Sligo Social Services invites applications for the post of

Peer Connectors - Crisis Resolution Services

(15hours per week; Salary is inclusive of evening and weekend work up to 11.30pm on a Rota basis)
with Solace Café, Sligo town

Solace Café will provide an out-of-hours friendly and supportive community crisis prevention and crisis response service often in the evenings and at weekends in a café style/non-clinical safe environment through social, peer support, crisis intervention and recovery-based supports and services. The café service will support individuals and their family members/carers to deal with an immediate crisis and to plan safely drawing on their strengths, resilience, and coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing. Attendees can access coping strategies, one to one peer support, psychosocial and recovery supports provided by paid core staff, assisted by a team of appropriately trained volunteers, working on a pro-rata basis. Those who attend will be signposted to relevant mental health and well-being services and community supports as required.

Suitable candidates will be expected to have a minimum of level 5 qualification in social care or a related discipline and able to demonstrate a personal lived experience of mental health issues/challenges or experience in supporting someone with mental health challenges, who can respond to human distress in a recovery-oriented way.

Short listing will apply.
Satisfactory references and police vetting will be required.

For further information contact roisin@sligosocialservices.ie or phone 0858051310 

To apply for the position, please submit CV and letter of application to: recruitment@sligosocialservices.ie

Closing date for receipt of applications: July 2nd at 4.30pm

Sligo Social Services is an Equal Opportunities Employer