Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 13,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DBS paid

28 days leave (pro-rata)

Pension scheme

No uniform

Discount scheme

Training & progression

Recommend a Friend bonus

Financial hardship fund

Wellbeing investment

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking a Waking Night Support Worker in Portsmouth to provide dedicated night-time care for adults with complex needs. You will work 10pm–7am across two shifts and contribute to a stable, supportive home environment.

We value experience in mental health, autism, and sensory communication, plus training in PBS; DBS costs are supported and progression opportunities exist within a growing charity.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health, autism and sensory communication is essential.
• Knowledge of PBS methods and trauma-informed approaches is valued.
• Willingness to undertake ongoing professional development and training.
• Ability to work night shifts and maintain high-quality support.

Responsibilities

• Provide dedicated night-time support to residents in their home.
• Build trusting relationships and promote independence and wellbeing.
• Respond to behavioural challenges with PBS strategies and de-escalation.
• Record care notes and communicate with the wider care team.

Skills

PBS methods

Mental health

Autism support

Sensory communication

Physical health

Job description

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

Are you looking for a Waking Night Support worker position in Portsmouth?

Do you have extensive experiencein PBS, Trauma based support, and behaviours that challenge?

We have two posistions available 1 x 36 hours (4 nights) and the other 1 x 45 (5 nights) - shift times are 10pm - 7am

This service opened in summer 2025, supporting young adults to transition to their very own assisted living home. We have been working towards being fully occupied, and need more care professionals to join the team.

Are you passionate about supporting others to live their best life possible? Would you like to work in a role where you truly make a difference, every single night?

If you are looking for a great new opportunity, working for an award winning charity, then please read on....

We offer the following benefits:

• We will pay for your DBS application
• Work with a great people and with 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 - you can wear your own casual clothes
• Spend your whole shift with the same people we support, making the biggest impact on their lives
• Shopping Discounts Scheme and a free blue light card!
• 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 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.

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 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 PPE you need in your role and will help you develop, should you decide you want to further your career with us.

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

We’re currently expanding our already well-established team and are looking for an experienced mental health support worker to join us. We have welcomed more individuals into their home, and we want to ensure we continue to have the right support in place to provide high-quality support.

Strong experience in mental health, autism and sensory communication, and physical health is important. It’s best to have experience in using PBS methods, but we will support you to gain qualifications whilst working in service anyway.

We will help you to develop your talents with a range of specialist training, including the opportunity to learn Positive Behaviour Support methods (PBS), Makaton and the Picture Exchange System.

During the recruitment process, you will get to meet the people we support in their own home. This will allow you to see their wonderful personalities first-hand and fully understand the level of support that they require.

The people we support are unique, and have support needs ranging from learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy, mental health, and other complex needs, which could mean that they sometimes display behaviours that can challenge. It’s our mission to ensure the people we support can, and do, lead their best life possible!

You will know how to connect with people and be passionate about supporting people to live independently. You will also be a brilliant team player and share your skills and experiences with your colleagues.

About you:

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:

Great social skills, it's important that you can develop relationships with the people we support, and their family and friends too.

You will need to be fun and sociable, loud and proud! Just like us!

We offer a warm welcome to you, and everyone we meet, so we need you to be confident to do the same!

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.

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