Support Worker

Community Integrated Care • Full-time • Aberdeen • 2w ago

Our Benefits: • £12.50 per hour, rising to £13.01 per hour from 1st April 2025 • Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing learning and development (including SVQ funding) • 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 • Contributory pension scheme • There is no uniform - you can wear your own casual clothes • Access to a free app offering retail discounts, leisure savings and holiday and travel discounts • Employee of the month award and other recognition schemes • Free Employee Assistance programme available 24/7, providing a wide range of financial, legal and consumer services, as well as counselling, life coaching and career guidance • Financial support options to help in times of hardship using our Wellbeing Fund and our partnership with the Care Workers Charity • Recommend a Friend bonus scheme • We pay for your PVG check! • Guaranteed and contracted hours • 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) – pro-rated for part-time staff • Good work/life balance – rotas are issued 4+ weeks in advance enabling you to plan ahead! • The opportunity to try new things while supporting people to achieve their goals.

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

We are currently recruiting for a full-time (37.5 hour) Support Worker to join our dedicated team in Donald Dewar Court, Aberdeen. In this service, we support 7 individuals who live in two purpose-built bungalows with their own gardens. The people we support all have different needs, including requiring some assistance with their mobility, personal care and to manage their day to day lives and maintain their own homes. They have a wide range of interests and hobbies, which include spending time in their gardens (they have a trampoline and a swing), colouring in, horse riding, going for walks, going to the pub and enjoying meals out with friends. We provide support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so there will be an expectation of some weekend work. Our shift patterns are: - 7am - 2.30pm - 2.15pm - 9.45pm - Waking nights (these are usually covered by a dedicated waking night team) Due to the needs of the people we support, a full UK driving license is essential for this role. To be able to enrol on the company insurance, you must also be over 25 years old. One of the values of Community Integrated Care is our passion for our people and every year we invest in our front-line worker pay in line with the Living Wage increase each April. Our promise has always been clear: we will do everything in our power to improve pay for colleagues. And so, if you start with us between now and 31 March 2025 your pay with be £12.50 and then from the 1st April 2025 , this will increase to £13.01. We are looking for Support Workers to cover 22.5 hours, 30 hours and 37.5 hours.

Your values:

The people we support like to be supported by people who respect them and their homes, but who also like to have fun! We like people who are reliable and honest, so the people we support can build trust and know that you have their best interests at heart. It’s important that you are reliable and honest and can communicate well with everyone. 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 Eva Otto, our Recruitment Specialist on [email protected] 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 [email protected] Community Integrated Care is an Equal Opportunities and Disability Confident employer.