Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you looking for your next role in Health and Social Care?**

**Are you a bright and bubbly person who wants to make a difference to someone's life?**

**Benefits & USP’s**:

- Part time role - 24 hours per week
- £11.94 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
- Pension Scheme
- No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
- Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
- We will pay for your DBS / 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
- 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**:
**About Our Service**:
Discover a truly unique service in the heart of Dorset, dedicated exclusively to providing respite care. Our service offers family members and carers of our clients a well-deserved break, knowing their loved ones are in capable and compassionate hands. With over 25 enthusiastic regular attendees, our respite care is a place of joy and excitement, where each visit brings smiles and comfort.

**About Our Team**:
Join a team that embodies adaptability, personalization, and flexibility. We work cohesively to continuously evolve and ensure our home is always brimming with laughter and kindness. Our pride lies in the invaluable service we provide, not just to our clients but also to their families and carers. Every day, we create a supportive and uplifting environment that makes a difference.

**Your Values**:
Are you a highly motivated and reliable individual with a passion for supporting others? We're looking for someone like you Bring your flexibility, positivity, and infectious smile to our team. Experience with diverse care needs is essential, as we serve a variety of individuals. Effective and open communication is key to thriving in this role. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you

**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:

- **Flexibility**
- **Initiative**
**- Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others***:

- A strong work ethic***:

- Reliability and adaptability***:

- 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 every