Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Skelmersdale; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave + pension

Paid DBS and Blue Light Card discounts

Career development & progression

Wellbeing and support networks

No uniform — wear what’s comfortable

Flexible contracted hours

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is seeking passionate, reliable, experienced support workers for waking nights in Skelmersdale. You’ll spend full shifts with the same person, delivering person-centred support, building connections, and making a real difference in a multi‑award winning charity that reinvests in its people.

You’ll work shifts between 8:00 and 10:00 start, finishing 3:00–4:00 or 10:00–11:00. A Full UK Manual Driving Licence is required.

Qualifications

• We’re looking for individuals with patience, empathy, reliability and honesty.
• Demonstrates determination, problem-solving ability and resilience.
• Values-aligned approach and willingness to support others in social care.

Responsibilities

• Provide support during waking nights, staying with the same person for the shift.
• Operate with a minimum of three staff in emergencies and five during daytime coverage.
• Work shifts starting between 8:00 and 10:00 and finishing between 3:00–4:00 or 10:00–11:00.
• Must hold a Full UK Manual Driving Licence.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Honesty

Determination

Problem solver

Resilience

Job description

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

Why you'll love working with us

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.

We need Passionate, Reliable, Experienced Support Workers, Waking Nights (2 x24 hours) located in Skelmersdale, WN8, £13.12 per 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.

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 a diverse and vibrant group of eight people aged 18 to 44, each with our own interests, goals, and aspirations, located in WN8 postal code (Skelmersdale, Wigan).

We all have different strengths and support needs, ranging from one-to-one support to core support. With the right support, we enjoy living as independently as possible, managing our homes, accessing our community, developing life skills, and making choices about how we live our lives.

Our support is tailored to us as individuals, helping us understand information, communicate our views, and achieve the things that matter most to us.

Our dedicated team is highly trained in areas including medication, moving and positioning, epilepsy, ligature awareness, and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), ensuring we receive safe, responsive, and person-centred support every day.

What you'll be doing

We currently have five staff members on shift during the day. In emergency situations, we can safely operate with a minimum of three staff members, although this would mean providing only essential support.

During the night, there is one support worker on duty to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the people we support.

We operate a range of shifts, with start times between 8:00am and 10:00am. Shifts finish either between 3:00pm and 4:00pm or between 10:00pm and 11:00pm.

You will need to ne a driver with a Full UK Manual License for this role.

About you:

What we're looking for

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.

[e-mail]. If you do need any adjustments, please email [e-mail]. 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.