting a young man who has recently moved into temporary accommodation in Lomond Gardens in Inverness. He hopes to move into a permanent home soon (which will be in Inverness) and would love his team to come with him

This gentleman struggles with his mental health so is looking for understanding and positive people to join his team to help him navigate his challenges and live an amazing, happy and fulfilling life. **A** background in supporting people with bipolar disorder and learning disabilities would be a huge bonus**

As a Support Worker you will help him with everyday tasks, like cooking, cleaning, managing his finances, attending appointments and shopping. In addition, our waking night staff ensure he is safe and comfortable overnight and has someone to talk to when he needs it.

He would love to meet people who are interested in the things he likes, so if you enjoy walking, going to the gym, watching and playing football (he's a big Man United fan) and singing karaoke, you could be the perfect fit This young man is a Christian and his faith is important to him, so he would love someone who is happy to support him to follow his faith.

We are currently recruiting for Support Workers for **waking night shifts from 10pm - 8am and are recruiting for a 40-hour post.**

To ensure fairness for all staff, the successful applicant must be able to work **shifts from Monday-Sunday - we are not able to guarantee the same days each week.**

**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:

- A problem solver
- Resilience
- Patience
- Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
- A strong work ethic
- Reliability
- Honesty
- Determination

**A Place I belong**

Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcom