Enhanced/ Staff Nurse in Galway

About the Role

Corlann – West Region provides a community-based, person-centred service focusing on the needs and abilities of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The vision of the service is to support people with intellectual disabilities to achieve a full and valued life in their community, in line with best practice both nationally and internationally.

This post is primarily located in Crannog Children’s Respite Service. Crannog provides a respite service to children from 6 years of age up to 18 years of age who have a wide range of needs including those with Physical disability, complex medical needs, Autism and behavioural needs. There may also be a requirement to cover hours in the other Children’s Services including Crannmor Respite, Rosedale School and the Child Development Centres located in Galway City.

The successful candidate will be required to work days, evenings, weekends, public holidays, sleepovers and night duty to meet service needs.

Requirements

Candidates must have:

• A current Live Register Certificate from the NMBI (An Bord Altranais), RNID or RGN qualification is essential.
• Experience of working with children or in an Intellectual Disability setting is desirable.
• A full clean manual Driving Licence, which qualifies you to drive manual transmission vehicles on Irish Roads is desirable. It may also be necessary for the appointee to obtain a Class D1 Driving Licence (if not already in possession of one).
• Fluency in verbal and written English is an essential requirement of this post.
• Basic IT skills are also desirable.

Details

Location: Galway

Contract type: Permanent and temporary full-time

Tenure: 1x - Permanent full-time and pensionable. 2x - Temporary, full time and pensionable linked on a specific purpose basis to a permanent staff member’s career break.

Salary: Indicative HSE pay scale for this grade: €38,166–€56,592 per year.

Closing date: 27 Aug 2026

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 8th September 2026.

Informal enquiries to Jacqueline Smith, CNM 087 9301656 or Ciara Donoghue Clarke, Children’s Service Coordinator 087 3999921.

How to Apply

Closing date for receipt of completed application forms /CV’s on-line is 5pm, Thursday 27th August 2026.