Ruhama are recruiting for a Seeking Safety Ireland Manager to help lead the project.
Address: 4 Castle Street, Dublin 2 Post
Title: SEEKING SAFETY IRELAND MANAGER
Accountable to: The Head of Services of the Host organisation and the Governance Group.
Purpose of post: To work with and support the partner agencies to develop and carry out the aims, objectives and actions of the Seeking Safety Ireland Strategic Plan.
Background: Seeking Safety Ireland is a peer-informed project supported by the Department of Health through its Women’s Health Fund in 2022. The commitment is to develop and implement a cross-sectoral, interagency Irish adaptation of the Seeking Safety model to support hard-to-reach women who experience both mental health and substance use issues, particularly those experiencing domestic and sexual gender-based violence. Research has shown that co-production, co-delivery, and a fully integrated approach are the most beneficial ways to support individuals in our services.
The focus of the Seeking Safety programme is to work with women with dual diagnosis to teach them, through psycho-educational classes, how to successfully seek safety in their world.
This programme seeks to support recovery, which includes stabilising substance and/or alcohol use, reducing suicidality, self-harm, and the development of dangerous relationships. Using an integration of cognitive, behavioural, interpersonal, and case management approaches, it has a core goal of creating safety to prepare women for the next stages of healing.
Seeking Safety works from the premise that individuals with dual diagnoses of PTSD and Substance Use are more likely to engage in unsafe drug and alcohol activities and veer towards poly-drug use. They generally experience a variety of life problems and have an enduring relationship with both diagnoses. Additionally, they are unlikely to have the life skills to create the safety they need for the impacts of PTSD to reduce and the need for the painkilling task of substance use to decline.
Manager Seeking Safety Ireland: The Manager for Seeking Safety Ireland (SSI) will have the responsibility to support SSI on a national basis. They will implement the SSI strategic plan with the support of the Programme Manager for Dual Diagnosis and each of the SSI Governance Group members. They will encourage consistency across partner organisations in areas such as strategic development, staff support, training, and supervision, as well as supporting the partner organisations with the implementation of the actions identified in the strategic plan.
The successful candidate will also be involved in communication and promotion of Seeking Safety Ireland. They will be required to regularly visit and connect with individual organisations onsite and work with the Programme Manager for Dual Diagnosis (PMDD) on a weekly basis. These meetings are designed to ensure the national agenda is supported and will be in place for a defined period, as per the Strategic Plan.
The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the implementation of the strategic goals of the programme. They will have an administrative base in the host organisation.
Closing date: 17:00 on Friday 29th November 2024.
Interviews will take place the week commencing the 9th of December 2024; shortlisting may apply.
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