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Dublin Simon Community
Support Worker Days - Bray - (Homeless Services)
Bray
FULL TIME
October 23, 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 the role
Contract: Full-Time Permanent.
Working Hours: Day shifts are mandatory, 37.5 hours per week, 7-day availability – Monday to Sunday.
Salary: €30.000 moving 30.720 after probation
Location: San Remo – Bray
As a 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, if you are unsure of any of the requirements, contact the Recruitment Team on (01) 6354860
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From €30,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
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 the role
Contract: Full-Time Permanent.
Working Hours: Day shifts are mandatory, 37.5 hours per week, 7-day availability – Monday to Sunday.
Salary: €30.000 moving 30.720 after probation
Location: San Remo – Bray
As a 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 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.
- 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
Please note, if you are unsure of any of the requirements, contact the Recruitment Team on (01) 6354860
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From €30,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- •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 access to, or contact with, children or vulnerable persons. We will make such enquiries with An Garda Síochána as we deem necessary, to establish whether there is any criminal record or specified information relating to you as the job applicant. Are you currently or have you ever been the subject of criminal charges or investigation?
- •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?
- •Do you have any knowledge of addiction, treatment approaches, understanding of mental health and domestic violence issues?
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