Project Worker - Suaimhneas

Depaul; Dublin; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Pension scheme

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Employee assistance

Training & development

Job summary

Depaul is seeking a Project Worker for Suaimhneas in Dublin to support women in early recovery from addiction. The role is a permanent contract, 35 hours per week, on a 7-day rota, with a salary of €39,872.09 per annum. Applicants must have experience in recovery settings, a recovery coaching qualification, and strong IT skills.

The role emphasises safeguarding, care planning, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams, while promoting wellbeing and independence for residents.

Qualifications

• 2 years’ paid experience in a drug-free/recovery model setting (residential desirable).
• Experience in care planning and keyworking with evidence available.

Responsibilities

• Meet practical needs of service users: independent living skills, cooking, cleaning, laundry, budgeting, time use and self-care.
• Assess needs and refer to appropriate agencies.
• Provide key working, document activities, advocate and report progress.
• Liaise with external agencies, recovery day programs, health boards and county councils.
• Adhere to quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Support team through handovers, supervise Relief Workers and Volunteers.
• Engage in supervision and annual appraisals for development.
• Follow Depaul Policies, Health & Safety, Boundaries, Confidentiality.

Skills

Experience in recovery model setting

Recovery coaching qualification

Risk assessment knowledge

Good communication

IT/computer literacy

Job description

Project Worker - Suaimhneas

Permanent Contract

Location - Dublin

Hours - 35 Hours Per week across a 7-day rota

Salary - €39.872.09 per annum

Scope of Responsibility

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide support through the recovery model in Suaimhneas. Suaimhneas is a 6 bed recovery model supporting women in early recovery from addiction issues. The primary focus is to promote the wellbeing of women in recovery. Please note that we only accept female applicants due to service's circumstance. Depaul is a values-led organisation working with a number of services throughout Dublin. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team that is focused on the organisation’s development going forward.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• To ensure the practical needs of our services users are met i.e. Supporting independent living skills, cooking, cleaning, laundry, budgeting, meaningful use of time and self-care while ensuring a safe and secure environment in a high threshold service.
• To assess the needs of service users and to refer them to appropriate agencies.
• To provide key working to a number of residents, recording this work, advocating for them and updating line manager and the team on progress.
• To liaise with external agencies, recovery day programs, health boards and county councils.
• To ensure all quality assurance policies and procedures are adhered to too.
• To be a team player taking a role in handovers, supervising Relief Workers, Volunteers and supporting your team members in ensuring all decision making is consistent.
• To participate in supervision with your line manager and annual appraisals and identifying your own professional development within your role.
• To ensure all Depaul Policies and Procedures are adhered to particularly Health and Safety, professional boundaries, code of Conduct and Confidentiality.
• To at all times undertake your role in a professional manner maintaining a high quality standard of work in line with Depaul Values and ethos.

The above list is not exhaustive; additional areas of responsibility both in relation to tasks and direct reports may be added over time.

Person Requirements

• 2 year’s paid experience working in a drug free/ recovery model setting (residential setting, desirable) Must have experience of care planning and keyworking and be in a position to evidence this.
• A solid understanding of the recovery models such as 12 steps.
• Must have Recovery Coaching qualification and experience
• Good working knowledge of risk assessment processes and systems (i.e. S/U Risk assessment, Lone Working, Activity Risk Assessments)
• Process an understanding of harm reduction and low threshold working
• Process an understanding of why people become homeless and the issues they present with, understanding what supports can be offered in homeless services to service users with complex support needs
• Have experience working with needs assessment, key-working and support planning for people in recovery from various addictions.
• Have a knowledge of the statutory and voluntary sector resources available to homeless people ∙ Understand the importance for Health and Safety in a residential setting.
• Be a good communicator and computer literate
• Knowledge and understanding of Depaul vision mission and values.
• Proficient use of IT required in role, including email in a professional capacity
• An understanding of, and respect for the values and beliefs of Depaul

While the line manager is specified above, this does not preclude higher level grades from directing or reviewing work or setting dotted line collaborative working relationships between same or different the level positions.

All tasks should be completed in an accurate manner and supported by a clear electronic and hard copy filing system.

WHY WORK FOR US?

Depaul is a cross border charity supporting some of the most marginalised individuals, couples and families experiencing homelessness. Our mission is to end homelessness and change the lives of those affected by it. Would you like to help us to meet our mission?

We are a values led organisation and aim, at all times, to live and breathe these values in our everyday work. Our values are based on four key principles:

• We celebrate the potential of people
• We put our words into action
• We aim to take a wider role in civil society
• We believe in rights and responsibilities

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES:

Depaul strives to create a diverse and inclusive programme and is committed to ensuring equality of access to our opportunities and equality of treatment for our staff in all our policies and practices. We welcome applications from individuals aged 18 and over from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Our Benefits

• Annual Leave Up to 3 years' service: 25 days per year
• 3 years' up to 5 years' service: 27 days per year
• Over 5 years' service: 30 working days per year (Exclusive of bank and statutory holidays)
• 10 public holidays each year with Good Friday as discretionary day.
• Day off and day pay for Christmas Day, St.Stephen's Day, and New Year's Day worked for shift workers.
• Non-Shift Workers: Paid day off on public holidays.
• Shift Workers: Expected to work on public holidays; receive an additional day of annual leave in lieu.
• Non-Rostered Employees: May be entitled to one-fifth of the normal weekly rate of remuneration for the public holiday.
• Pension Matched by the employer
• Health Assistance Each staff member gets access to a health cash plan so youcan claim money back, up to set limits, on a number of treatments. This includes dental, optical, acupuncture and many more. Your children under 16 are also included on the plan.
• Life Assurance Four times salary
• Maternity /Adoptive Leave 18 weeks full pay
• Paternity Leave 2 weeks full pay
• Sick Leave Entitlement to sick pay starting from day 1 with level of entitlement increasing with length of service (subject to policy terms)
• Employee Assistance Program EAP is a confidential counselling service that provides support to company employees and their family. It is available 24/7,365 days a year covering; Counselling, legal advice, financial information, career guidance, life coaching, mediation, health information, cancer support, autism support, infertility and pregnancy loss, elder care support, parent coaching and international employee support.
• Learning and Development Depaul’s Vision, Mission and Values course, this involves travel to meet the Depaul International family.
• Emerging Leaders, supporting workers that would like to develop their leadership skills and to progress to a management role.
• Online learning resources within Depaul’s award nominated online learning platform, Moodle. Mandatory training including, MAPA, Health and Safety, Child Protection, Fire Safety, and First Aid