What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Are you Patient, Caring and Supportive?Do you want to make a difference to someone's life, and provide truly person centred support?Are you passionate, with a Full UK Driving Licence?If the answer is yes then we want to hear from you.
You may be an experienced care professional, or you might be new to the sector, if you have experience of caring or supporting someone else, whether that be professionally or it could be looking after a family member, friend, or volunteering then we would encourage you to talk to us.
Your values, compassion and work ethic are what makes you unique.
We will do the rest so don't worry.
We have a brilliant team of experts to hand who will welcome and support you.
We provide some of the best training that you can expect working within a large charity to make you a skilled support worker.
Most importantly we need you to engage in your favourite hobbies together with the people we support.
This enables them to live their best life possible.
With these great benefits too!
£23,.03 per annumWear your own casual clothes, as we do not have a uniform!Shopping discounts scheme and free blue light card!Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunitiesRecommend a Friend Bonus schemeFinancial Hardship Fund and salary advance schemeFree wellbeing advice and support optionsDBS application paid for by us Community Integrated Care is one of the UK's largest health and social care charities.
We work hard enriching the lives of the people we support, 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 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.
This role is an hourly paid role at £11.94 hourly rate.
The salary advertising is an example of the annualised salary for someone working 37.5 hours a week.
If you work part time, this will differ.
Who you'll be supporting & more about the role: Who will you be supporting?We have all lived together for a long time in within this service.
Our support team are important to us because we need assistance to live our best lives possible.2 of us need assistance to get around the house as we use wheelchairs due to physical disability.
1 of us is independently mobile but needs support in other areas due to his learning disability.The house is for 4 but there are 3 of us living here at the moment and we are all male.
2 of us are prone to seizures and we need staff to be trained in administering rescue medication in the event of a seizure.What is important to us?
We enjoy pub lunches in the local community, attending day service and meeting up with friends.
We also love Lego.
We like going out together on trips as we have known each other a long time and enjoy each others community.
A mixture of male and female support works well for us and good listening skills are essential.
Routine is important to us and we like things a certain way so its vital that support team get to know this.
We all have our own cars so we would like support staff that can drive.What is it like we we live?
This service is a 4 bedroom bungalow in a quiet estate in Cheadle Hulme.
There is garden space surrounding the house which we like to use in the summer.
There is a large kitchen area, dining room and 2 communal lounges.
All o f our bedrooms have an ensuite toilet and sink, and there is a communal shower room and bathroom.
There is a long drive where parking is available.
Candidates must have a valid UK driving license for this role.
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.