Children’s Residential Team Lead in Barefield

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 Bronze 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 Residential Team Lead to join our team in Hazeldene Children’s Residential Respite Hours, Barefield, Ennis, Co Clare. Contract Type: Full Time Permanent. Contract Hours: 39 Hours per week. Salary Scale: €54,441 to €63,978 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments). This pay scale is subject to increases in 2026 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations. Annual Leave Entitlement: 34 days pro rata per annum.

The Children’s Residential Team Lead will be responsible for leading a dedicated team in delivering quality standards of care and support to children with physical and sensory support needs, ID and Autism in a person centered service. This will involve working with and being supported by management in obtaining (where required) and maintaining registration with the Health Information and Quality Authority. The post holder will work with the RRM (PIC) to direct services including the assessment, planning, delivery, evaluation of care to children and in providing support on person centred positive behavioural approaches to staff on the needs of individuals with complex behaviours of concern.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

• Have a third level qualification in Social Care or relevant field
• Min 3 years post qualification experience working with people with Disabilities in a residential setting
• Evidence of management/staff supervisory experience
• Full clean drivers licence and have access to own transport
• Experience working with behaviours of concern
• Evidence of CPD
• Annual Registration: With a Social Care Qualification on appointment, practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU.

Desirable Criteria:

• Management course commenced or completed
• Experience in delivering training

Details

Location: Barefield, County Clare, Ireland. Closing date: 10 Aug 2026 3:00 PM. Fluent English required. The post will be subject to reference checks and may be subject to Garda vetting/police clearance, as relevant. Due to the large volume of applications, we are not in the position to provide individual feedback to applicants who are not shortlisted for interview. Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants from all sections of the community. The above information serves only as a guide to the advertised position. Enable Ireland, at its discretion, reserves the right to change this prior to appointment.

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. Informal Queries to by email to Maire McMahon PIC at mamcmahon@enableireland.ie. Closing date for applications: 4pm Monday 10th August 2026. A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months. Please review Enable Ireland’s Rezoomo Privacy Policy here: https://enableireland.ie/resources/publications/rezoomo-privacy-policy. Please review the Enable Ireland’s External Data Protection Notice available at https://www.enableireland.ie/privacy-policy for details on how Enable Ireland processes applicant’s personal information. Please note if you are invited for interview, we will share your personal data with: 1) Any virtual service provider we use to host the interview; and 2) the interview panel (if applicable). Your information will be stored for this purpose in line with our retention policy.