Senior Support Worker - supported living service in Coleraine

Join Positive Futures as a Senior Support Worker and take the next step in your care career, providing high quality support to people with a learning disability, acquired brain injury or autism, while mentoring, coaching and acting as a strong role model for the staff around you. This is a role for someone who already knows what good support looks like, and wants to help others get there too.

You'll hold coordinator responsibility for a number of the people we support, taking the lead on developing, reviewing and evaluating their person-centred plans. You'll take on Shift Leader responsibilities when needed, offering guidance to colleagues, and you'll provide regular, good quality person-centred supervision to the staff you support. Step up into coordinator and shift leadership responsibility, with support to work towards a QCF Level 3 if you don't already hold one.

Coach, mentor and supervise staff, helping them deliver the same quality of support you do. Take the lead on reviews, risk management, and health and safety oversight within your service. If you've got care experience already and you're ready to lead as well as support, we'd love to hear from you.

This is where hands-on support meets genuine leadership, day in, day out. As a Senior Support Worker, you'll provide high quality, person-centred support to the people you work with, while also holding lead responsibility for coordinating reviews with the people we support, their families and other significant people in their lives. You'll act as a strong role model at all times, promoting best practice in everything from personal care to positive behaviour support.

You'll be involved in inducting, coaching and mentoring staff, particularly around active support and managing behaviour that challenges, using stress and coping plans or Positive Behaviour Support plans where relevant. As Shift Leader, you'll offer advice and guidance to colleagues, chair or take part in meetings, and maintain oversight of records, finances, medication and health and safety within your service.

This role suits someone with at least 6 months' paid experience in a health and social care or community setting, ideally with experience leading a shift or acting as a key worker, and confidence using digital systems for records, rotas and incident reporting. A QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent) is preferred, though we'll consider candidates willing to work towards it.

Required Criteria:

• At least 6 months paid experience supporting people in a health and social care or community setting
• Experience leading a shift or acting as a key worker, including supervising colleagues and coordinating reviews or plans
• Basic digital skills e.g. to record notes and use rota, HR or care systems.

Desired Criteria:

• QCF / NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent - It is the applicant's responsibility to demonstrate how their qualification is equivalent.

Founded in 1995, Positive Futures has spent 30 years supporting people with learning disabilities, acquired brain injury and autism to live full, meaningful lives as valued members of their communities across Northern Ireland. At Positive Futures, we foster a culture of respect, innovation and empowerment. We believe in putting people first - both those we support and our staff. We support staff to grow professionally and personally, and we emphasise collaboration, listening and trust.

Company Benefits:

• Vacation
• Paid time off
• Paid sick days
• Retirement plan and/or pension
• Employee development programs
• A diversity program
• Competitive salary
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Wellbeing Scheme
• Work With Charities
• Social Opportunities
• Annual performance review
• On the job learning
• Progression opportunities
• Bereavement leave
• Company Mileage & Expenses

Salary: £26,138.00 - £28,188.00 per year