About Us: At Dublin Simon Community, we’re dedicated to making home a reality. We empower individuals to access and sustain housing through services like prevention, addiction treatment, emergency response, and targeted interventions, in collaboration with our partners.
If you share our values and want to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for client-focused, friendly, and adaptable individuals to join our team.
We prioritise best practices in HR, including staff training, communication, and involvement in decision-making, to create a supportive and effective work environment.
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.
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 Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Working Hours: a 5-week rolling roster of early and evening shifts, 37.5 hours a week, from Monday to Sunday availability, day shifts only
Location: Oak House, Dublin 7
Salary: €33,500 starting DOE
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 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.
Role 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.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- 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)
Desirable:
- A Passion for helping people.
- Flexibility to work in an agile environment.
- Experience in carrying out Health & Safety inspections and audits.
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community
- 5% matched contribution to your pension.
- Paid Maternity Leave Policy.
- Commuter Travel Tax Savers Ticket.
- 1st-week Comprehensive Training.
- Progression Opportunities.
Shortlisting will be in progress throughout the period that the vacancy is live, so you may be called for interview and/or the vacancy may be filled before the closing date.
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.
If you are unsure of any of the requirements, contact the Recruitment Team on (01) 6354860
Please note: If you are unsure of any of the requirements, please contact the Recruitment Team at (01) 6354860. Shortlisting will continue throughout the recruitment process.
Dublin Simon Community is an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.
