Healthcare Assistant - Oak House

Healthcare Assistant – Oak House Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent Working Hours: a 5-week rolling roster of night shifts, 37.5 hours a week, from Monday to Sunday availability, day shifts only. Location: Oak House in Dublin 7 Salary: 40,162 As a Healthcare Assistant, you’ll help to support clients in their daily needs. You will contribute to ensuring effective and consistent best-practice standards are followed in the Dublin Simon Community accommodation services. Specific Responsibilities: • Support the project/key workers and management in the implementation of operational and strategic goals; including following up on support plan actions, supporting the service user to achieve their goals. • Building professional relationships of trust with all service users and residents. Treating all service users and residents with dignity and respect. • Therapeutic and diversionary interventions providing emotional and motivational support, promoting positive mental health attitudes, self-esteem and self-respect. • Liaise with a range of service providers in the voluntary and public sectors (e.g. housing providers, health care professionals & social welfare). Establish and expand the services to meet physical and mental health needs. • Deliver the personal, professional, and social development programme. • Assistance in managing medication/health regimes, accessing primary and secondary healthcare, liaising with GP and Pharmacists, methadone providers, arranging doctor’s/healthcare appointments and accompanying them to appointments. • Process all incoming enquiries and referrals to accommodation of service users. • Support service users to liaise with landlords and facilitate when moving location. • Conduct harm reduction interventions; overdose prevention, stabilisation. • Completion of daily duties which may include assisting clients and supporting them around their mental and physical health, addiction issues, ensuring that physical needs such as bathing and washing clothing are carried out and general upkeep of building by cleaning. • Support the safe and healthy functioning of each building to ensure the safety of and the service users/residents in that building, procedures relating to fire safety, hazard management, building checks, sharps disposal, and management of challenging behaviour. • Managing complex and challenging behaviour and conflict management and ensuring residents adhere to accommodation agreements. • To carry out all administrative duties such as: managing petty cash, record keeping (electronic), record keeping (paper), filing, answering queries via phone. • Ensure consistent handovers, diary, incident reports, and follow-ups, in accordance with organisation policies. Hours: 37.5 hours per week Career level: Experienced [Non-Managerial] Closing date: 04 Jun 2026