Healthcare Assistant - Usher's Island

About the Job: At Usher’s Island, we provide a broad spectrum of homeless-specific health and addiction treatment services. As a Health Care Assistant in our Clinical Services you will support clients as part of a team to ensure their safety during their stay. Working Hours: 37.5 hours, 7-day liability Location: Usher’s Island, Dublin 8 Salary: 35,878.58 Core Job Requirements: • To process referrals, admissions and discharges as per referral and assessment procedure according to the unit you’re working in. • To work in line with your individual score card to achieve the organisational strategy. • To engage with and build a professional trusting relationship with clients treating them with dignity and respect in order to work within the values of Dublin Simon Community. • Work closely with Project Worker & Nursing Staff to contribute to supporting service users to work towards the goals set down in their care plan. • To assist Project Workers with the co-facilitation of all meaningful activity and social programmes. • Co ordinate social activities for clients, taking into account their individual needs and in conjunction with staff on duty. • To perform tasks related to the day to day running and maintenance of an effective residential service such as food preparation, hygiene of the home, standards of living, maintaining of building. • To ensure that a welcoming and friendly environment is maintained ensuring all rooms are prepared for service user arrival. • Assist the project worker / nurses with regular room searches to ensure units are kept, drug and alcohol free. • To escort clients to medical and other appointments as requested by the lead nurse& or project worker. • Maintain positive and mutually beneficial relationships with relevant external agencies in both the voluntary and statutory sector and to effectively liaise with a range of service providers both Voluntary and Statutory (referrals, mental health, occupational therapy and so on) in order to establish or improve services available to service users. • Ensure service users are consulted and involved in the operation of the project as far as possible through the service users groups in Dublin Simon Community. Hours: 37.5 hours per week Career level: Experienced [Non-Managerial] Closing date: 04 Jun 2026