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Dublin Simon Community
Day Support Worker - Homeless Services
Dublin
FULL TIME
December 2, 2024
About us:
At Dublin Simon Community, we are passionate about making home a reality. Our aim is to empower people to access and retain a home by providing housing, prevention, addiction treatment, emergency response, and other targeted interventions, through advocacy and partnership.
If you share our values and want to make a difference then apply for this role with Dublin Simon Community and join the team!
About long-term accommodation services:
Long-Term Accommodation services provide support for single people who are homeless with mental health, addiction or personal care needs. Residents are mostly people who have been homeless for long periods of time and who do not have the capacity to live independently. Every resident has their own room and there are also large communal rooms and gardens. The project operates a case management system where staff provide support to residents through individualised support plans. Residents are also taught life skills to increase their ability to maintain independent or semi-independent living.
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community:
Contract Type – Full-Time Permanent
Working Hours – a 5-week rolling roster of night shifts, 37.5 hours a week, from Monday to Sunday availability, day shifts only.
Location – Dublin 7, North Circular Road.
Salary – €30,000 (€15.38 per hour) progressing to €30,796 (€15.79 per hour) after probation.
As Support Worker, you’ll help to support clients in their daily needs. You will contribute to ensuring effective and consistent best-practice standards are followed in the Dublin Simon Community accommodation services. From facilitating participation initiatives, to working with the wider team to discuss and plan how to best support the clients with their goals, each day you’ll help clients to achieve their goals and change their lives. As well as our induction program, you will be provided with 10 training days throughout the year, ensuring you have the support and training to succeed in this role.
Your responsibilities:
Please note that we reserve the right to offer the position to a successful candidate prior to the deadline of receipt of applications and we advise that you apply early.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: €30,000.00-€30,796.00 per year
Schedule:
At Dublin Simon Community, we are passionate about making home a reality. Our aim is to empower people to access and retain a home by providing housing, prevention, addiction treatment, emergency response, and other targeted interventions, through advocacy and partnership.
If you share our values and want to make a difference then apply for this role with Dublin Simon Community and join the team!
About long-term accommodation services:
Long-Term Accommodation services provide support for single people who are homeless with mental health, addiction or personal care needs. Residents are mostly people who have been homeless for long periods of time and who do not have the capacity to live independently. Every resident has their own room and there are also large communal rooms and gardens. The project operates a case management system where staff provide support to residents through individualised support plans. Residents are also taught life skills to increase their ability to maintain independent or semi-independent living.
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community:
- 25 days annual leave.
- 5% matched contribution to your pension.
- Paid Sick Leave Policy.
- Paid Maternity Leave Policy.
- Bike to Work Scheme.
- Commuter Travel Tax Savers Ticket.
- 1st-week Comprehensive Training.
- Progression Opportunities.
Contract Type – Full-Time Permanent
Working Hours – a 5-week rolling roster of night shifts, 37.5 hours a week, from Monday to Sunday availability, day shifts only.
Location – Dublin 7, North Circular Road.
Salary – €30,000 (€15.38 per hour) progressing to €30,796 (€15.79 per hour) after probation.
As Support Worker, you’ll help to support clients in their daily needs. You will contribute to ensuring effective and consistent best-practice standards are followed in the Dublin Simon Community accommodation services. From facilitating participation initiatives, to working with the wider team to discuss and plan how to best support the clients with their goals, each day you’ll help clients to achieve their goals and change their lives. As well as our induction program, you will be provided with 10 training days throughout the year, ensuring you have the support and training to succeed in this role.
Your responsibilities:
- Support the project/key workers and management in the implementation of operational and strategic goals; including following up on support plan actions, supporting the service user to achieve their goals.
- Building professional relationships of trust with all service users and residents. Treating all service users and residents with dignity and respect.
- Therapeutic and diversionary interventions providing emotional and motivational support, promoting positive mental health attitudes, self-esteem and self-respect.
- Liaise with a range of service providers in the voluntary and public sectors (e.g. housing providers, health care professionals & social welfare). Establish and expand the services to meet physical and mental health needs.
- Deliver the personal, professional, and social development programme.
- Assistance in managing medication/health regimes, accessing primary and secondary healthcare, liaising with GP and Pharmacists, methadone providers, arranging doctor’s/healthcare appointments and accompanying them to appointments.
- Process all incoming enquiries and referrals to accommodation of service users.
- Support service users to liaise with landlords and facilitate when moving location.
- Conduct harm reduction interventions; overdose prevention, stabilisation.
- Completion of daily duties which may include assisting clients and supporting them around their mental and physical health, addiction issues, ensuring that physical needs such as bathing and washing clothing are carried out and general upkeep of building by cleaning.
- Support the safe and healthy functioning of each building to ensure the safety of and the service users/residents in that building, procedures relating to fire safety, hazard management, building checks, sharps disposal, and management of challenging behaviour.
- Managing complex and challenging behaviour and conflict management and ensuring residents adhere to accommodation agreements.
- To carry out all administrative duties such as: managing petty cash, record keeping (electronic), record keeping (paper), filing, answering queries via phone.
- Ensure consistent handovers, diary, incident reports, and follow-ups, in accordance with organisation policies.
- Ensure consistent handovers, diary, incident reports, and follow-ups, in accordance with organisation policies.
- Ensure services and projects are compliant with organisational policies, procedures, and guidelines in the following areas: Fire Safety, Confidentiality, Child Protection, Data Protection, Admissions, Case Management, and Disengagement, etc.
- Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by your line manager.
- Level 6, 7 or 8 in a relevant field with 6 months of experience in a similar setting (including voluntary work and college placement)
- Level 5 in relevant field with 12 months experience in a similar setting (including voluntary work and college placement)
- A Passion for helping people.
- Flexibility to work in an agile environment.
- Willingness to learn.
- Experience in carrying out Health & Safety inspections and audits.
Please note that we reserve the right to offer the position to a successful candidate prior to the deadline of receipt of applications and we advise that you apply early.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: €30,000.00-€30,796.00 per year
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
- In order to work in Ireland a non EEA National, unless they are exempted, must hold a valid Employment Permit. Do you require an Employment Permit to work in Ireland?
- Garda Vetting is conducted in respect of any person who is carrying out work or activity, a necessary and regular part of which consists mainly of the person having assess to, or contact with, children or vulnerable persons. Are you currently or have you ever been the subject of criminal charges or investigation?
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