Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Barwell; On-site; GBP 16,531,000 - 20,664,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£13.12 per hour

28 days annual leave

Pension

Paid DBS

Blue Light Card

Shopping discounts

Career development

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking flexible Support Workers in Barwell, Leicester (LE9) to help two young men live their best lives. You’ll share full shifts with the same person, delivering truly person-centred care with patience, empathy and reliability.

We offer £13.12 per hour, 28 days’ annual leave plus pension, DBS paid, Blue Light Card discounts, and ongoing career development. You’ll join a warm, inclusive charity committed to meaningful impact and staff wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Patience and empathy are essential to support individuals with diverse needs.
• Reliability and honesty are valued to build trust with people supported.
• No prior professional experience required, but a values-based approach is important.
• Ability to work flexibly across shifts is needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred support to two young men with varying needs.
• Assist with activities indoors and outdoors to promote wellbeing and independence.
• Collaborate with the team to plan and review goals and progress.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Honesty

Determination

Problem solving

Resilience

Job description

The opportunity and what makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work

Why you'll love working with us

We need Passionate, Reliable, Fully Flexible Support Workers, located in Barwell, Leicester (LE9) £13.12per hour, make a real difference while doing what you enjoy. You'll spend your full shift with the same person, building genuine connections and delivering truly person-centred support.

If you're truly looking for a role that is self-rewarding - a job with purpose, progression, and genuine impact - you'll find it here. Don't just take our word for it - apply today and make that one change!

This is a role you can really feel proud of - with purpose, stability, and real impact as you would expect working for one of the UKs largest Charities.

Once on shift, you'll be based in one location, giving you the chance to focus on what matters most - supporting people to live their best lives.

• £13.12 per hour
• Turn your hobbies and interests into part of the job
• Work for a multi award-winning charity that reinvests in its people
• Supportive leaders who want you to grow
• 28 days annual leave plus pension
• No uniform - just wear what's comfortable
• Full and Part-time Contracted hours available - you will need to be fully flexible around a rota
• Paid DBS, Blue Light Card and shopping discounts
• Career development and progression opportunities
• Strong wellbeing and support networks

About Community Integrated Care:

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK's largest health and social care charities. We transform lives by delivering high-quality, person-centred support that fosters independence and empowerment.

Our charity was founded in 1988, and we were one of the pioneers of the 'Care in the Community' agenda, enabling people to move out of long-stay institutions and live more fulfilling lives.

Since then, we've remained leaders in social care, providing bespoke support to thousands across the UK. Today, we support more than 2,600 people and employ 6,600 caring and committed colleagues across England and Scotland.

We have a proud history of breaking boundaries and are always looking for new ways to make a positive difference through bold ideas, innovative projects and impactful partnerships.

As a multi-award winning charity we ensure our colleagues and the people we support live the best lives possible. In 2025, we launched our new strategy - Best Lives, Bolder. Find our more - click here.

Who you'll be supporting & more about the role:

We are 2 young men ages between 25 and 29 years we enjoy both indoor and outdoor activities.

We have different support needs such as being supported with behaviours that may challenge, autism and learning disability, our staff are all trained in these areas and have good understanding of our support needs.

We enjoy different activities both indoor and outdoor such as baking, cooking, going to the gym, day centre and visits with family.

We like fun activities, people who have bubbly personalities, people that make us laugh and will support us to achieve our goals and support us with exploring and trying new things.

We are fun, happy, caring individuals. Both of us want a Support Worker that would take interest in us, and the things we enjoy: we need someone who is happy and upbeat and can make us laugh!

What you'll be doing

There are 2 staff on shift in the day: 07.00 to 14.30pm and 14.30pm to 22.00pm. 07.00am to 20.00pm and 1 sleep in shift from 22.00pm to 07.00am

About you:

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 that is truly fair and equal to all - where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics celebrated and everyone feels able to bring their true selves to work.

By encouraging and embracing a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences, capabilities and viewpoints, we will build a stronger, richer, more vibrant workforce, which reflects the people we support, and the communities in which we work. It helps us make better decisions, bring fresh ideas and become a true provider and employer of choice.

We have a really clear plan to achieve this called A Place I Belong. This publicly sets out the promises we've made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there. You can read more about this by clicking here.

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Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.

We're proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, recognising our commitment to listening to colleagues and acting on their feedback. In our 2025 Engagement Survey, 59% of colleagues (nearly 3,800) shared their views, helping us achieve an Employee Net Promoter Score of +34 - a Very Good result against global benchmarks.