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Join Extern’s multi-disciplinary team and support our community’s most vulnerable members. We have flexible Relief Work roles available across our homelessness, addiction, and refugee services. We’re hiring now in Belfast, Mid Ulster, and the South-Eastern area.

About the role

Our Multi-Disciplinary Homeless Support Team offers a rewarding environment where innovative practice and professional development aren't just encouraged - they’re essential.

We don’t wait for people to come to us. Through assertive outreach, we reach the "seldom heard"—those who often fall through the cracks of traditional services. Our approach is simple: high tolerance and low barriers. By leading with harm reduction and empathy, we build trust with people who have often been let down by the system.

If you’re a Social Worker who values innovation and wants to drive real change in the Belfast community, we’d love to have you with us.

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At the heart of the Janus Project, our goal is simple but vital: keeping families together. Since the best place for a young person is usually at home, we step in to provide the stability and support needed to prevent them from entering the care system—or to help them transition back home safely.

As a Janus Keyworker, you are the steady hand during a family’s toughest moments. You’ll work directly with young people and their families to break down barriers and build a better quality of life. Whether it’s offering emotional support, navigating a crisis, or helping a young person find their path into training and employment, you are there to make progress possible.

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Extern delivers the Southside Youth Initiative, a Youth Diversion Project (YDP) in Southside Limerick City supporting young people at risk of, or involved in, anti-social or offending behaviour.

We provide early, community-based intervention to help young people build confidence, develop life skills, and make positive choices that improve their long-term education, employment, and life chances.

Our Family Support Workers play a key role in strengthening outcomes by working directly with parents and caregivers. Through tailored, one-to-one support, they help build parenting skills, increase resilience, and improve family and community connections.

Working as part of a multi-agency team, Extern delivers flexible, creative interventions that respond to real needs and make a lasting difference.

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This Key Worker role provides intensive, trauma-informed support to women in the Southern area who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and experiencing substance use and mental health challenges.

You will build trusting relationships with seldom-heard women, supporting them to access housing and health services, improve stability, and develop safer coping strategies. A key part of the role is reducing harm and working collaboratively with partner agencies to deliver coordinated, person-centred support.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in women’s lives while demonstrating Extern’s values of compassion, respect, and commitment in every interaction.

About the role

Working closely with the Practice Development Team, you will help shape the learning experience across the organisation—ensuring staff have access to high-quality mandatory and optional training that makes a real difference in practice. From managing and developing our Learning Management System (LMS) to producing clear, insightful training reports and performance data, your work will directly influence how we plan, deliver, and improve learning.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys being highly organised, data-driven, and collaborative—while contributing to a culture of continuous learning and development that truly impacts people and services.