Clinical Nurse Manager 2 Cork Children Services in Cork

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 Clinical Nurse Manager 2 (CNM2) to join our team in Cork Childrens’ Services, Curraheen, Co Cork

Contract Type: Specified Purpose Contract

Contract Hours: 18.75 hours per week

Salary Scale: €29,122 to € 34,629 per annum (based on working 18.75 hpw)

Annual Leave Entitlement: 34-37 days per annum pro-rata for less hours worked

Overall Purpose of the Post: To work as a member of the inter-disciplinary team providing services to children, young people (0-18 years) and families enrolled with the team. The nurse on a Children’s Disability Network Team has a pivotal role in the delivery of effective, high quality, team based support to children and young people with complex needs arising from their disability. This is to be done in partnership with their families, school staff and other stakeholders in their daily lives. This post will involve holding a key contact role for children and their families, nursing assessments and participation in team based assessments, intervention, carrying out Individual Family Service Planning meetings with families, programme planning and implementation and review of same. Provision of training and advice to families, staff and other professionals and carers will also be a significant part of this role.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have

• A recognised validated University Degree or an equivalent qualification in Nursing.
• Registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI].
• Annual Registration: On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the appropriate/relevant Division of the register of Nurses maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) for the role
• Have a minimum of 5 years post qualification full-time experience
• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development
• Have a minimum of 3 years working at a senior level, or in a supervisory capacity
• Be eligible to work in the state.
• Hold full clean drivers licence and willingness to drive service vehicles.

Desirable Criteria:

• Having a minimum of 3 years’ experience of working with Children/Young people with disabilities (physical disability, autism, learning disability) and their families

Details

Location: Cork City, County Cork, Ireland

Contract Type: Temporary, Part-time

Salary: €29,122–€34,629 per year

Closing date: 7 Sept 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.

Closing date for applications: Monday 7th September 2026 @ noon.

A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months.