SOLACE CAFÉ CLINICAL SERVICE COORDINATOR - CRISIS RESOLUTION SERVICES
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 Feb **Apply on the
website**, 5pm
PROPOSED INTERVIEW DATE (S): Week commencing Monday **Apply on the
website**th February *
LOCATION OF POST: Monkstown, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
INFORMAL ENQUIRIES: *
DETAILS OF SERVICE
Crisis Cafés / Solace 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 wellbeing
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 support 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.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIP
The post holders will report directly to the Solace Café Operations
Manager.
PURPOSE OF THE POST
This is a role for a healthcare professional. The two Solace Café
Clinical Service Coordinators will support the Solace Café Operations
Manager with the planning and operational functions of the Café and
providing oversight on the day-to-day operation of the crisis café
and the provision of quality crisis support services. The Solace Café
Service Coordinators will provide leadership on shifts across the
service and will supervise designated café support staff and
volunteers. The Solace Café Clinical Service Coordinators will work
alongside peer support staff and volunteers to ensure services are of
the highest quality and support the continued growth and development
of the service.
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Health
