Care Worker: Flexible Hours, Impactful Support

Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work. Work for a multi award-winning Charity that invests all its 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
• We will pay for your DBS / PVG
• We are based in one location, so no need to be a car driver
• 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
• £13.12 per Hour
• Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
• Guaranteed & Contracted Hours

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enrich 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 are three fun loving, charismatic young adults aged 24-35. We all have communication challenges, but we also have our own way of communicating what we want and what we need. Our staff are trained in various things such as administering medication, Moving and Positioning, Makaton and how to make us happy and safe.

We are all proud of what we achieved in our lives. We don’t let things get us down or beat us; our smiles and positive attitudes are inspirational to all who know us. We are a family here at Applegarth! We love different activities from going out to staying in and watching TV, listening to music and sensory games.

One of us loves Mr Tumble, one of us loves music and one of us loves to be out and about. We all have the same goals and aspirations which is to be given a voice and to enjoy our lives to the full! Our families are very important to us, and we would like you to keep this updated with how we are and what we have been up to. They love and appreciate this especially our Mams.

All the staff at Applegarth will always strive to get the best outcomes for us and so every week they look at various activities within the local community to see what we can do. We also get updates from local authority, “What to do” and day services.

Fun, Inspirational, Loving, Happy, Determined, Family - this is how we would describe ourselves. We all get on with everyone once we get to know them; when people are new to us we are a little reserved but that is short lived.

There are always 3 staff on shift throughout the day and one overnight. There are 2 main shift patterns: 8am-8pm & 8pm-8am.

The staff we look for are trained, will keep us safe, have a lovely personality and want to make a difference to our lives daily. 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 individuals’ values and we recruit people from all walks of life; from people with vast experience in a support worker or care assistant role, to 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 us, so we look for people with:

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

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.

Here at Community Integrated Care we aim to be a warm, welcoming and inclusive employer, where all colleagues feel they belong. We want to be 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.

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 recruitment@c-i-c.co.uk.

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.