Support Worker - Bank

Community Integrated Care; Inverurie; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

Casual dress code

Employee discounts app

Employee recognition schemes

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Community Integrated Care in Inverurie is seeking a positive and motivated support worker to help adults with a range of needs live independently. The role offers contracted hours, shift patterns including days and sleepovers, and a supportive team in a well-regarded charity setting.

You’ll join a committed team at St. James’s Court, enjoy a comprehensive induction and ongoing development, and benefit from a pension, casual dress, and access to wellbeing and discount schemes.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting vulnerable adults.

Responsibilities

• Medication administration
• Cooking and home maintenance
• Social support and helping to achieve personal goals
• Managing the finances of the people we support

Skills

Positive and motivated

Job description

• Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing learning and development (including SVQ funding)
• 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
• Contributory pension scheme
• There is no uniform - you can wear your own casual clothes
• Access to a free app offering retail discounts, leisure savings and holiday and travel discounts
• Employee of the month award and other recognition schemes
• Free Employee Assistance programme available 24/7, providing a wide range of financial, legal and consumer services, as well as counselling, life coaching and career guidance
• Financial support options to help in times of hardship using our Wellbeing Fund and our partnership with the Care Workers Charity
• Recommend a Friend bonus scheme
• We pay for your PVG check!
• Guaranteed and contracted hours
• We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - pro-rated for part-time staff
• Good work/life balance - rotas are issued 4+ weeks in advance enabling you to plan ahead!
• The opportunity to try new things while supporting people to achieve their goals

Our Benefits

• £13.86 Per hour
• Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing learning and development (including SVQ funding)
• 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
• Contributory pension scheme
• There is no uniform - you can wear your own casual clothes
• Access to a free app offering retail discounts, leisure savings and holiday and travel discounts
• Employee of the month award and other recognition schemes
• Free Employee Assistance programme available 24/7, providing a wide range of financial, legal and consumer services, as well as counselling, life coaching and career guidance
• Financial support options to help in times of hardship using our Wellbeing Fund and our partnership with the Care Workers Charity
• Recommend a Friend bonus scheme
• We pay for your PVG check!
• Guaranteed and contracted hours
• We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - pro-rated for part-time staff
• Good work/life balance - rotas are issued 4+ weeks in advance enabling you to plan ahead!
• The opportunity to try new things while supporting people to achieve their goals

Are you a positive and motivated person who is interested in supporting vulnerable adults to live the best lives possible? Are you looking to gain great experience in a satisfying job where you feel supported? If this sounds like you, maybe a Support Worker role with an award-winning charity is the change you’ve been looking for! At St. James's Court in Inverurie, we support individuals with a wide range of needs to live as independently as possible in their own flats.

The individuals you’ll be supporting range in age from 22 to 60 and enjoy lots of great activities, so we’re looking for people to join the team who are interested in trying new things and supporting people to achieve their own personal goals. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to support people with walking football, walking rugby, bowling, going to discos, enjoying live music, visiting the local pub and anything they enjoy. The people we support have a large shared garden and love to spend time there socialising, growing vegetables, partying and making use of the garden’s (mostly non-alcoholic) bar! Our staff team are very supportive and experienced and also provide some support with:

• Medication administration
• Cooking and home maintenance
• Social support and support to achieve personal goals
• Managing the finances of the people we support

Our team provide support 7 days a week, so we ask for flexibility to work a variety of shifts from Monday-Sunday and this will include some sleepover shifts. Our shift patterns can vary, but some examples of typical shifts are listed below: - 7/8am to 3pm & 3pm to 9/10pm, We are currently recruiting for a relief position

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.