Addiction Counsellor – Homeless Service-JN -102026-558267

Cpl Healthcare; Ulster; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary (DOE)

Permanent contract – 35 hours per week

Excellent work-life balance

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

Paid sick leave

Paid maternity leave

Bike-to-work scheme

And more

Job summary

CPL Healthcare is partnering with a leading Northwest charity to recruit an Addiction Counsellor in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. The role focuses on counselling individuals who have experienced long-term homelessness and trauma, within a recovery-led, harm-reduction framework.

Key duties include building rapport, providing care plans, liaising with services, and working with a multi-disciplinary team to support clients in their homes and community settings.

Qualifications

• Possess a professional qualification in counselling or psychotherapy at a minimum of Level 7 on the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland’s framework.
• Be accredited as a counsellor with Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, the Irish Association of Alcohol and Addiction Counsellors, or a relevant body within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy.
• Have a minimum of 2 years full-time experience in counselling with addiction-related work using harm reduction modalities.
• Understand issues relating to problem drug use, homelessness, dual-diagnosis and community-based rehab pathways.
• Ability to develop constructive relationships with clients and teams.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Ability to engage with internal and external agencies and develop Care Plans.
• Hold a full, clean driver’s licence and access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Provide addiction support to service users within a multidisciplinary team delivering wrap-around supports.
• Build rapport, offer counselling, advocate and liaise for clients at home and in the community.
• Apply a recovery-led, harm-reduction approach and meet people at their own pace.
• Develop positive relationships with agencies and contribute to care planning.
• Work with clients across Letterkenny and Co. Donegal.

Skills

Rapport building

Care planning

Team collaboration

Harm reduction approach

Communication skills

Education

Level 7 Counselling/Psychotherapy qualification

Accredited counsellor with IACP or ICPS bodies

Job description

Addiction Counsellor – Homeless Service – Letterkenny, Co. Donegal

CPL Healthcare is delighted to announce our partnership with a leading non-profit organisation in the Northwest that works with clients who have experienced long-termhomelessness, chronic trauma and other related issues including mental health and addiction.

As an Addiction Counsellor, provide addiction support to service users, while working as part of a supportive, multi-disciplinary team delivering a high-quality wrap around supports to those who have been long- term homeless and who have a history of complex trauma and rough sleeping.

As an Addiction Counsellor, you will use your skill set to build rapport, give counsel, advocate and liaise on behalf of clients both within the clients’ homes and the wider community.The service is recovery lead, using harm reduction approaches to meet people at their own pace.

This role will be based in Letterkenny, Co Donegal and will cover Co. Donegal.

If you are seeking a new professional challenge that offers a rewarding career and excellent opportunities for professional growth and advancement, this role could be ideal for you.

Interested candidates are required to:

• Possess a professional qualification in counselling or psychotherapy at a minimum of Level 7 on the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland’s framework
• Are accredited as a counsellor with Irish Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, the Irish Association of Alcohol and Addiction Counsellors, or a relevant body within the Irish Council for Psychotherapy
• Have a minimum of 2 years full time experience of working in a counselling setting where addiction issues were part of this work, using harm reduction modalities.
• An excellent understanding of issues relating to problem drug use, homelessness, dual-diagnosis and progression pathways towards community-based rehab, housing, and training services.
• Ability to develop constructive relationships with clients & team.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of the team
• Ability to develop positive relationships with internal and external agencies.
• Experience and skills in developing Care Plans.
• Hold a full clean driver’s licence and access to a car

Offer

• Competitive salary (DOE)
• Permanent contract – 35 hours per week
• Excellent work-life balance
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Pension scheme
• Paid sick leave
• Paid maternity leave
• Bike-to-work scheme
• And more