Support Worker, Community Health

Positive Futures is positive about people. We transform peoples lives every day. We support people who have a learning disability, acquired brain injury and autism.

wonderful things can and do happen when people get the right support, at the right time, from the right people.

Purpose of Role

To provide high quality support to people to enable them to live independently and to have choice and control over all aspects of their life in order to deliver our Mission

Positive Futures for people with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autism working together to achieve dreams and transform lives.

About The Role

What does a Support Worker do?

Put simply, your job is to support people to live the life they want.

To Help You To Do This, You Will

• receive a full and paid induction
• spend time getting to know the person you are supporting
• learn how best to support that person
• work as part of a dedicated team to provide support.

You dont need formal qualifications or experience, but you do need to be kind, patient, and have a sense of fun.

Main Responsibilities

Providing Person Centred Support

• Form a positive relationship with the person being supported, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with them and their families.
• Promote and support relationships, which enable people with a learning disability, to be included, and engage in their local community. Ensuring the high quality, person-centred support (outlined in the persons Person-Centred Portfolio) needed to live the life they want and achieve their dreams/goals.

Supporting People to Develop and Maintain Key Skills in relation to Housing Support

• Support people to understand and fulfil their responsibilities to look after their home in line with any tenancy agreements.
• Support people with domestic chores such as shopping, preparation of healthy meals, cleaning, gardening, washing clothes and ironing. Supporting Independence, Social and Communication Skills
• Support people to have choice and control over all aspects of their lives.
• Support people to make decisions based upon informed choices and speak up for themselves and/or seek support from advocacy services where needed.

Supporting people to be safe and healthy

• Support people to be safe and healthy in all aspects of their lives: by maintaining their physical and emotional well-being.
• by supporting people to understand and protect themselves from different types of abuse.

Supporting Independence, Social And Communication Skills

• Support people to have choice and control over all aspects of their lives, enabling them to participate and contribute to their local community (e.g. involvement in social, leisure, training, volunteering and employment opportunities as relevant).
• Support people to make decisions based upon informed choices, understand their responsibilities in relation to these choices and speak up for themselves and/or seek support from advocacy services where needed

Administration

• Accurately and effectively maintain and store records and short reports within the Service, utilising appropriate systems, templates and record keeping processes (e.g. behaviours, incidents, communication, risk assessment etc.)
• Use ICT systems to carry out the responsibilities of the post (e.g. Microsoft Office, HR and Finance information system, support planner system)

See job profile for more information. All duties must be carried out within the policies and procedures of the Organisation.

Required Criteria

• Personal or work experience of providing care or support for someone
• Basic digital skills e.g. to record notes and use rota, HR or care systems.
• Full, valid driving licence and access to a car insured for business purposes in order to transport people we support. Class 2 business insurance is required. Or Full, valid driving licence or ability to travel independently to meet the requirements of the post.

Skills Needed

About The Company

Founded in 1995 (initially under the name United Response NI), we now operate across Northern Ireland offering a wide range of services tailored to individuals with learning disabilities, acquired brain injury or autism and the families who support them. Our services include supported…