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Job Description
SAOL Project Head of Services
The Head of Services at the SAOL Project is a key leadership role, responsible for ensuring the effective delivery, strategic development, and continuous improvement of this specialised, feminist-informed addiction rehabilitation day service for women in Dublin. This post combines hands‑on clinical and psychosocial work with senior management, strategic governance, policy advocacy, financial oversight, and Board engagement responsibilities.
Direct Service Delivery and Leadership:
Lead the therapeutic team in delivering trauma-informed, feminist, and evidence-based group work and one-to-one key working sessions with women experiencing addiction and multiple marginalisations, acting as a model and mentor for frontline staff.
Supervise/strategically lead psycho‑educational, relapse prevention, and recovery oriented groups, ensuring all activities are aligned with best practice and client‑centred care principles.
Oversee intake, assessment, and support planning for new participants, ensuring rapid access and minimising barriers for women seeking help.
Supervise case reviews, risk assessments, safeguarding protocols, and care coordination, with particular responsiveness to domestic violence, homelessness and child protection contexts.
Service Development, Quality, and Advocacy:
Develop (with the CEO and then) implement, and monitor service delivery models in response to the evolving needs of women who use drugs, utilising ongoing feedback from our participants as well as community stakeholders.
Lead the design and delivery of innovative, creative interventions, adapting the feminist, holistic ethos of the SAOL Project to meet the realities of intersecting inequalities faced by women.
Champion advocacy and rights-based practice across the organisation, ensuring all service provision maintains a commitment to empowering, dignity and inclusion of the women who attend SAOL.
Governance and Strategic Policy:
Collaborate actively with the CEO and voluntary Board of Management (BoM), attending all Board meetings, reporting on service development, operational challenges, and strategic priorities; contribute to shaping and implementing strategic plans and policies.
Ensure compliance with all internal and external governance requirements, including legal, regulatory, safeguarding, and best practice standards within addiction services.
Work alongside the CEO and Board members in policy development, organisational learning, and responding to sectoral changes, representing the Project in national forums, strategic committees, and advocacy events, as appropriate.
Foster and maintain strong relationships with external partners, statutory and voluntary agencies, and funders, securing resources and collaborating to advance women’s recovery and well‑being.
Financial Management:
With the CEO, administration team, accountants and Board Treasurer, oversee budgeting, financial planning, and management.
This vacancy is suitable for Remote/Blended working
Sector: human health and social work activities
Career Level
Professional
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