About the role:
Contract Type – Full Time Permanent.
Working Hours – a 5 week rolling roster of night shifts, 37.5 hours a week, from Monday to Sunday availability.
Location – Dublin.
As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll help to meet client needs on a nightly basis; you will provide in-the-moment support and safety to clients. You will contribute to ensuring effective and consistent best-practice standards are followed in the Dublin Simon Community long-term accommodation services.
Health Care Assistant role is an opportunity to gain frontline experience and many support workers graduate on to project worker roles within the organisation. As well as our induction program, you will be provided with 10 training days throughout the year, as well as on-the-job coaching and mentoring, ensuring you have the support and training to succeed in this role.
Your responsibilities
Support the project/key workers and management in the implementation of operational and strategic goals; including following up on support plan actions, supporting the service user to achieve their goals.
Building professional relationships of trust with all service users and residents. Treating all service users and residents with dignity and respect.
Conduct harm reduction interventions; overdose prevention, stabilisation.
Completion of daily duties which may include assisting clients and supporting them around their mental and physical health, addiction issues, ensuring that physical needs such as bathing and washing clothing are carried out and general upkeep of building by cleaning.
Support the safe and healthy functioning of each building to ensure the safety of and the service users/residents in that building, procedures relating to fire safety, hazard management, building checks, sharps disposal, and management of challenging behaviour.
Managing complex and challenging behaviour and conflict management and ensuring residents adhere to accommodation agreements.
To carry out all administrative duties such as: managing petty cash, record keeping (electronic), record keeping (paper), filing, answering queries via phone.
Ensure consistent handovers, diary, incident reports, and follow-ups, in accordance with organisation policies.
Ensure services and projects are compliant with organisational policies, procedures, and guidelines in the following areas: Fire Safety, Confidentiality, Child Protection, Data Protection, Admissions, Case Management, and Disengagement, etc.
Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by your line manager.
Essential for the role:
Level 6, 7 or 8 in a relevant field with 6 months experience in similar setting (including voluntary work and college placement)
Or
FETAC/QQI Level 5 qualification in Healthcare Support and minimum of 12 months field experience relevant with in similar setting (including voluntary work and college placement).
A Passion for helping people.
Flexibility to work in an agile environment.
Willingness to learn.
Experience in carrying out Health & Safety inspections and audits.
Benefits to working with Dublin Simon Community:
25 days annual leave.
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.
Please note, if you are unsure of any of the requirements, contact the Recruitment Team on (01) 6354860
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