Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Pension Scheme

No uniform - wear own clothes

DBS paid

Discounts & blue light card

Wellbeing & development

Recommend a Friend Bonus

Financial Hardship Fund

Investment in wellbeing

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking a Support Worker to assist individuals with diverse care needs. The role involves support across 22.5 to 37.5 hours per week, in a rewarding environment that prioritises dignity and respect.

The charity offers generous benefits, funds training, pays DBS, and supports wellbeing while investing in staff development and community impact.

Qualifications

• Experience working in health or social care setting.
• Experience working with people with learning disabilities or Down's syndrome.
• Ability to be inclusive, adaptable and passionate about supporting people to live in their local community.
• Experience with intensive support planning to ensure safety and quality of life.

Responsibilities

• Support people with diverse needs to live their best lives.
• Be inclusive, adaptable and enthusiastic about helping others.
• Contribute to safety and quality of life through intensive support planning.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Honesty

Determination

Resilience

Job description

Support Worker

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

Are you an experienced support worker, looking for a new career?

Are you dedicated, hardworking and compassionate? Are you looking to work between 22.5 hrs and 37.5hrs a week?

If so, you might be just the miracle person we are looking for?

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard enriching the lives of the people we support, with many different care needs. It’s exciting and rewarding work, and we’re full of pride and passion for what we do.

We offer the following benefits:

• Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
• We are 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 (inc statutory bank holidays) pro rata for part-time positions
• Pension Scheme
• No uniform - wear your own casual clothes
• We will pay for your DBS
• Shopping Discounts Scheme and free blue light card!
• Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
• Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
• Financial Hardship Fund
• Investment in your wellbeing

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, Bolder'.

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 teams 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

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

The people we support have a variety of needs, such as Learning Disabilities, Downs syndrome, some are verbal and others are not, some people mobilise with support and some are independent. One thing that they all have in common, is that they want to live their best lives possible!

They'd like you to be inclusive, adaptable and with great passion for what you do! Also with experience working in a health or social care setting, you will have an upbeat positive manner, as well as having a genuine passion for supporting people to become a part of their local and wider community.

You will also have experience working with people supported who present behaviours that require intensive support planning to ensure their safety and quality of life at all times.

About you:

Naturally it is important 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:

• Patience
• Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
• A strong work ethic
• Reliability
• Honesty
• Determination
• 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.

We are an equal opportunities employer.