Social Care Worker

The Role:

Social Care Workers fulfil a key worker supportive and advocative role for individuals supported by the service. The Social Care Worker role is to support the person in all aspects of their life focusing on the individual’s ability and promoting independence and development of skills at all times. The Social Care Worker will assist and support people who use the service with development of their individual person centred plans and the achievement of associated outcomes, and critically, will support people who use the service to make informed choices and fulfil their potential. They will encourage participation in the community through inclusive and creative thinking, seek opportunities for new experiences and encourage positive risk taking in leading to informed choices.

The successful candidate will provide leadership and supervision at a local level, ensuring the service delivered is person-centred.

Reporting/Responsible to:

Team Leader/Service Coordinator/Area Manager

Qualifications:

Candidates must hold one of the following qualifications:

• HETAC/DIT/NQAI BA in Applied Social Studies/Social Care.
• Open Training College (HETAC) accredited National Degree in Applied Social Studies (Disability).

and

• A full clean manual Driving Licence, which qualifies you to drive manual transmission vehicles on Irish Roads and use of your own car is an essential requirement. It may also be necessary for the appointee to obtain a Class D1 Driving Licence (if not already in possession of one). Assistance will be given towards this purpose of obtaining a class D1 licence.
• Fluency in verbal and written English is an essential requirement of this post.

Experience:

· Experience working with individuals with an intellectual disability and individuals with challenging behaviour is desirable. Full training will be provided.

· Experience in the area of goal setting and programme implementation through a person centred approach is also desirable.

· Working within a staff team and shift leading at times.

Skills:

Candidates must demonstrate:

· Leadership and networking skills - Staff will be expected to network with local community groups and develop positive links for the individuals who use the service.

· Excellent organisational and planning skills, with the ability to support goal setting, putting goals into action and following through to the achievement of outcomes

· The ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms and excellent report writing and record keeping skills

· Creativity, initiative and self-motivation

· Commitment to current best practice internationally and co-operating in an interdisciplinary team environment with a person-centred philosophy

· The ability to exercise good judgement, discretion and confidentiality

· Excellent listening skills, patience and a sense of humour

Working Hours:

Various Contracts -permanent, temporary or fixed term, full time, part time, Social Care Worker appointments

All posts are based on a 14-day duty roster. The successful candidates may be required to work to accommodate an integrated day service, with weekend work, some split duty hours, public holidays, evening/night duty and sleep-ins to meet service needs. The Brothers of Charity Services model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.

Annual Leave:

22 days per annum (pro-rata for part-time), i.e. 8.46 hours per 100 hours worked. Appropriate service related leave will be granted after 5 and 10 years’ service respectively.

Remuneration:

Department of Health salary scales apply: €36,945 x 11 increments - €51,743 per annum (pro-rata for part-time). A long service increment €52,720 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) is payable after 3 years on the maximum of the scale.
Additional payments will be made for weekends, public holidays and night duty when worked.

Salary quoted is based on a 39 hour working week. The successful candidate will be granted incremental credit subject to satisfactory verification of previous public sector service.

Tenure:

A panel may be formed as a result of this process from which subsequent permanent, temporary or fixed term Social Care Worker appointments within the Service location may be offered over the next 6 to 12 months.