Limerick Mental Health Association is currently recruiting for a number of positions for our new Solace Café.
Closing Date for All Applications: 6 pm on the 24th November 2024
Proposed Interview Date (s): 25th-29th November 2024
Informal Enquiries: info@limerickmentalhealth.ie
Positions Available:
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About the Solace Café
Solace Cafés provide an out-of-hours friendly and supportive community crisis prevention and crisis response service in the evenings and at weekends in a café style/non-clinical safe environment. 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 well-being.
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 rota basis. Those who attend will be signposted to relevant mental health and well-being services and community support as required.
Aim:
To provide an out-of-hours, friendly and supportive community-based adult crisis prevention and crisis response service, often in the evening and at weekends in a café style/non-clinical safe environment through social, peer support, crisis intervention support and recovery-based supports and services.
Objectives
- To increase early access to help for people experiencing mental health difficulty, mental health distress or are experiencing a crisis by providing clear support and effective signposting to services provided by the HSE and other third sector and statutory providers.
- 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 well-being of people using the service.
- To support individuals, their families, carers and supporters to prevent, reduce and de-escalate any immediate crisis and to provide ongoing management and build resilience for the service user, family/carer.
Solace Café is delivered in Limerick by Limerick Mental Health Association and funded by the HSE.
