Support Worker, Community Health

Overview

We are currently looking for Support Workers who have experience in working with challenging behaviours. If you are looking for a new opportunity and want to work for an organisation that truly values their people and helps people live their best life possible, join our team.

• Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives
• Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
• Be part of a multi award-winning Charity that invests all its profits back into the people we support, our workforce and local communities
• Be managed by supportive leaders
• Provide flexible working hours & shift patterns
• Support the service users with their learning and development
• Participate in ongoing professional development and progression opportunities
• We will pay for your DBS / PVG
• Guaranteed & contracted hours
• Take part in the organisation’s benefits, including shopping discount scheme
• Access financial hardship support and wellbeing investment

The role is within a well-established service supporting one person who has learning disabilities and autism. The person enjoys visiting the local community, including charity shops and activities outside the home. The staff team includes day and night shifts; there are two full-time vacancies (2x 40 hours).

The chosen candidates must be fully flexible on the days and timings they can work. For this particular role, male staff is required as a genuine occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010.

• Experience in working with challenging behaviours
• Care about the person’s choice, dignity and independence
• Patience; empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others; a strong work ethic; reliability; honesty; determination
• A problem solver with resilience

Community Integrated Care is one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We focus on choice, dignity and respect and are guided by our vision “Your Life, Your Choice” and strategy “Best Lives Possible.” We pursue value-driven recruitment across diverse backgrounds and experiences and invest in pay, recognition, wellbeing and development for our people.

We emphasise inclusion through “A Place I Belong,” a plan describing our commitments to fairness and equal opportunity. If you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact  Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.