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Support Worker Leeds, England

Community Integrated Care

Full Time Leeds, England 10.92 GBP HOURLY Today

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Service Location - Pinfold Lane, Garforth, Leeds, LS25

Benefits & USP’s:

£10.92 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

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.

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

Pinfold Lane – Meet the People

We are different in lots of ways (That’s what makes us so interesting) with our ages ranging between 37 and 66 years old.
We all have individual needs, including mobility issues, non-verbal communication, and require personal care, with only one of us being independent.
We all have different challenges in our lives which include autism, learning disabilities, dysphagia, and communication difficulties.

What is important to us.

We are all proud of the house we live in and how homely it is with all our bedrooms being unique and personalised to us.
We enjoy going for days out, meals out, concerts and going to the theatre. We also enjoy listening to music.
One of us is in a band, has a drum kit and karaoke in our bedroom and is also a DJ. It’s their aspiration to carrying on making albums with the band and maybe become famous one day, with bigger gigs including festivals.
We all like to get out and about doing our own weekly activities. One of us goes to a day centre 4 times a week, one of us attends Purple Patch once a week and one of us attends college four times a week and a music hub on a Monday. In the summer months we all like to spend time in the garden.
We also aspire to stay healthy and safe in our own home.
We like to go shopping in our village and one of us likes to go to the train station and watch the trains or take a ride.
We are sociable, friendly, and like to have banter with our support team.
We would prefer individuals that have the same interest as ourselves, as well as being fun and outgoing.

Our Home

Our home is a dormer bungalow with four bedrooms, a sensory room, and a sleep room for staff. We have a conservatory coming off the living room, the kitchen, and a utility room
Our home has a 2 floors, with a converted loft.
We have a garden to the rear of the bungalow, which has a decking area, one of us also has a sunken trampoline that 3 of us like to use, with permission.
We share the lounge area where we all like to chill out and we share the kitchen and three of us will sit together at the dining table on occasions.
Our house is located on a quiet street leading to a larger housing estate to the rear and the bungalow is adjacent to the local cricket ground.
We also have a house vehicle that we all use.

Additional Info

Our staffing levels include two, or more, staff in the morning and afternoon, one waking night and a sleep in.
The shifts of our staff vary depending on our activities but our usual shifts are 7am - 2pm, 9am – 5pm, 2pm – 9pm and 2pm – 10am sleep
We would like someone who enjoys the same activities that we enjoy doing on a day-to-day basis. You should be caring, friendly and empathetic. We will train you in all mandatory training as well as any specialised training needed in our home.

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:

- 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.

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.

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