Bank Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Oxford; On-site; GBP 13,000; Part time

Job summary

A large health and social care charity is seeking a Bank Support Worker in Oxford to assist individuals with diverse abilities. The role offers £12.62 per hour along with flexible working hours and a supportive organizational culture that values compassion and person-centered care. Ideal candidates should be patient and empathetic, with a strong work ethic. Join a team dedicated to enriching lives and making a positive impact within the community while enjoying personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Ongoing professional development

Shopping Discounts

Qualifications

• Understanding of various care needs, including disabilities like cerebral palsy and autism.
• Ability to communicate effectively with families.
• Willing to learn and adapt to unique individual needs.

Responsibilities

• Support and care for individuals with different abilities.
• Assist in daily living tasks to promote independence.
• Encourage and enable individuals to achieve personal goals.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Problem solving

Resilience

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Bank Support Worker £12.62 per hour, located in Headington - Oxford OX3, postal code area.

Benefits include

• 12.62 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
• No uniform - we wear our casual clothes
• Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
• We will pay for your DBS
• 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
• Shopping Discounts Scheme
• Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities

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:

We support and care for people with different abilities. We currently have an age range of between 30– 50 years old. Our team is made up of both females and males. We support 10 people; we communicate closely with the people we support family as they are a big part of their lives. We thrive in making a difference in the people we support life by having compassion and committing ourselves, helping them to achieve their goals by providing them with courage. “Best life possible” is something we always aim to achieve; we like to believe that the people we support also contribute to staff’s best lives possible.

Most of us are mobile but some need a little bit of physical assistance to get around our house and out and about. We have different challenges in our lives which include epilepsy, cerebral palsy dysphagia, autism and learning disabilities.

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.

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.

If you are interested in learning more about the role before submitting your application, please feel free to email [e-mail], our recruitment specialist.

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 [e-mail]

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.