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 service which is an accommodation-based step down unit for service users who have been residents in a long-term hospital accommodation and who are now preparing to move 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 combatting 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
Life Skills – Assessment and Practical Support – Empowering residents to reach their own maximum potential
Relational Security Support – Managing risks relating to service
Supporting residents – To maintain positive Mental Health
Transition – From hospital service to community living

Other Key Areas:
Managing accommodation unit x 2
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 in Mental Health Services or in Criminal Justice Sector, desirably in a residential setting. Ideally experience 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 issue and the impact it has on the individual
Commitment to the therapeutic use of security – Balancing use of minimal restrictions and intrusions with risk management of individuals in a community security
Good working knowledge of risk assessment processes and systems (i.e. S/U Risk assessment, Lone Working, Activity Risk Assessments)
Skilled at life skills assessment and developing appropriate, empowering life skills programs.

Online Application Procedure:
Please apply through our on line 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: 28th May 2020 at 9am