Support Worker Bank

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

- £12.62 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 / PVG
- 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**:
My name is David I love going to Blackpool. I like making people cups of tea. I do not like too much noise. I am very Sociable and really enjoy ballroom dancing

“My name is Sharon, and I am great at knitting. I am very sociable and like doing jigsaw puzzles, shopping, and eating out. I really like cats and sometimes I visit the cat café.
- My name is Karen I am a wheelchair user but staff support me to do the things I enjoy. I like being pampered and I like sensory lights. I like listening to my music too and visiting nice places. Staff ensure that things are meaningful to me
- My name is Christopher I have a visual impairment but this does not stop me from having my best life. Staff support me to do things I enjoy. I am a wheelchair user and staff support me to find venues that are wheelchair friendly so that I have a great time
- My name is Dekearan I am visually impaired. I am a wheelchair user. I have a great sense of humour and staff support me to live my best life.
- **We are different in lots of ways (that’s what makes us so interesting)**:

- **The majority of us are wheelchair users and require physical support to be as independent as possible.**:

- **We have different challenges in our lives which include visual and hearing impairment, autism and learning disabilities.We have a staff team who are all trained and familiar with supporting someone with similar needs.**
- shifts 8am till 3pm and 3pm till 10pm or long day 8am till 10pm
night shift 10pm till 8am

**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**

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