Saint John of God Community Services, Dublin South East, provides Day and Residential Services for people with learning disabilities in the Dublin South East Region.

Life Skills Facilitator – Day Services

SALARY: Salary Scale 748MER
Salary range –€35,081 - €50,864 (point 1 – 13)

ANNUAL LEAVE: Annual leave allowance is pro-rata 24 days (You must take 4 days annual leave at Easter; 9 days during the first 2 weeks in August and 4/5 days at Christmas depending on how Christmas falls)

LOCATION: Dublin, South East

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• To ensure that the service-users receive the highest standard of training, education, care and development.
• To identify and promote opportunities for meaningful participation and integration for service users in their community through education, employment, leisure pursuits and social roles.
• To design, develop and deliver educational skills teaching workshops to the service users in line with their individual goals.
• To understand the meaning of individual rights and responsibilities, informed consent and due process and apply the principles of a Human Rights Based Approach in all interactions with individuals.
• To support advocacy initiatives, encouraging service users to be actively involved in decisions making.
• To seek to involve service users’ chosen natural support network in the person centred planning process, and to always look to build people’s natural supports, by forming and maintaining friendships with peers and community members to the extent desired.
• To support a Total Communication approach within the Service, ensuring ongoing improvement in the accessibility of information for service users.
• To ensure appropriate record keeping as required.
• To support service users, staff and people’s wider circle of support involvement in individual’s health plans and reviews, including providing written and/or verbal feedback to clinicians as required.
• To be responsible for the prompt response to all accidents, incidents, near misses and allegations involving service users and staff and ensure that the Supervisor is notified immediately. To follow reporting procedures and participate as required in any investigations and risk assessments.
• To support the implementation of Positive Behaviour Plans, including skills teaching programmes and alternative communication strategies.
• To promote the use of visual communication aids and non-verbal communication strategies between service users, staff, natural supports and community members.

The person will be required to carry out other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Supervisor, Manager or Director including the direct supervision of service-users as agreed with the Supervisor or as required. Instructor’s may be required to provide support in other locations as service needs arise.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

Essential

• Recognised, relevant and validated qualification minimum QQI Level 6
• Interest/Experience of working with adults with intellectual disabilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of Person-Centered Planning process.
• Excellent team-working skills.
• Understanding of Human Rights and Advocacy Concepts.
• Understanding of Risk Management.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Knowledge of Positive Behaviour Support.
• Knowledge of community integration and building social capital.
• Knowledge of how to respectfully provide personal care.
• Full Manual EU Driving Licence

Desirable

• 1 year experience of working with adults with intellectual disabilities.
• Experience in designing, developing and delivering educational programmes.
• Risk Assessment experience.
• Experience of Human Rights and Advocacy.
• Experience of PCP Process

Please click here to apply.

Informal enquires can be made by email to: Sabrina Tierney, Day Services Coordinator, Sabrina.tierney@sjog.ie

Closing date for application: Friday 16th May 2025