Job | Full Time

Senior Support Worker, County Fermanagh

Positive Futures

Carer Professions
£17,852- £19,909 per annum
37.50
Positive Futures is the leading charity for people with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autistic spectrum condition and their families.

• Do you believe that people with disabilities have the same rights and choices as everybody else?
• Are you caring, kind, compassionate and patient?
• Would you like to help people achieve their dreams?

We have the following vacancy at our Lakeland Supported Living Service where we support people in Ballinamallard, Enniskillen and Lisnaskea:

Senior Support Worker - Varied shift pattern to include sleepovers and waking nights

If you can give us a commitment to put the people we support first, we can give you:
 
• Holiday allowance up to 33 days per year
• 4% pension contribution (for eligible staff)
• Employee discount card
• Loyalty benefits
• Generous sickness and maternity pay

You will:

  • Support people to live the lives they want in their own homes
  • Work in a team to deliver support on a 24 hour shift schedule
  • Take part in Person Centred Supervision and Appraisal with Line Manager and carry these out with Support Workers
  • Take responsibility as "Shift Leader" offering advice / guidance to other staff as required

You will have:

  • At least 2 years' experience of supporting people within a social care setting
  • Experience of:

-assessment, development and implementation of Person Centred Care / Support Plans
-using behaviour management strategies
-assessing/managing risk

  • A full driving licence and access to a car insured for business purposes* to transport people supported

*This criteria is waived for those unable to meet it due to disability

To find out more and complete an application form, please visit www.positive-futures.net before midnight on Sunday 7 October 2018. Interviews are scheduled for Monday 15 October 2018.

 

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered with the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (NIC101385).

Closing Date

Sunday / 07 October 2018
11:59pm

Contact Details

Unit 16 Manderwood Park
Lisnaskea
BT92 0FS
United Kingdom

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