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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• NFQ level 7 qualification in a relevant field and 6 months relevant experienceOrNFQ level 6 qualification in a relevant field and 1year relevant experienceOrNFQ Level 5 qualification in health, community or social care and 2 years relevant experience, including experience in a residential setting.

SKILLS & PERSONALITY REQUIREMENTS:

• A Passion for helping people
• Flexibility to work in an agile environment
• Willingness to learn
• Experience in carrying out Health & Safety inspections and audits
• Core Competencies of all Dublin Simon Staff:
• Commitment to providing the highest levels of quality service
• Relating with respect and compassion
• Promoting diversity and equality
• Providing quality person-centered service
• Communicating effectively
• Resilience, positive outlook openness to change
• Maintaining a safe and secure environment
• Promoting health and wellbeing
• Promoting person-centered care
• Building working relationshipsEffective professional practice, planning, organising, and problem-solving.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Step Up step Down- Intermediate Care Centre is a residential unit operated by Dublin Simon Community and Safetynet Primary Care with support from key collaborators including Housing First, HSE ACCESS Mental Health, Inclusion Health teams at St James’s Hospital and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin. The service is funded and supported by HSE Social Inclusion and the Department of Health.
The purpose of the unit in Dublin city centre is to provide short term semi acute healthcare (medical and nursing) interventions, treatment, investigations, observations for people without homes and who fit the below eligibility criteria.
Contract Type – Full time
Working Hours –37.5 hours per week. Location - Dublin City.
Salary: depending on experience from 33,500 moving to 38,250

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To process referrals, admissions, and discharges to the SUSD as per referral and assessment procedure.
• To induct clients to the unit as per induction procedure
• To work in line with your individual scorecard 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”.
• Coordinate 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 the 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 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.