Staff Nurse Respite

Enable Ireland provides services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities and their families from 43 locations in 14 counties. Covering childhood to adulthood our expert teams work with the individual and their family on a plan for each life stage. Our services for children and their families cover all aspects of a child's physical, educational, and social development from early infancy through adolescence. For adults we offer a range of services covering personal development, independent living, and more.

Enable Ireland, as an equal opportunities employer, proudly maintains a Silver Award in Diversity from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We vigorously advocate for fairness, respect, equality, diversity, inclusion, and engagement, and are dedicated to ongoing enhancement in these areas.

We are currently seeking a highly-motivated Staff Nurse to join our team in the Carlow/Kilkenny Respite service based in both Carlow and Kilkenny.

Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary Scale: €37,060 to €54,111 pro rata per annum.
Salary scales are subject to LSI's (Long Service Increments)

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata per annum

This pay scale is subject to increases in 2026 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations.

Overview of the Post

The purpose of the role is to work as a member of the team providing respite and home support services, in all Enable Ireland locations across Carlow and Kilkenny. The post involves working with children and young people through a person centred approach, meeting their identified needs during their stay in active partnership and in line with the wants of each child and family. This post will involve weekday and weekend work, sleep overs and night duty.

Responsibilities

• Create an environment that promotes each child's participation in terms of choice and decision making and in which each child is enabled to reach their highest level of independence.
• Display a skilled approach to clinical and therapeutic interventions to provide care across various states of health and wellbeing and promote wellness.
• Work within scope of practice, building on professional development throughout employment.
• Be a lead clinician in assigned, allocated clinical areas of responsibility and carry a clinical caseload appropriate to the post.
• Coordinate, assess, plan, implement and review care for children according to service standards including TUSLA and HIQA regulations.
• Ensure implementation of agreed programmes of care for each child are met in ways that promote dignity and respect.
• Identify and understand the health and medical needs of each child and ensure those needs are met appropriately.
• Work with individual children in a range of settings, taking the lead in ensuring their safety.
• Provide leadership, support and mentorship to all support staff in the provision of clinical and care support services across multiple locations.
• Take responsibility for line management and clinical supervision of staff and students within the team/service as required.
• Act as facilitator in partnership with parents/carers/team to foster links with the child's future educators.
• Identify training needs and deliver training to non nursing staff as required.
• Ensure care and hygiene of treatment rooms, bathroom and toileting facilities meet the highest standards.
• Plan and manage bus routes and time schedules and act as bus escort in the transportation of children to and from home as required.
• Display appropriate sensitivity while working closely with families and service users.
• Work in accordance with Enable Ireland's Code of Practice and other national policies and procedures.
• In consultation with the inter/multidisciplinary team, be responsible for design, implementation and evaluation of the programme of activity for each child.
• Liaise with and organise paediatric clinics as appropriate.
• Liaise with health care professionals.
• Ensure equipment, toys and furniture are maintained in good order.
• Overall responsibility for children's clothing and equipment, ensuring they go home in good condition.

Qualifications

• A recognised validated university degree or an equivalent qualification in intellectual disability nursing or children's nursing.
• Must be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).
• Current eligibility to work in the state.
• Full manual driving licence for within the state/jurisdiction with access to own transport.
• Experience of working with children with disability.
• Maintain live annual registration with the NMBI at appointment.
• Confirm annual registration with the NMBI to Enable Ireland.
• Commit to working in partnership with parents/carers and children in a family centred manner.
• Good knowledge of child protection and child development.
• Demonstrate understanding of residential respite and day services.
• Understand HIQA standards.
• Experience of working with teenagers with behaviours that challenge.
• Experience of inter /transdisciplinary working.
• Maintain a disciplined and professional level of performance under sustained or situational pressure.
• Demonstrate ability to arrange and schedule activities.
• Be able to work effectively as a team member without daily supervision and be self motivating.
• Willingness to embrace service development and change.

Benefits

• Excellent internal and external training opportunities
• Generous annual leave entitlements
• Long service reward scheme
• Pay adjusted maternity leave
• Pay adjusted adoptive leave
• Pay adjusted paternity leave

Enable Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.