Clinical Nurse Manager I 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.

Would you like to work for a great employer? 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 2024.

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 CNM1 to join our team in Childrens Respite Serivces, Curraheen, Cork.

The purpose of the role is to assist the manager to provide a safe, homely environment for children who are visiting Enable Ireland Respite House. To work with the service users through a person centred approach to meet their identified needs during their stay.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have

Essential Criteria:

• A recognised validated University Degree or an equivalent qualification in Nursing.
• Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI] or entitled to be so registered
• Have at least 3 years post registration fulltime experience (or an aggregate of 3 years post registration full time experience) of which 1 year post registration full time experience (or an aggregate of 1 years post registration full time experience) must be in working with children with disabilities, (physical disability, autism, learning disability) and their families.
• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
• Candidates must demonstrate evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• On appointment, Practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevant division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

Desirable Criteria:

• Good knowledge of child protection & child development
• RNID qualified
• Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of residential respite and day services
• Understanding of HIQA standards
• Experience managing rosters and staffing

Details

Contract Type: Temporary (specified purpose covering maternity leave)

Contract Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary Scale: €54,537 to €64,669 pro rata per annum.

Closing date: 28 Oct 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: Wednesday 28th October 2026 before noon