Advanced Support Worker

**What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work**:
**Are you a 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, with flexible shift patterns.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced support worker to step up. You will support adults with learning disabilities and autism_,_ who have complex needs, to lead the best life possible.

**Benefits & USP’s**:

- £12.72 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 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.

Senior Support Worker

**Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role**:
We are looking for a dynamic and innovative ASW that will be able to provide a person-centred support. We are looking for a motivated individual who wants a rewarding role as part of a service that makes a difference. We require the ASW to work in accordance with the practice leadership model to ensure staff are guided and supported in day-to-day practice and allows teams to take shared responsibility for the quality of support. It is essential that the training is reinforced through practical hands on supported and mentored in practical situations.

**Experience**:

- Supporting individuals with complex Learning Disability/Autism/Forensic backgrounds (experience and expertise in this area is essential)
- Understanding of ISF’s and delivering person centred outcomes.
- Confidence and competence working within a Multi-disciplinary team setting as it is essential to ensure a successful working relationship.
- MDT work includes engagement with Clinicians, Occupational Therapists, Police, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Positive behavioural support etc.
- Partnership working with the local authority, commissioners/CCG/joint commissioning.
- Have high levels of resilience and a drive to overcome challenges
- Be prepared to work with people who present with some levels of challenging behaviour and in some cases risky behaviours
- Be committed to personal and professional development dependent on the needs of the service

**Skills and Attributes**:

- An enthusiastic, motivated, committed, experienced and skilled individual who prides themselves on providing support to drive forward the quality of life for people and their services.
- An analytical enquiring mind which supports the evaluation of critical factual judgements based on the regulatory statutory frameworks for services to drive forward quality life of life for people.
- Provide reflective in the reports/documents which have provided/devised and implemented. An overall focus on people achieving their best outcomes and from services people receive.
- An excellent leader with strong values and high standards which demonstrates good quality sup