Support Worker - Waking Nights

Community Integrated Care; Wigan; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in Wigan seeks Support Workers to provide essential emotional support to individuals aged 18-60 with mental health difficulties. Ideal candidates should be compassionate, reliable, and willing to learn. This role involves working 24 hours a week on waking nights, with a focus on community engagement and individual choice. The organization offers extensive training and a range of employee benefits including flexible working hours and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

£12.62 per hour

Flexible working hours

28 days annual leave

Pension scheme

No uniform required

DBS/PVG paid for

Ongoing professional development

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Kind, compassionate, and willing to learn.
• No prior experience necessary as training will be provided.
• Ability to engage in community activities.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional support to clients with mental health difficulties.
• Engage clients in community activities and outings.
• Work 24 hours per week on waking nights.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Honesty

Problem-solving

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work :

Are you looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to work for an organisation that truly value their people and want to help people live their best life possible? We are currently looking an Support Workers looking for a career with an award winning charity. 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 :

Who You Will Be Supporting? The people we support in this service are aged from 18-60. They require emotional support and have mental health difficulties. We have a team of support worker from all different backgrounds, some have many years of experience in Health & Social Care and some that came to us with absolutely no experience at all. All we ask is that you are kind, compassionate and willing to learn. Everything else we are happy to train you in.

What is important to us?

We enjoy doing different activities such as being out and about in the community, going shopping, going for coffee, we love going out for food, going to the pub and doing meaningful activates. We look forward to trying new things and going to other services and events organised by Community Integrated Care. The people supported here would describe themselves as a fun, happy and a friendly bunch! They enjoy having staff with them who are outgoing, kind, caring, friendly and have the ability to think outside of the box.

This vacancy is for 24 hours per week - WAKING NIGHTS Only!

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