Join Our Team at Positive Futures!

Transform Lives and Your Career
AtPositive Futures, we believe in making a difference for the people we support and for our incredible team. If youre looking for a role where you canpositively impact lives every day,yourein the right place!

Family Support Worker

Location:Tyrone, Omagh & Fermanagh
Salary:Up to £12.93 per hour
Hours:20 hours per week
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date:11th August2025

About the Role

At Positive Futures, we support people with learning disabilities,acquiredbrain injuries, and autism, helping them live fulfilling and independent lives.

As aFamily Support Worker, youll be at the heart of this mission, providing essential support and making a real impact. Contributing to the development and delivery of a high-quality Service which meets the needs and aspirations the children or young people we support with a learning disability and their families to deliver our Mission.

This role will be providing support to children age 5-18 years old with a diagnosis of a learning disability. You will be responsible for commencing new families into the service, completing assessments, risk assessments and setting targets. You will also complete regular reviews with all families on current support provided. This role will also involve directly supporting children on the service to take part in community based activities as well as supervision of support staff.

What Youll Be Doing

• Family Support
• Self-directed Support
• Operations
• Professional Practice

What Were Looking For

We want to hear from people who share our passion! To be successful in this role,youllneed:

Essential Criteria

• Experience of closely supporting families or individuals through challenging events, for a minimum of two years on a professional basis

• Full driving license and access to a car insured for business purposes to transport people supported

Desirable Criteria

• Advocating and negotiating on behalf of families

• Using / knowledge of Person-Centred Planning & thinking tools

• Representing people who experience disadvantage

• Community networking and partnership working

• Advocacy

• Mediation/ conflict resolution

• Developing innovative and creative solutions to ensure stakeholder engagement and effective service delivery

Why Join Positive Futures?

We know that looking after our team is just as important as looking after the people we support. Thats why we offeramazing benefits, including:

• Westfield Health Cash Plan Get money back on health bills
• 24/7 UK GP Access & Counselling Line
• Training & Career Development Opportunities
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Enhanced Sick Pay (after probation)

Ready to Make a Difference?

Were aninclusive, diverseworkplace whereeveryone is welcome. If youre excited about this opportunity but dont quite meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Wed love to hear from you!

Apply nowand start your journey with Positive Futures.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Skills:
support worker autism Young people Safeguarding Children learning disabilties