Advanced Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you **looking for an Advanced Support Worker (Senior Support Worker) role based in Bournemouth?**

**Are you a driver and already an experienced Support Worker looking to progress your career?** **Or you might be a Se**nior Support Worker **looking for a change of direction? Either way we have something unique just for you.**

**Would you like to gain qualifications, enjoy specialist training, have extra responsibility?**

**Do you thrive on a challenge? Does making some live**
**their**
**best life possible make you smile?**

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enrich the lives of the people we support 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. 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.

We believe its a great place to work with great benefits too
- Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
- No uniform - wear your own casual clothes
- Shopping Discounts Scheme and Free Blue Light card
- Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
- Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
- Financial Hardship Fund and Salary Advance scheme
- Investment in your wellbeing

**Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role**:

- I enjoy having my own space. Routine is important and this means that you will need to think outside of the box. The team is dedicated to supporting me to help me live my best life possible- To support me well you will need to access a variety of community facilities and person-centred activities. We evolve and develop together to do things better.- You will need to be reliable and very motivated with a genuine passion for what you do. I like both male and female support staff, however there must be at least 1 male staff member with me at all times.I will need you to be willing and enthusiastic, always striving to go above and beyond. We need you to understand our compliance with contracts and CQC and help us reach the “Outstanding” rating. I need you to commit to being totally personalised in all that you do.

You will need you to always communicate in a positive and honest way, using communication aids that I understand, mainly via basic Makaton or on my iPad.

It is important for for me to have positive relationships with family and circles of support who are all very important
- My routine is very important to me and provides me with stability but I also really enjoy it when staff think outside the box to bring me variety within my routine.I love to recycle and frequently visit the recycling centre. I enjoy going for rides in the car and out for walks. Especially having my snack whilst I am out. I like to watch movies on TV at home, especially comedies.

I find bubbles great fun and really enjoy it when staff encourage me to play with bubbles. I enjoy going out to play bowling, especially if this is followed with a pint at the pub.

My aspiration is to visit Buckingham palace, so if you have any inside connections, you are hired
- If you think that you can relate to me assuring I live my best life possible, you could very well be the to your next career move***

**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.

During recruitment you will meet the people we support in their home. This will allow you to see their wonderful personalities first-hand and fully understand the level of support that they require.

Naturally it is important too that you share our company values - We Include