Role
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide support to our organisation’s central services team in Dublin. Depaul is a values-led organisation working with a number of services throughout Dublin and Belfast. This role will report directly to the Local Management. This role is within a long term accommodation service working with service users who have been residents in supported accommodation after spending time in long-term hospital accommodation. The role will work with service users who have recently moved on to more independent living. The staff team work with a service user group who have stabilised their mental health issues and have moderate to good functioning skills and are working to re-integrate back into the community and combating institutionalisation as a result of long stay in psychiatric hospital services. This is an exciting opportunity to join a diverse team of talented individuals.

2. Key Areas of Responsibility
The core pillars of work for this service are:
Life Skills – Assessment and Practical Support – Building on existing life skills interventions to empower individuals in a more independent setting.
Relational Security Support – Managing risks relating to service
Supporting residents – To maintain positive Mental Health
Transition – Supporting individuals in their transition from Supported accommodation to long term community living

Other Key Areas:
Managing accommodation unit
Visiting Support to service users living independently in community
Interagency working with Partner agency
Engagement with statutory agencies (Local Authorities/CWO etc.)
Managing service related risks
Ensuring excellent health and safety standards are maintained
Reporting to team and partner agency
The above list is not exhaustive; additional areas of responsibility may be added over time and flexibility to cover for other staff roles is required from time to time.

3. Person Requirements
Formal qualifications are not required for this post (but a qualification in a social care field and/or mental health work would be desirable)
2 year’s paid experience working of working with service users with enduring major mental health problems, learning disabilities and/ or offending histories.
Experience of working in a Forensic Mental Health Service – desirable (short description please)
Experience of Life Skills work promoting residents to achieve independence is desirable for this role.
Experience of lone working or off-site working an advantage
An understanding of enduring mental health issues and the impact it has on the individual.
Good working knowledge of risk assessment processes and systems (i.e. S/U Risk assessment, Lone Working, Activity Risk Assessments)

Online Application Procedure:
Please apply through our online application process available on our website
ie.depaulcharity.org

For more information, please contact Human Resources:
Tel: 00 353 1 453 7111 or e-mail recruitmentroi@depaulcharity.net
Closing date for all applications: 11th August 2020 at 9am