Dublin Simon Community: Night Support Worker - Maple House
Night Support Worker - Maple House
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!
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community:
- 25 days of 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
About the role:
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. Earliest start will be 8pm and latest finish time will be 8:30am. Shifts are between 10.5 and 12hrs.
Location – North Circular Rd, Dublin 1, Maple House.
Salary - €30,000 + 12% night allowance or €17.22 per hour.
As a Support Worker Nights you will work directly with clients as part of a team to ensure the provision of short-term accommodation services to homeless adults in Dublin City Centre. You will meet and assess the needs of clients on a nightly basis, responding to crisis and incidents, engaging clients in service activities and support plans.
Your responsibilities
- Carry out health and safety checks as per local policy and recording of same.
- Provide support to the clients at night, recording on support plans, updating PASS and nights bed list, encouraging sleep hygiene.
- Provide care interventions, including daily living skills support, relapse prevention support.
- Ensure all new clients receive a robust induction to the service and are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
- Ensure building is secure at night and that all systems are working (alarms, CCTV, emergency response details) and adhering to the lone working policy.
- Therapeutic and diversionary interventions, providing emotional and motivational support, promoting positive mental health attitudes, self-esteem and self-respect.
- Support the manager in the implementation of the strategic and operational action objectives. Taking responsibility for developing and implementing strategic and operational goals.
- Preparations of rooms for service user intake to ensure standards are maintained.
- Crisis and conflict management.
- Ensure consistent handovers, diary, incident reports and follow-ups, in accordance with organisation policies.
- Accommodation management; ensuring routine maintenance is carried out, cleaning, security inspections and bedroom health and safety inspections occur, in line with operational procedures and standards.
- Ensure neighbourhood policy is implemented and managed at all times.
- Active interventions; harm reduction, overdose prevention.
- Interpersonal skills development, dealing with relationships, family liaison and behavioural management issues.
Essential for the role:
- BA/BS degree (level 7 or 8) in Psychology, Community Development, Counselling, Social Care, Social Work, or similar.
Or - QQI Level 5 in relevant field with 12 months experience in 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, if you are unsure of any of the requirements, contact the Recruitment Team on careers@dubsimon.ie
Apply for the position
Application due date: 27/10/2024
For queries relating to this position please telephone (01) 635 4860