Support Worker

Community Integrated Care; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent health and social care charity in Scotland seeks a compassionate Support Worker to assist a young gentleman with daily activities. The role involves engaging in arts and crafts, community outings, and providing companionship. A valid UK driver's license and being over 25 for insurance are essential. The charity invests in its staff and offers flexible hours, a supportive work environment, and numerous benefits, including ongoing professional development. Your passion for enhancing lives is what we believe makes a great employee.

Benefits

28 Days annual leave

Pension Scheme

Flexible Working Hours

Shopping Discounts Scheme

Ongoing professional development

Financial Hardship Fund

Qualifications

• Driver's license holder over the age of 25 for insurance purposes.
• Experience in support roles or care is appreciated but not necessary.

Responsibilities

• Support a young gentleman living in a house with 2 staff at all times.
• Engage in arts and crafts, outings, and activities like walking and music.
• Be a compassionate and reliable companion.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Reliability

Problem solving

Resilience

Job description

Community Integrated Care

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Benefits

• 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
• Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
• 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 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 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 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.

Role Overview

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

You would be supporting a young gentleman living in the house. He is supported with 2 staff at all times, he likes 1:1 time, but can have the choice of who supports him at different times. He loves to do arts and crafts, going to Discos and Dances, walking in our community parks. He like using the drive through at McDonalds He also loves walking, tabletop activities, potting plants, trampolining. He loves going out for runs in his car, collecting his medication from the Pharmacy, so being a driver would be preferable. In the house he likes to watch my DVD's and listen to music and likes to have a laugh. We are looking for a 20 hour Support Worker and a driver is essential for this role and must hold a UK manual license and be over the age of 25 for insurance purposes.

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. If you are interested in learning more about the role before submitting your application, please feel free to contact Julie Macdonald on [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 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.