Dietitian Senior Grade in Kildare

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 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 Senior Dietician to join our team across 3 CDNT’s – Tallaght, Mid-Kildare and Ballyboden.

Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time

Contract Hours: 1 wte 35 hours per week

Salary Scale: €63,313 to €74,947 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata per annum

The post holder will provide clinical nutrition services to Service Users referred by the Children’s services teams. This involves the provision of nutritional counselling and nutritional support to Service Users and their families, and includes the initial consultation as well as ongoing review

Requirements

The successful candidate will have

Essential Criteria:

• Be registered, or be eligible for registration, as a Dietician by the Dietitians Registration Board at CORU.
• Have 3 years full time (or an aggregate of 3 years full time) post qualification dietetic experience
• Candidates must have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and professional ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
• Provide proof of Statutory Registration on the Dietitians Register maintained by the Dietitians Registration Board at CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.
• On appointment practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Dieticians Register maintained by the Dieticians Registration Board at CORU.
• Valid driving licence for within the state / jurisdiction with access to own transport in order to deliver services across a large geographical area
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the state.

Desirable Criteria:

• Postgraduate experience of working with children with disabilities (in a community based setting).
• Postgraduate paediatric dietetic experience.
• Postgraduate INDI Paediatric Course.
• INDI membership.

Details

Location: Kildare, Ireland

Closing date: 3 Nov 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.