Support Worker

Job Description


Client
VANRATH are delighted to be working alongside our client, a well-known Third Sector Organisation based in Cookstown to recruit Support Workers on an ongoing temporary basis with immediate start date.
The organisation supports adults with a learning disability and/or acquired brain injury and/or autistic spectrum condition to live in their own homes.
The Ideal Person

  • Personal or work experience of providing care or support for someone.


You can meet this criteria if you can tell us about experience such as caring or supporting a child, family member, relation or friend, OR volunteering or completing a work placement where you provided care or support.

  • Full, valid driving licence or an ability to travel independently to meet the requirements of the post


Responsibilities
As Support Worker you will:

  • Form a positive relationship with the person supported, maintaining appropriate professional boundaries with the people we support and their families.
  • Learn about the person and share that knowledge with others who are also supporting the person.
  • Contribute to the assessment, planning, co-ordination and review of Person Centred Portfolios of the people we support.
  • Ensure every person we support is protected from abuse at all times and report any issue of concern in line with Positive Futures' Adult Safeguarding Policy.
  • Enable people to participate in, and contribute to, their local community as active citizens (e.g. involvement in social, leisure and community-based activities, engagement in volunteering, training and employment opportunities as relevant).
  • Support people to manage their medication and finances as independently as possible.
  • Accurately maintain and store records within the service, using appropriate systems, templates and record keeping processes in relation to medication, finance, behaviours, incidents, communication, risk assessment etc.


For further information on this vacancy, or any other HR job in Belfast or wider Northern Ireland, please apply via the link below or contact Emma Hall or Jamie Gault in the strictest confidence.