Clinical Nurse Manager 2/PIC (Ard Na Mara) 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 CNM2/ Person In Charge (PIC) to join our team in Ard Na Mara, Ballyhimkin, Ladysbridge, Co Cork. The Clinical Nurse Manager 2 (CNM2)/Person In Charge will be responsible for the overall management of Enable Ireland’s Ard na Mara Respite Services for adults based in Ladysbridge, East Cork. This includes PIC responsibility for the residential respite service, the management of staff and providing the highest standards of residential respite and alternative respite services and individualised packages of care when required. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with HIQA standards and implementation of Enable Ireland policies and procedures supporting best care and practice in disability services. The main responsibilities include working in partnership with service owners, their representatives/families, resource management, ensuring a safe effective service to service owners, staff development, standard setting and monitoring, facilitating communication and managing staff teams to deliver the service. The post holder will also have a lead role in the management and monitoring of risk, safeguarding and Health and Safety across adult respite and day services.

Requirements

Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:

• Must be registered with AN Bord Altranais (NMBI) as a Registered Nurse
• Are registered in a division by the register of Nurses in which the application is being made
• In exceptional circumstances, which will be assessed on a case-by-case basis registered in another Division of the register of Nurses
• A recognised validated University Degree or an equivalent qualification in Nursing
• Have a minimum of 5 years post qualification full-time experience
• Have a recognised management qualification
• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development
• Have a minimum of 3 years working at a senior level, or in a supervisory capacity
• Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working with Children/Adults with disabilities, (physical disability, autism, learning disability) and their families
• Demonstrate the ability to provide staff supervision training and development
• Have an excellent working knowledge of HIQA Guidance for the Assessment of Centres for persons with Disabilities, regulations and inspection requirements
• Be eligible to work in the State

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.

Desirable Criteria:

• Good knowledge of the disability sector e.g. Time to Move On From Congregated Settings

Details

Location: Cork City, County Cork, Ireland

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: €58,245–€69,260 per year

Closing date: 10 Aug 2026

Annual Leave Entitlement: 34-37 days (depending on experience) per annum and proportionately less for less than 12 months service

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 10th August 2026 at noon. A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months. 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. 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.