Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Coalville, Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care charity in Coalville is looking for a Full-time Fully-Flexible Support Worker. This role offers £12.62 per hour and the opportunity to work directly with individuals with varying support needs, ensuring they lead fulfilling lives. Benefits include flexible working hours, professional development, and employee discounts. Ideal candidates will have patience, empathy, and a commitment to making a positive impact, regardless of prior experience.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Flexible Working Hours

Shopping Discounts

Ongoing professional development

Qualifications

• Caring nature with enthusiasm and patience.
• Ability to support people with different care needs.
• No professional experience required but a strong interest in the role is needed.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, and autism.
• Engage in activities aligned with the hobbies and interests of the people you support.
• Maintain a nurturing environment and be prepared to go the extra mile.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Determination

Resilience

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Female Only - Full-time Fully-Flexible Support Worker (37.5 hours, per week) based in Coalville, LE67 postcode area of Leicester. £12.62 per hour. Travelling from external areas will need to have access to a car due to transport links.

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 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
• Shopping Discounts Scheme
• Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
• Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
• Investment in your wellbeing
• We are based in one location
• Spend your whole shift with the person you support, making the biggest impact on their lives

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 focussed 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:

The service comprises of 15 flats.

The people that we support require different levels of support, which could be anything from a Physical Disability, Learning Disability, Challenging Behaviour or Autism. One thing you will all have in common is caring nature, bags of enthusiasm, patience and fun, putting the needs of the people we support at the forefront of all you do. Be prepared to go the extra mile!

The people that we support will have a wide range of hobbies and interests. Try to match yours to theirs to ensure that they are living their best life possible enjoying the things they love to do together.

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.

• 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 email Carol‑anne Phypers ([e-mail]).

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 have 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 out the promises we’ve made to achieving this vision and how we will hold ourselves to account to getting there.

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.