Support Worker

TN United Kingdom; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 1,000; Full time

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What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Do you want to make a difference in someone else's life? Do you want to work for a charity that really values their people? One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear: we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues. Benefits & USP’s:

1. £12.62 per Hour
2. Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
3. Work for a multi award-winning Charity that invests all its profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities
4. Managed by supportive leaders
5. 28 Days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays (for full time, part time is worked out on a pro-rata basis)
6. Pension Scheme
7. No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
8. Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
9. We will pay for your DBS / PVG
10. We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
11. Guaranteed & Contracted Hours
12. Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
13. Shopping Discounts Scheme
14. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
15. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
16. Financial Hardship Fund
17. Investment in your wellbeing

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enrich 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 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 will you be supporting?

1. We are 3 ladies who are in our 60’s
2. We require full assistance to mobilise as we all have mobility difficulties.
3. We require full support with all of our personal care needs.
4. We all have non-verbal communication so you will need to spend time with us to see how we communicate with you.

What is important to the people that we support?

1. We all have different personalities and enjoy different things, but we also enjoy living together and going out on activities together.
2. We enjoy going out in the community for days out and like to go out for meals, cinema and shopping.
3. If we are spending time at home we enjoy listening to music and watching TV
4. We enjoy spending time with our families when they visit.
5. We require our staff team to be varied in personalities, but they all need to be caring and empathetic.

Other important information?

1. We have at least 2 x staff on day shifts 08:00-20:00, we also have a third member of staff 3 times a week 12.00-18.00 (flexible for activities)
2. We have 2 x waking night 20:00-08:00
3. Our need staff to have additional specialised training for Peg and Epilepsy.
4. We need our staff to be flexible and we also need some staff to be able to drive as we like to go out and about in our Van.
5. You must be able to work nights.

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 us, so we look for people with:

1. Patience
2. Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
3. A strong work ethic
4. Reliability
5. Honesty
6. Determination
7. A problem solver
8. Resilience