Support Worker (Waking Nights)
Additional information:
Hours: 36 hours per week. Salary scales are based on full-time hours (37.5 hours per week). Salary for part-time hours will be calculated on a pro rata basis.
While the world sleeps, our Waking Night Support Workers are there to provide reassurance, support and a safe, welcoming environment throughout the night. You'll help people feel secure, comfortable and valued in their own home, responding to individual needs and promoting wellbeing, independence and dignity. By providing attentive overnight support, you'll play an important role in helping people live the life they choose and ensuring they feel safe and supported every step of the way.
Support work is an impactful job. It's the reason people get to live life their way.
Join Positive Futures as a Support Worker and help people with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autism to live independently, and to have real choice and control over their own lives. You dont need formal qualifications or experience for this role, just kindness, patience, and a sense of fun.
Youll get to know the person youre supporting properly: their goals, their routines, what independence looks like for them. From there, youll support them with everything from daily living skills and personal care, to getting out into their community, keeping in touch with the people who matter to them, and speaking up for themselves.
A proper start: Receive a full, paid induction before youre expected to hit the ground running and join a dedicated team wholl support you every step of the way.
Genuine independence, genuine impact: Help people manage their homes, their finances, their health and their social lives, all in a way that puts their choices first.
No experience required, just the right qualities: If youre kind, patient, and reliable, we ll teach you the rest, and we ll cover your NISCC registration too.
If youre looking for work that means something, makes a real difference to people, every day, and youve got the patience and values this role needs, we ll love to hear from you.
About the role
Every day looks a little different, because every person you support is different too.
As a Support Worker, youll form a positive relationship with the person you support, always maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with them and their families. Youll help them look after their home, manage their money and medication as independently as possible, and get the right support from other services when they need it, whether that s a GP, a social worker, or an advocate.
Youll support people to stay safe and healthy in every part of their life, including personal care where its needed, always treating people with dignity and respect. Youll help them get out into their community, stay connected to the people who matter to them, and speak up for themselves, seeking advocacy support where it s needed rather than deciding things for them.
Youll also act as a role model for other staff and volunteers, sharing what you learn and helping new colleagues find their feet. Accurate record keeping (incidents, risk assessments, communication logs) is part of the job too, using our usual digital systems.
If you can bring warmth, reliability and genuine respect for peoples right to choose their own life, this is a role where that really counts.
About the company
We are Positive Futures, a leading charity based in Northern Ireland dedicated to supporting children, young people and adults with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autism, and their families. Since 1995, we’ve been driven by the belief that everyone has a role to play, and that disability should not prevent full and active participation in society.
Required Criteria
- Minimum 6 months experience providing paid or voluntary care or support for someone.
- Full, valid UK driving licence to meet the requirements of the post.
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