Support Worker
Eploy
Washington, Tyne and Wear
Found 2 days ago · Confirmed live 2 days ago
Skills this job asks for
- Learning Disabilities
- Catheters
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Description
The opportunity and what makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work
- £13.12 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 transform lives by delivering high-quality, person-centred support that fosters independence and empowerment.
Our charity was founded in 1988 and we were one of the pioneers of the ‘Care in the Community’ agenda, enabling people to move out of long-stay institutions and live more fulfilling lives.
Since then, we’ve remained leaders in social care, providing bespoke support to thousands across the UK. Today, we support more than 2,600 people and employ 6,600 caring and committed colleagues across England and Scotland.
We have a proud history of breaking boundaries and are always looking for new ways to make a positive difference through bold ideas, innovative projects and impactful partnerships.
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
Supporting 5 individuals live their best lives possible, all of whom share the same home which is a large bungalow located in Washington.
Within this role you are required to support two ladies and three gents with ages raging from 43 to 80 years old. They love getting involved in the below activities.
Local walks, Shopping, Cinema, listening to music, spending time in their sensory home.
They all have their own likes and dislikes and will require you to respect this and support them to live their best lives possible.
Our staff team are great, and support the people we support to: Maintain their homes, complete personal care, support with eating, Moving & positioning, enjoying an active social life, planning days out.
In order to support us to have the Best Life Possible, our team have specialist training in Moving & Positioning, Administration of Medication, Epilepsy, Dysphagia, End of Life, Autism and Learning Disabilities, Visual Impairment, Epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Dysphagia, PEG/Catheter, Palliative/EOL, Autism, LD.
35 Hrs pw
Shifts
AM – 8-3
PM – 3-10
Night – 10-8
Or
Long Day – 8-10
About you:
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
- Resilience
If you are interested in learning more about the role before submitting your application, please feel free to contact our recruitment specialist for a friendly informal chat on the employer
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 the employer
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.
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