Relief Support Worker

Inspire Wellbeing • Full-time • Omagh, Omagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom • £12.70 / hour • 3d ago

At Inspire, we believe everyone deserves to live a healthy, meaningful life filled with purpose and connection.

As a Relief Support Worker at our Mulhern Close service, you’ll be at the heart of that mission, providing hands-on care and emotional support to people with learning disabilities and complex needs.

🌟 About the Role

You’ll play a key role in day-to-day life at Mulhern Close, where your support makes a real difference. This is a varied, rewarding, and physically active role that involves:

Personal care: including showering, bathing, changing, toileting etc
Practical care: feeding support, assistance with drinks and medication
Daily living: laundry, cleaning, general house maintenance, and completing daily notes
Relationship-building: offering emotional support and helping to create a calm, homely environment
Behavioural support: engaging in personal safety techniques where required and working in line with individual risk assessments

💪 What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for compassionate, resilient individuals who are able to:

Work calmly and confidently in a service that may involve incidents of behaviours that challenge
Follow agreed support plans and risk assessments to keep everyone safe
Provide practical care with warmth, kindness, and dignity
Work independently or as part of a team
Build strong, respectful relationships with the people we support

You don’t need previous experience, just the right values and a commitment to making a difference.

🎓 Training and Support

All new staff will receive full training on personal care and positive behaviour support, including how to safely use personal safety techniques in line with our organisational training.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re passionate about making a difference and think this sounds like the role for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Our Organisation

Inspire is an all-island charity and social enterprise and our aim is wellbeing for all. We work together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions to ensure they live with dignity and realise their full potential.

We campaign to create a society free from stigma and discrimination with a culture of compassion that focuses on people and their abilities.