Overview

Job Title: Wellbeing Practitioner
Contract: Fixed Term until September 2025
Reports To: Head of Service
Salary: Points 28-31, £26,669 - £29,450
Department: Homelessness Services
Locations: The post will cover accommodation projects in Armagh, Portadown and Belfast.
Hours of Work: 35 hours per week to include evening and weekend work. 

Job Purpose: The role will require the practitioner to engage with clients (individually and in groups) who have been identified through the Needs Assessment and Support Planning process as being in need of specialist support to manage their mental health and substance use. The Practitioner will employ an Integrative Approach dictated by the presenting issues and expressed wishes of the client.

There will also be a staff development aspect to the role where the practitioner will provide support, advice, training and guidance to project staff to assist them with management of clients on site who have dual issues.

Essential Criteria:

• Relevant degree or professional qualification e.g. Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Youth Work, Counselling.
• Minimum of 1 years’ experience of working with this client group.
• Evidence of having applied Psychosocial Interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Counselling, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), while working with clients with complex/multiple needs (specific examples of the setting, the client group and the actual interventions used).
• Full current driving license and access to a vehicle to ensure the duties of the post to be carried out in full.

Desirable Criteria:

• Evidence of mental health or substance use training.
• Evidence of working with young people aged 19-24 years old.

Why work for the Simon Community?
We offer an extensive benefit package, including:

• Pension Plan
• Employer funded Healthcare - Benenden Health and Health Shield (includes savings on gym memberships and retail outlets)
• Death in Service Benefit
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Compassionate Culture
• Occupational Sick Pay
• NISCC fees paid for (permanent staff)
• Free Access NI check
• Health & Wellbeing Initiatives
• Management Development Programmes
• Long Service Awards
• Blue Light Card Scheme.

To apply, please visit our website - https://simoncommunity.org/about/work-with-us