Support Worker Male Driver

Community Integrated Care; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£13.12 per Hour

28 Days annual leave

Pension Scheme

No uniform – casual clothes

DBS/PVG paid

Flexible working hours

Guaranteed & contracted hours

Wellbeing investment

Progression opportunities

Job summary

Community Integrated Care is a UK health and social care charity delivering person-centred support across England and Scotland. You will work closely with people who need care, spending your shift with them to make a meaningful impact on their daily lives, while following safeguarding and care procedures.

The role offers flexible hours, 28 days leave pro‑rated, a pension scheme, and opportunities for ongoing professional development and progression within a supportive leadership environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others.
• Clear and effective communication with colleagues and the people we support.
• Reliable and trustworthy with a strong work ethic.
• Works well in a team and supports colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Spend your whole shift with the person you support, positively impacting their life.
• Provide person-centred support in line with care plans and safety protocols.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Reliability

Team player

Job description

• 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‑ratio basis)
• Pension Scheme
• No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
• We will pay for your DBS / PVG
• 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
• Investment in your wellbeing

Benefits & USP’s

• £13.12 per Hour
• Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
• Male driver required
• 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‑ratio basis)
• Pension Scheme
• No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
• Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
• We will pay for your DBS / PVG
• 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 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 personal protective equipment you need in your role and will help you develop, should you decide you want to develop your career with us.

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 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, 10:00am-17:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9am - 5pm on Monday and 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.

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.

We wish you the very best of luck in your application to joining our charity. Should you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to contact [e-mail]

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

We’re really proud to be a Hive HR Employee Voice Certified organisation, a recognition that confirms our commitment to creating a culture where our colleagues are not only encouraged to share their thoughts, but where this feedback is actively sought and acted upon to drive positive change at every level.

In our 2025 Colleague Engagement Survey, 59% (nearly 3,800) of our people shared their feedback and insights, giving us an incredible Employee Net Promoter Score of +34.

The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones - and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.