SOLACE CAFÉ PEER CONNECTOR - CRISIS RESOLUTION SERVICES
JOB TITLE AND GRADE: Solace Café Peer Connector- Grade IV Management
& Administrative Scale
HOW TO APPLY:
PLEASE SEND AN UP-TO-DATE CV ALONG WITH A COVER LETTER OUTLINING YOUR
INTEREST AND SUITABILITY FOR THE POSITION TO **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
BEFORE 5PM, FRIDAY **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**TH FEBRUARY **APPLY ON THE
WEBSITE**.
CLOSING DATE: Friday *th February **Apply on
the website**pm
PROPOSED INTERVIEW DATE(S): Week commencing Monday **Apply on the
website**th February *
LOCATION OF POST: Monkstown, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
INFORMAL ENQUIRIES: *
DETAILS OF SERVICE
Community/Crisis Cafés provide an out-of-hours friendly and
supportive community crisis prevention and crisis response service
often in the evenings and at weekends in a café style/non-clinical
safe environment through social, peer support, crisis intervention and
recovery-based supports and services. The café service will support
individuals and their family members/carers to deal with an immediate
crisis and to plan safely drawing on their strengths, resilience, and
coping mechanisms to manage their mental health and wellbeing.
Attendees can access coping strategies, one to one peer support,
psychosocial and recovery supports provided by paid core staff,
assisted by a team of appropriately trained volunteers, working on a
pro-rata basis. Those who attend will be signposted to relevant mental
health and well-being services and community supports as required. The
Operations Manager will be able to directly refer the service user, if
needed and meeting core criteria to the Crisis Resolution Team (CRT),
who will provide a triage function to support an appropriate
intervention or referral pathway.
OBJECTIVES:
* To increase early access to help for people experiencing mental
health difficulty, mental health distress or are experiencing a crisis
by providing a clear supports and an effective pathway to services
provided by the HSE and other third sector and statutory providers.
* To provide an alternative care pathway for individuals in times of
mental health difficulty distress and crisis to support better
outcomes for the service user.
* To enable service users by supporting them to enhance their coping
mechanisms and provide them with management techniques to help reduce
the risk of or relapse of crisis.
* To offer a supportive, calm, safe and reassuring environment for
people experiencing or in recovery from a period of mental health
crisis that is responsive to the individual needs of people attending.
* To provide a responsive and tailored approach to support the
improvement of the mental health and wellbeing of people using the
service.
* To support individuals, their family, carers, and supporters to
prevent, reduce and de-escalate any immediate crisis and to provide
on-going management and build resilience for the service user,
family/carer.
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Health
