Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking Support Workers to enhance the lives of individuals with various care needs in Liverpool. You'll provide personal care and support, ensuring that those you assist can live full and meaningful lives. The role promises flexible hours, training opportunities, and a rewarding career in social care.

Benefits

28 Days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Guaranteed & Contracted Hours

Shopping Discounts Scheme

Flexible Working Hours

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Experience with personal care and peg feeding.
• Ability to understand physical disabilities.
• Experience with moving and positioning.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals to live independently.
• Assist with personal care tasks.
• Engage clients in community activities.

Skills

Personal care

Working with people with Autism

Communication

Empathy

Education

Experience in social care

Job description

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Do you want to make a difference in someone else's life? Do you want to work for a charity that really value 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

• £12.62 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 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 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?

• We are a very welcoming service with our ages ranging from 18-70+
• We all have different levels of support required to live independently in our accommodation.
• We are a mental health/learning disability service that provides a person centric care planning approach and support.
• Some of us have complex care needs, some of us just need a little support with day to day living.
• All our staff have been trained to the highest of standards to enable them to deliver centred person support, staff also so have access to ongoing training to enhance their knowledge but also to enhance the support that we provide.
  
  

What is important to us?

• Some of us love to get out and about in the local community, we enjoy attending any community-based services that are available to us.
• Some of us enjoy getting together and having a brew and a chat in each other’s flats
• We like to get together; we like to have our tenants’ meetings where we voice any issues we may be having
• We love to have fun; we are hoping to do some gardening in the summer and sit out in the garden of an evening and have a BBQ and get together.
• We like to hear about any local activities that we may be able to attend and join in with.
• We are fun loving, very welcoming to all that look at either living here or working here we like to make everyone feel welcome and to make a positive impact
• We like to be safe at night so would like people that look at or wellbeing and safety, we want a staff team that enable us and allow us to make choices, we like people that will support with decisions and choices. We like people who are positive, have energy and enthusiasm and that are fun to be around. We like the calm of the service and wouldn’t like that to change as this would upset people that dislike a noisy environment and change.
  
  

Experience needed for this role?

• Experienced with Personal care
• Experienced with Peg feeding and stoma
• Moving and positioning
• Someone who has experience working with people with Autism, and understand physical disabilities
• Looking for someone who is fun, chatty, caring and encouraging to help the new person supported to live their best life
  
  

Other important information?

• We will have up to 4 members of staff on during the day, we have 2 staff that are waking nights that are based in the offices should anyone need anything.
• Each flat has an alarm that goes direct to the office should you need anything at night.
• Staff work 12hrs shifts including weekends. 8 am till 8pm day shifts, and 8pm till 8am night shifts
• We need staff that are friendly, approachable, trustworthy, willing to be flexible, adaptable, skilled to support the people we support.
  
  

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
  
  

If you have read this advert and feel like it’s exactly the role and organisation you’re looking for, please click 'Apply' to take you through to our short application form.

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.

We wish you the very best of luck in your application to joining our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact [e-mail]

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

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