Project Worker

Project Worker – 12 Month FTC with a view to Permanency

Dublin Services

Multiple Vacancies

Full time 35 hours per week – 5/7 days including weekends (day & evening shift)

Salary: €37,109.46 per annum

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide support to our organisation's central services in Dublin. Depaul is a values-led organisation working with a number of services throughout Dublin. This role will report directly to the local management team. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team that is focused on the organisation's development going forward.

• To ensure the practical needs of our services users are met i.e. providing food, laundry, clean bedding etc., while ensuring a safe and secure environment in a high standard service.
• To assess the needs of service users and to refer them to appropriate agencies.
• To provide key working to a number of residents, recording this work, advocating for them and updating line manager and the team on progress.
• To liaison with external agencies, health boards and county councils.
• To ensure all quality assurance policies and procedures are adhered to.
• To assist the medical and nursing staff with the health care of service users.
• To be a team player taking a role in handovers, supervising volunteers and supporting your team members in ensuring all decision making is consistent.
• To participate in supervision with your line manager and annual appraisals and identifying your own professional development within your role.
• To ensure all Depaul policies and procedures are adhered to, particularly Health and Safety, Code of Conduct and Confidentiality.
• To at all times undertake your role in a professional manner maintaining a high quality standard of work in line with Depaul values and ethos.

The above list is not exhaustive; additional areas of responsibility both in relation to tasks and direct reports may be added over time.

• Two years' paid experience working in a social care field, desirably in a residential setting (essential).
• Social Care Accredited Qualification, or CORU registered/eligible to work towards CORU registration.
• Good working knowledge of risk assessment processes and systems (e.g., service/user risk assessment, lone working, activity risk assessments).
• Understanding of harm reduction and low threshold working.
• Understanding of why people become homeless and the issues they present with, and what supports can be offered in homeless services to people with complex needs.
• Experience with needs assessment, key-working and support planning for people with complex needs; knowledge of statutory and voluntary sector resources available to homeless people; understanding of health and safety in a residential setting.
• Good communication skills and computer literacy.
• Knowledge and understanding of Depaul's vision, mission and values.
• Proficient use of IT, including professional email use.
• An understanding of, and respect for, the values and beliefs of Depaul.

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.

We are a values-led organisation and aim 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:

• Annual leave: 25 days per year after up to 3 years' service; 27 days per year after 3–5 years; 30 days per year after more than 5 years (exclusive of bank and statutory holidays). 10 public holidays each year with Good Friday discretionary.
• 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: 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 public holidays.
• Pension matched by the employer
• Health assistance: Health cash plan covering treatments (including dental, optical, acupuncture) and eligible dependants under 16.
• 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 entitlement increasing with length of service (subject to policy terms)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential counselling and support services 24/7, including counselling, legal advice, financial information, career guidance, life coaching, and more.
• Learning and development: Depaul's Vision, Mission and Values course, Emerging Leaders program, and access to Moodle online learning resources; mandatory training including MAPA, Health and Safety, Child Protection, Fire Safety and First Aid.
• Hybrid/flexible working: Flexible working, including hybrid working and working from home where appropriate and in line with the DePaul Working Policy (subject to role requirements and location).