Job Details: COPE Galway: Family Services Manager


Irish Future
Talbot Street
Dublin 1
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COPE Galway: Family Services Manager


MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH COPE GALWAY?S HOMELESS SERVICES TEAM

OUR VALUES, OUR WORK, OUR PEOPLE

COPE GALWAY is a charity that has been providing social services in
Galway since the **Apply on the website**s. Our homeless services
offer people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness a range of
residential and non-residential supports. Our team works tirelessly to
find individualised creative solutions. Ours is a learning
organisation where we seek to innovate in line with evidence based
best practise. We embrace strengths based approaches, harm reduction,
trauma informed care and rights based service provision.

OUR VISION is a community where every person is valued, cared for, and
supported at every stage of life. We work to achieve this by providing
essential supports for people at challenging times in their lives, and
by advocating for systemic change to remove the root causes of
inequity and disadvantage that constrain the wellbeing and development
of individuals, families and communities.

OUR MISSION is to make a difference by empowering people, creating
change and strengthening communities. We understand, respect and
respond to the needs of our clients who are always at the forefront of
our work.

OUR TEAM is supported by regular support and supervision and access to
our Employee Assistance Programme. Our people receive a wide variety
of on-the-job training, with core training including Trauma Informed
Care, First Aid, MAPA (Management of Actual and Potential Aggression),
Overdose Response and Naloxone Administration and additional trainings
including Values Workshops, Diversity Workshops, Motivational
Interviewing and Harm Reduction Workshops.

BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEES include a pension scheme and a supplemental
training fund to which individuals can apply annually to assist them
in their studies and their continuous professional development.
Working on our front-line can act as a springboard for a range of
exciting career opportunities with COPE Galway both within our
homeless services and our wider organisation, including Domestic Abuse
Services, Older People?s Services and other organisational posts.

WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING A TALENTED, CLIENT-CENTRED MANAGER FOR THE
FOLLOWING POST:

FAMILY SERVICES MANAGER

The Manager leads and manages COPE Galway Services for families who
are homeless or at risk of homelessness focused on ensuring the
provision of a high quality service in line with NQSF (National
Quality Standards Framework for Homeless Services). They lead, support
and supervise the team to work to their fullest potential. They have a
role in mentoring and supporting their colleagues with an aim of
collaboratively embedding the values of COPE Galway and a trauma
informed approach within the service.

The work of the Service is encapsulated under the four headings of;

* PREVENTION ? early identification and intervention for families
at risk of becoming homeless
* EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT ? assessments and arranging
of appropriate emergency accommodation placement
* RESETTLEMENT ? supporting families to exit homelessness and
supporting them in taking up a tenancy and re-establishing a home
* TENANCY SUPPORT ? providing on-going support to families to
sustain their tenancies

APPLICATION FORMS, JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND PERSON SPECIFICATIONS are
available at:

We need : English (Good)

Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others

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