Case Worker - Dublin
2 vacancies in Teach Rua & Moore Haven
Full time – 35 Hours, working across a 7-day week rota
Fixed Term 12 Month Contract - 12 Month FTC with a view to Permanency
Salary: €39,090.33 per annum
Location: Dublin
1. 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.
2. Responsibilities:
- 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
- Key-working: Carrying out needs assessment for rehabilitation and goal setting
- 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.
The above list is not exhaustive; additional areas of responsibility both in relation to tasks and direct reports may be added over time.
3. Person Requirements:
- 2 year’s paid experience working with service users with enduring major mental health problems, learning disabilities and/ or offending histories. (essential)
- Social Studies /Case Management Accredited Qualification (essential)
- Experience in key-working 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)
WHY WORK FOR US?
Depaul is a cross border charity supporting some of the most marginalised individuals, couples and families experiencing homelessness. Our mission is to end homelessness and change the lives of those affected by it. Would you like to help us to meet our mission?
We are a values led organisation and aim, at all times, to live and breathe these values in our everyday work. Our values are based on four key principles:
• We celebrate the potential of people
• We put our words into action
• We aim to take a wider role in civil society
• We believe in rights and responsibilities If you choose to work for Depaul we offer:
Our Benefits
- Annual Leave Up to 3 years' service: 25 days per year
- 3 years' up to 5 years' service: 27 days per year
- Over 5 years' service: 30 working days per year (Exclusive of bank and statutory holidays)
- 10 public holidays each year with Good Friday as discretionary day.
- Day off and day pay for Christmas Day, St.Stephen's Day, and New Year's Day worked for shift workers.
- Non-Shift Workers: Paid day off on public holidays.
- Shift Workers: Expected to work on public holidays; receive an additional day of annual leave in lieu.
- Non-Rostered Employees: May be entitled to one-fifth of the normal weekly rate of remuneration for the public holiday.
- Pension Matched by the employer
- Health Assistance Each staff member gets access to a health cash plan so you can claim money back, up to set limits, on a number of treatments. This includes dental, optical, acupuncture and many more. Your children under 16 are also included on the plan.
- Life Assurance Four times salary
- Maternity /Adoptive Leave 18 weeks full pay
- Paternity Leave 2 weeks full pay
- Sick Leave Entitlement to sick pay starting from day 1 with level of entitlement increasing with length of service (subject to policy terms)
- Employee Assistance Program EAP is a confidential counselling service that provides support to company employees and their family. It is available 24/7, 365 days a year covering; Counselling, legal advice, financial information, career guidance, life coaching, mediation, health information, cancer support, autism support, infertility and pregnancy loss, elder care support, parent coaching and international employee support.
- Learning and Development Depaul’s Vision, Mission and Values course, this involves travel to meet the Depaul International family.
- Emerging Leaders, supporting workers that would like to develop their leadership skills and to progress to a management role.
- Online learning resources within Depaul’s award nominated online learning platform, Moodle. Mandatory training including, MAPA, Health and Safety,
- Child Protection, Fire Safety, and First Aid
- Hybrid/Flexible working DePaul support and embrace Flexible Working, including hybrid working and working from home, in line with the DePaul Working Policy (where appropriate and subject to role requirements and location)
