Advanced Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Stockport; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care charity in Stockport seeks an Advanced Support Worker to support young adults with complex care needs. This role involves personal care and empowering individuals to achieve independence. The charity offers flexible hours, specialist training, guaranteed contracted hours, and a range of benefits including a pension scheme and ongoing professional development. No uniform is required, fostering a relaxed work environment.

Benefits

Competitive pay of £14.42 per hour

28 days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Shopping Discounts Scheme

Financial Hardship Fund

Ongoing personal development

Qualifications

• Experience in managing medications and administration.
• Proactive approach toward person-centred support.
• Ability to deal with different professionals and families.

Responsibilities

• Support young men with disabilities and complex care needs.
• Assist with personal care and daily activities.
• Enable independence and maintain safety in their home.

Skills

Experience in Autism

Experience with Learning Disabilities

Complex Care Needs

Patience

Empathy

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work :

We are looking for Advanced Support workers that have experience in Autism, Complex Care needs and Learning Disabilities. If this is you and you are looking for a career with an award winning charity please continue to read.

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 :

• £14.42 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
• 28 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 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 :

What are we looking?

• We are looking for advanced support workers who are empathetic, patient and able to provide person-centred support to three young men who share a supported living home. You will be proactive, able to make decisions and liaise with family and professionals when required.
• We need advanced support workers who have experience of supporting people with complex care needs, youth transition and supporting young adults who are care leavers.
• You will be supporting people to work towards person-centred outcomes, enabling them to develop independence and maintain safety in their home and community.

You will have experience in Autism, Learning Disabilities, ADHD, Epilepsy, and Medication management and administration.

About The Service

• Brackley House is a beautiful, detached property in the Heaton Chapel area of Stockport. It is a five-bedroom property where 3 young gentlemen with complex care needs are currently living. The people we support are all aged between 19 years and 24 years.
• Brackley House is a supported living project for 4 young men, when at capacity, with complex care needs. All the people supported are young men and some are care leavers who have transitioned into their own tenancies for the first time.
• The young men need support with daily activities. These include prompting and assisting with personal care needs, housekeeping, meals and cooking assistance, and taking part in local activities and accessing the community.

It is a lively and fun service. A busy environment generating loads of smiles on a daily basis!

Other information?

• We will have a team on duty 24 / 7 so there are both day shifts and waking night shifts in place, and we provide additional 2‑1 hours of support for community-based activities.

Typically, the cover provided is :

Day shifts - 8am to 8pm

Waking Nights - 8pm to 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. 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.