Depaul wishes to recruit to the following role: Case Worker Blessington Street Service, Dublin City Full time – 35 hours per week Temporary Maternity Leave Cover Contract Salary €34,293.42 per annum Role This role offers a fantastic opportunity to be a member of a multi-disciplined team using holistic approaches to support Depaul service users. Working within the principal of harm minimisation where residents receive a high degree of care, support and dignity, Depaul has a commitment to service user participation and to empowering residents to manage their own lives. This role works across a 7-day week rota, and commences with increased annual leave days and other added benefits.
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
- 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
- Ensuring all resident files are kept up to date.
- 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.
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 with service users with enduring major mental health problems, learning disabilities and/ or offending histories (essential)
- Experience in keyworking and support planning
- Experience and knowledge of interagency working.
- Experience of working in a Forensic Mental Health Service – desirable
- 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)