Support Worker - Maternity Cover

Community Integrated Care; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent care charity in Knowsley is looking for dedicated Support Workers to assist individuals with diverse care needs. You will receive comprehensive training and work within a supportive environment. The role involves personal care, medication administration, and helping residents participate in community activities. If you have the right values and a passion for making a difference, we want to hear from you. Embrace a rewarding career with guaranteed hours and benefits like flexible scheduling and development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rate of £12.62

28 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Shopping discounts

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Must have a caring nature and be dedicated to supporting individuals.
• Full training will be provided in various care-related areas.
• Experience in social care is beneficial but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with personal care and medication.
• Engage in social activities and outings with residents.
• Provide assistance with meals and cleaning.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Compassion

Reliability

Problem solving

Education

Training in medication administration

Moving and positioning

Epilepsy training

Nutrition knowledge

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work :

Do you want to make a difference in someone else's life? Do you want to work for a charity that really value their people? One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear : we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues. This is a fixed term contract for a period of 12 months to cover maternity leave 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‑ratio 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 :

Who will you be supporting?

We support a range of individuals with a range of different needs and abilities.

In one area of the building we support over 55’s with physical or mental health needs.

On the other side of the building we support under 55’s with mental health.

It is a lovely community that all come together and socialise in the communal areas.

We have 70 apartments and there are 66 people that live here the amount of people we support varies depending on care packages at the time at present we support 28 people but we do have some vacancies so this will increase.

You would need to be fully trained in medication administration, moving and positioning, epilepsy, diabetes, nutrition. You will be given full training on this in your induction with us.

What is important to us?

It is important that we are supportive of everyone and their abilities and needs, we promote independence. Some people we support require low level support such as support with meals, medication, cleaning, others can require a higher level of support with personal care and moving and positioning. The aim of the extra care services is to enable people to live independently but with staff on site 24 / 7. Some people we support can live in their own apartment but need four calls a day supporting with meals, personal care, medication and cleaning, they don’t need a nursing / care home but they do need a higher level of support.

We also support people with their social hours such as going out into the community for days out, meals out, shopping and supporting to medical appointments.

Our extra care services are not secure buildings and people are free to come and go as they please and have visitors whenever they want there are DOLS in place, everyone has their own front door. They all have pendants which are linked to the phones the support team carry and these are responded to as and when people press them for emergency support.

Other important information? The staff on duty during the day is 3 in the morning and three in the afternoon and two waking night staff. There are no commissioned calls through the night you are there to respond to any emergency pendant calls. We also have an on call service for community integrated care and also each housing provider has an emergency out of hours contact.

Shifts range from early shifts 8-3, 3-8,8-8

Night shifts are usually 8pm till 8am

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 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