Relief Family Support Worker in County Clare

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 highly-motivated Relief Family Support Workers to join our team in Enable Ireland Family Support Services in Clare.

Contract Type: Variable Hours

Contract Hours: Variable Hours (Hours Negotiable)

Salary Scale: €35,070 to €42,440 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments).

“This pay scale is subject to increases in 2026 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations”

Annual Leave Entitlement: 10.7% of hours worked

To provide in-home and community based support to children with additional needs and their families. The family support service will be coordinated by the Family Support & Respite Coordinators, who will prioritise families to be involved in the service, who agrees with each family the type and level of support to be provided. The family support worker will be supervised by and work closely with the Family Support & Respite Coordinator. In order to provide a flexible family support service, the Family Support Worker will be required to work during evenings and weekends.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum QQI Level 5 Childcare course (total 8 modules) to include module on special needs or Year 1 completed of a related degree programme (such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology) or SNA Qualification or a relevant health care qualification
• Access to Transport
• Must be eligible to work in the state

Desirable Criteria:

• 1 Year’s experience of working with children with additional needs.
• Holder of a full clean driving licence with no restrictions
• Up to date Manual Handling, First Aid, Children First, Infection control, PPE Training

Details

Location: Clare, Ireland

Closing date: 31 Aug 2026

Informal Queries to: Helen Geiss – Family Support Coordinator by email at hgeiss@enableireland.ie

To apply, please download the Job Description and Person Specification for your information and complete the online application form. CVs will not be accepted.