Support Worker Female

TN United Kingdom; High Spen; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity in the UK is seeking passionate support workers to assist individuals with learning and physical disabilities. You will engage in community activities and provide personalized support, ensuring a fulfilling experience for those you assist. With flexible hours and a commitment to staff wellbeing, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of others.

Benefits

28 Days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Flexible Working Hours

Guaranteed & Contracted Hours

Shopping Discounts Scheme

Financial Hardship Fund

Investment in your wellbeing

Qualifications

• No professional experience required; values-based recruitment.
• Trained in moving and positioning, safeguarding, and medication administration.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with learning and physical disabilities.
• Provide one-to-one and two-to-one support in the community.
• Engage in activities like shopping, arts and crafts, and outings.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Compassion

Reliability

Problem Solving

Resilience

Job description

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What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: 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 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 you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

• We are Elizabeth, Patsy, Charlotte and Paul.
• We have different challenges that we face, including Learning disabilities and physical disabilities.
• Our staff team are trained in, Moving and positioning, Safeguarding, Medication administration and a lot more!
• We all like similar activities, we enjoy going out and accessing our local community, shopping, arts and crafts, going for drives in our vehicles, eating out at nice restaurants and people watching.
• We don’t like people who doing like to go out into the community, who are bossy. We are the bosses!
• We live in a large building which is divided into 4 separate flats situated in High Spen.
• The 2 downstairs flats have their own gardens and the upstairs flat to the back have their own back yard.
• There is parking available in the car park to the right hand side of the property through the black gates.
• We each receive one to one/ two to one support to access the local community – we also share some support within the home. There is two staff one shift at one time with Elizabeth and Paul.
• We have a range of shifts for staff available – 8am-8pm, 11:00am-17:00pm, 9am – 5pm on a Friday, waking night shift 8pm-8am.
• We need you to be fun, bubbly and outgoing, staff are provided with all mandatory and specific training tailored to our needs.

Your values:

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 us, so we look for people with:

• Patience
• Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
• A strong work ethic
• Reliability
• Honesty
• Determination- A problem solver
• Resilience