Service Leader - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Community Integrated Care

Community Integrated Care

Verified Company

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a dedicated and compassionate health and social care professional for a Service Leader based in Gosforth

Benefits & USP's:

Salary of up to £299131 per year
Work doing the things you enjoy, meaning work never feels like work
Work for a multi awardwinning Charity that invests all it profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities
Managed by supportive senior leaders
33 Days annual leave inclusive of statutory bank holidays (for full time, part time is worked out on a prorata 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
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 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 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.

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

Meet the People

We are 6 young adults in our 20's and 30's and share one thing; how different and unique we all are. We are all mobile and like to get out and about. Some of us may require different levels of support in our home or in the community. We have different challenges in our lives which include learning difficulties, communication, and autism. We have a large staff team at Ridgewood who are all trained to support us and our needs.

What is important to us

Our homes we are very proud of our own bungalows and have decorated them the way we like them with our own favourite things
Being busy we all like different things these can include shopping, music, gaming, eating out, cinema, theatre, the park, going for walks, going on public transport, bowling, days in the country and many, many more.
Having Fun we like to have fun at Ridgewood and have a laugh with our staff team. We love going out and having fun but we also love being as independent as possible in our bungalows. We also sometimes have parties and crafts in bungalow 1 (the office) and in the garden this is where we can all get together and have parties and barbeques
Our Staff we like warm, friendly, and kind staff we would not like anyone who is too loud or bossy but hopefully you like to laugh and sing It would be great if you'd like to work us especially if you are fun, like going out on adventures we promise you no two days are the same
Our Home There are 7 Bungalows at Ridgewood Number 1 is an office for staff The other 6 are for us we have our own tenancies and are decorate our homes how we like
We each have a large bathroom, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, plus a lounge and a private garden. Our neighbours are all amazing as our neighbours are each other, we have our own little street.
We have private parking which you can use to park your car
We have a shared car for outings
There is a big field at the front to use and have picnics on
There are lots of shops, pubs, cafés and restaurants close by South Gosforth metro is a 5minute walk meaning getting out and about is easy. There are also lots of local buses.

Other information

We each have at least one to one support with 4 staff on duty during the night The main shifts are Day 8am10pm and waking nights 10pm8am In order to support us to have the "Best Lives Possible" our team have specialist training in positive behaviour, autism and learning disabilities.

With experience working in a health or social care setting, you will have an upbeat positive manner, as well as having a genuine passion for supporting people to become a part of their local and wid