Compassionate Care Assistant - Flexible Hours & Growth

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.

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: Are you a friendly, outgoing person with a big heart? Do you have a genuine desire to make a real difference in someone's life? If so, we'd love to hear from you! We're looking for an enthusiastic Female Support Worker to join our amazing team. A driver would be preferred. (37.5 hour per week)

At our services there are 11 people we support living in 5 separate properties. These are all in the same street and they all enjoy spending time with each other. We all have different hobbies and interests but we all still like to spend time together. We all enjoy going out within our community, especially on shopping trips or going out for meals. Some of us also enjoy more physical activities such as going to discos, bowling, dancing, playing pool or going to the gym. We need your support to be able to do this.

We also like to practice a variety of hobbies and interests whilst at home such as puzzles, board games, baking, art and crafts and having karaoke parties. We often like it when you join in with our activities alongside us. Maintaining our relationships with the people we love is very important to us and we will need your support to be able to do this. We like our staff to have similar interests to us. They must be kind, caring and compassionate. We would not get along well with people who are bossy. We all have a really good sense of humour; it is important to us that we are surrounded by people who can make us laugh and share our jokes.

There is at least 1 staff member on shift in each house at all times. Shift times and patterns vary depending on the house, from 24 hour sleepover shifts and 12 hour day shifts to the shorter 1:1 shifts which are usually around 6 to 8 hours long. In order to support us to have the best life possible, our team has specialised training in all the areas we require support. 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 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

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. 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.

You can read more about this by clicking. 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 Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.

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
• 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