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Support Worker

Location:
Inverness
Job Category:
Care and Support
Salary Details:
£12.50 per hour
12 Oct 2024
Vacancy Type:
Full Time or Part Time
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What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

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.

Our Benefits:
  • £12.50 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
  • 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
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

In our Inverness services, we provide support to individuals with learning disabilities, autism and acquired brain injuries, to support them to live the best lives possible.

We are currently recruiting for 4 services in Inverness - read on for more details!

Service 1 (VC): In this service, we support two young men to live independently in their own homes.  They enjoy walking, so staff need to be physically fit and prepared to walk up to 7 miles per day.  They like to go to the gym, trampoline, play games, visit family, cook, draw and many other things! We are currently recruiting for a 40-hour post.

Service 2 (OER): In this service, we also support two men to live independently in their own homes.  These gentlemen enjoy playing football, DIY, going to the cinema, going on holiday, swimming and walking.  We are currently recruiting for 25 - 37.5 hours per week (days only)
 
Service 3 (BG): In this service, we support a young lady who has an acquired brain injury who uses a wheelchair to get about.  She loves cats and dogs, meeting up with friends and family, going to the pub, going to the movies and just generally enjoying life.  This lady prefers female-only support and candidates must have a UK driving license to help support her to get out and about.  We are currently recruiting for a 30-hour post and this role will include sleepovers.  
 
Service 4 (BR): In this service, we support a gentleman to live independently in his own home.  He loves to try new activities, enjoys gaming, walking and also goes to college on a Thursday and Friday. We are currently recruiting for 25 - 37.5 hours per week (days only between 10am - 6.30pm)

As a Support Worker you will support with the activities and interests noted above, but also with individual support needs as well as the day-to day intimate personal care, household tasks and moving and positioning tasks.

Sometimes the people we support really need a male or female person to support them. For this particular role, a female colleague is required.  This is a genuine occupational requirement as defined by the Equality Act 2010

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:

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

If you have read this advert and feel like it’s exactly the role and organisation you’re looking for, please click 'Apply' to take you through to our short application form.

If you are interested in learning more about the role before submitting your application, please feel free to contact our Recruitment Specialist, Eva Otto, at [email protected]

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 [email protected]

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