Advanced Support Worker Specialist

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you an experienced Support Worker or Advanced Support Worker that is looking to progress in your career?**

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

Community Integrated Care is recruiting for an Advanced Support Worker Specialist, with flexible shift patterns in **Marlbrook, Bromsgrove.**

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced support worker to step up. You will support an amazing young autistic female, 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
- 25 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**:
**Do you want to be part of B’s Dream Team?**

This is an exciting opportunity to provide life-changing support to a young lady who will be transitioning from hospital to her new forever home in Bromsgrove. B is an amazing, young autistic woman with a wicked sense of humour, boundless energy, and with a genuine interest in and caring nature towards others. You will be supporting B to live a full and active life at home and in her local community.

We are looking for a team of multi-skilled Advanced Support Specialists who have significant experience of delivering support underpinned by Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) principles. You will be required to provide trauma-informed support that follows structured clinical guidance, building on what currently works well for B. Experience of supporting people with Pathological Demand Avoidance would be advantageous, but in-depth training will be provided.

You will have access to a comprehensive programme of learning and development, including bespoke training from highly respected clinicians and a national NHS team of behavioural specialists, as well as access to accredited PBS Coach training.

B would like a staff team who are happy, caring, enthusiastic, bubbly and supportive. Every day will be different and B likes to keep busy with a range of activities. B loves drama and would like staff who are willing to get involved in drama and role play with her. It is important that you like animals as B loves her pets (a rabbit and a guinea pig) and will need some support to look after them. A good sense of humour is essential. B is really active and likes going to the gym, so needs staff who are active and energetic. B would love some staff who are good at cooking and able to share their skills. Being a talented singer, dancer or being able to play an instrument would also be a bonus.

You will have excellent observation skills and be responsive and sensitive to B’s emotions and subtle changes in B’s presentation.

You will contribute and work towards a psychologically safe environment for B, yourself, and your colleagues. You will be able to approach each day with a fresh, positive outlook.