COPE Galway: Fairgreen Hostel Manager
Job Title: Fairgreen Hostel Manager
Reporting to: Head of Homeless Services
The Role
The Fairgreen Hostel Manager has responsibility for the leadership and operation of this STA (Supported Temporary Accommodation) service for individual men experiencing homelessness, focusing on ensuring the provision of a high quality service in line with NQSF (National Quality Standards Framework for Homeless Services) and leading, supporting and supervising our staff to work to their fullest potential. They have a role in mentoring and supporting their colleagues with an aim of collaboratively embedding the values of COPE Galway and a trauma informed approach within the service.
The Service
COPE Galway’s Fairgreen Hostel is a 24/7 26-bed STA service for men who are experiencing homelessness in Galway. The central and primary focus of the team’s work is to support people to source long term accommodation in order to break their cycle of homelessness. Each individual client is assigned a keyworker to work with them on a one-to-one basis to assess their holistic needs and to together determine a support plan which may include social supports, lifeskill supports, mental and physical health supports, education supports and addiction supports.
The team includes both social care and ancillary staff and the Manager is part of a leadership team that includes a team leader who they also line manage.
A long-standing service in Galway City, Fairgreen Hostel is part of a suite of emergency responses to homelessness offered by COPE Galway.
Please see Job Description attached below.
To Apply:
Deadline is 3rd of July