Children's Disability Network Manager in Dublin

About the Role

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, supported employment, social and leisure activities. The demand for our services continues to increase throughout Ireland. We have set ourselves the challenging goal of meeting these needs by providing a full range of high quality services, and expanding into local communities.

Enable Ireland is an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of children and adults with disabilities in Ireland, and is named as one of Ireland's Irish Independent 150 Best Employers 2025.

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 Children’s Disability Network Manager to join our teams.

This is a Specified Purpose, full time post (covering a period of special leave) in Leopardstown, Co. Dublin. The Children’s Disability Network Manager will be employed by either the HSE or a Section 38 funded agency and seconded to Enable Ireland).

Contract Hours: 35 hours per week.

Salary Scale: €90,977 - €100,131 pro rata per annum.

Annual Leave Entitlement: 30 days per annum.

The Children’s Disability Network Manager (CDNM) is responsible to the Lead Agency (in this case, Enable Ireland) for the development of Children’s Disability Services within the designated area, in line with National Policy. The CDNM is the accountable and responsible person for ensuring the delivery of high quality, safe, integrated children’s disability services to the population of the assigned Community Healthcare Network. This will be provided in accordance with legislative and service delivery frameworks and requirements, within the resources allocated.

Using the key principles of the Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People programme as a model of service which is based on family-centred practice and interdisciplinary team working, the CDNM will have full responsibility and accountability for managing resources including all the children’s disability staff within the Children’s Disability Network.

The CDNM will provide day to day operational line management for children’s disability staff and provide clinical assurance regarding the professional supervision of each clinician working in that team. The CDNM will be supported in this regard by an agreed evidence-based clinical governance structure within the Lead Agency or Community Healthcare Organisation.

Requirements

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties.

The successful candidate will have:

• Have a relevant professional qualification in Nursing or a Health and Social Care profession and where appropriate, have statutory registration or professional registration / accreditation.
• Have a minimum of five years post qualification work experience including three years working in or managing the delivery of children’s disability therapeutic services.
• Have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and management ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
• Be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.
• Be of good character.
• Have access to appropriate transport to fulfil the requirements of the role as the post will involve travel.

Details

Location: Dublin

Contract Type: Full-time, Temporary

Salary: €90,076–€99,140 per year

Closing Date: 31 Jul 2026

How to Apply

To apply, please download the Job Description and Person Specification for your information and complete the online application form. CVs will not be accepted.

Please note: Candidates who have applied for this position within the last 12 months need not reapply.