Female Support Worker Driver

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

• 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
• 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
• £12.62 per Hour
• 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 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 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:

We are 2 ladies and a gentleman who live in a mining community village called Fishburn. We live in a big house with a big garden for us to sunbathe in. We have support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and need loyalty and commitment from our team of support staff. We all have our own little quirks, routines, great sense of humour and we all have great personalities too for you to get to know. We are all unique and very different people. Our needs to one another are not the same and shouldn’t be compared. It is important you respect our individual needs and wishes.

What do we need from you?

• Consistency and routine focused support
• Engage regular but on our terms
• Get to know the real us, be loyal
• Be always open and honest
• Have positive relationships with families and circles of support
• Be committed to what you do
• Be kind, compassionate and fun; patience is a great virtue
• Be non-judgmental; we all like different things. Everyone’s opinion matters no matter how small
• Commit to our core values and “think outside the box”; adapt activities and tasks for us to help with
• Understand our compliance with contracts and CQC and accept that we don’t live and work in an ideal world
• Provide excellent care and support
• Always communicate and listen to us and respect what we have to say
• Look for ideas to engage and be fun. We love to laugh
• Keep up to date with your training and our care plans
• Ask if you are unsure of anything and raise concerns the right way about us, the team and practices
• Positive risk taking for aspirational outcomes
• Be highly reliable and motivated with a passion for what you do
• Be flexible to meet our needs, interests and hobbies

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