About Us: At Dublin Simon Community, we're dedicated to making home a reality.
We empower individuals to access and sustain housing through services like prevention, addiction treatment, emergency response, and targeted interventions, in collaboration with our partners.
If you share our values and want to make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for client-focused, friendly, and adaptable individuals to join our team.
We prioritise best practices in HR, including staff training, communication, and involvement in decision-making, to create a supportive and effective work environment.
About the job:
As a Support Worker in our treatment services (BBV/Detox) you will support clients as part of a team to ensure their safety and needs during stabilisation/Respite from alcohol or drugs.
Our facility provides 24-hour nursing care with individualised care plans for each client.
Medical support is available through visiting GPs (Monday to Friday), and clients are stabilised on prescribed medication with nursing assistance for withdrawal management and substance use reduction.
Clients receive support to re-engage with Infectious Disease Clinics and access treatments like Hepatitis C therapy.
Blood Borne Virus (BBV) support includes health education and one-on-one nursing care.
On-site counselling is also available.
Daily group sessions cover substance misuse, harm reduction, medication management, HIV/Hepatitis C awareness, sexual health, and personal development.
Each client has a key worker to assist with external services, including housing, legal aid, benefits, resettlement, and child protection where necessary.
Clients receive mental health, family, and addiction support, with referrals to addiction treatment centres, mental health services, residential detox and recovery programmes, stabilisation services, and aftercare programmes.
The service takes a holistic approach, ensuring medical, psychological, and social well-being for long-term recovery.
Location:
Usher's Island, Dublin 8
Working Hours:
37,5 hours per week.
12 1/2 hour shifts 8pm- 8.30am (nights) or 8 am- 8.30pm (days)
Four week rolling rota with approx.
7 nights and 5 days per month.
Salary:
Depending on Experience from 33,500
Core Job Requirements:
To process referrals, admissions and discharges to the BBV UNIT as per referral and assessment procedure.
To induct clients to the unit as per induction procedure
To work in line with your individual score card to achieve the organisational strategy.
To engage with and build a professional trusting relationship with clients treating them with dignity and respect in order to work within the values of Dublin Simon Community.
Work closely with Project Worker & Nursing Staff to contribute to supporting service users to work towards the goals set down in their care plan.
To assist Project Workers with the co-facilitation of all meaningful activity and social programmes including the "Reduce the Use programme".
Co ordinate social activities for clients taking into account their individual needs and in conjunction with staff on duty.
To perform tasks related to the day to day running and maintenance of an effective residential service such as food preparation, hygiene of the home, standards of living, maintaining of building.
To ensure that a welcoming and friendly environment is maintained ensuring all rooms are prepared for service user arrival.
Assist the project worker / nurses with regular room searches to ensure unit is kept, drug and alcohol free.
To escort clients to medical and other appointments as requested by the lead nurse& or project worker.
Maintain positive and mutually beneficial relationships with relevant external agencies in both the voluntary and statutory sector and to effectively liaise with a range of service providers both Voluntary and Statutory (referrals, mental health, occupational therapy and so on) in order to establish or improve services available to service users.
Ensure service users are consulted and involved in the operation of the project as far as possible through the service users groups in Dublin Simon Community.
Essential for the role:
2 years paid employment in a relevant care setting with at least one-year experience in direct homelessness and addiction service provision.
Diploma level in one of the following disciplines: social work, social care, psychology, addiction studies, counselling.
An in-depth Knowledge of substance, behavioural and non substance Addictions
Understanding of mental health and domestic violence issues.
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community:
Annual leave 187,5h Pro rata
5% matched contribution to your pension
Paid Sick Leave Policy
Paid Maternity Leave Policy
Bike to Work Scheme
Commuter Travel Tax Savers Ticket
1st-week Comprehensive Training
Progression Opportunities
Shortlisting will be in progress throughout the period that the vacancy is live, so you may be called for interview and/or the vacancy may be filled before the closing date.
Please note: If you are unsure of any of the requirements, please contact the Recruitment Team at Shortlisting will continue throughout the recruitment process.
Dublin Simon Community is an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.