Advanced Support Worker

About Community Integrated Care

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!

• 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
• We will pay for your PVG
• 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
• Investment in your wellbeing
• Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
• Guaranteed & Contracted Hours
• Financial Hardship Fund

We are recruiting for an Advanced Support Worker role in Tullibody. In this service, you will be supporting a number of individuals with complex mental health concerns, learning disabilities and autism who have recently transitioned to their own homes. For most of these individuals, this is their first experience of having their own home, so it's been a really exciting time for them!

Our Advanced Support Worker team provides mentorship to the team to help them to improve the lives of the people we support. This can involve providing training, supporting to review care plans and risk assessments, mentoring staff to develop their own skills and interests by developing their knowledge and care provision. The service has complex care so knowledge around support planning and helping people to achieve outcomes would be expected.

Prior experience of supporting individuals with complex mental health concerns or learning disabilities is highly desirable. Our ideal candidate would have a SVQ 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent) and strong experience in supporting individuals with mental health concerns and learning disabilities. If you do not have a qualification, you need suitable experience.

You will know how to connect with people and be passionate about supporting people to live independently. You will also be a brilliant mentor and share your skills and experiences with your colleagues.

This is a full‑time role (36 hour) and the successful applicant should have flexibility to work 12 hour shifts to includes some weekends, days and waking nights. 8am‑8pm and 8pm‑8am.

Our Company Values – We Include;
We Deliver;
We Aspire;
We Respect;
We Enable – 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…

• A problem solver
• Resilience
• Patience
• Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
• A strong work ethic
• Reliability
• Honesty
• Determination

If you have read this advert and feel like it’s exactly the role you’re looking for, please click ‘Apply’ to take you through to our short application form.

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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 be an organisation that is truly fair and equal to all – where individual diversity is valued, unique characteristics…