Social Care Worker (Lavanagh House) 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 Social Care Worker to join our team in Childrens Respite, Lavanagh House, Currraheen, Cork

Lavanagh house Children’s Respite service provides services to children with disabilities in the Cork area in active partnership and in line with the needs and wishes of the child and family. Enable Ireland respite services are committed to working in partnership with service users and families in the planning, delivery and evaluation of all services. Lavanagh house provides planned short term respite care, both day and night, where children will be grouped together by age and interest. Our staffing levels compliment the health and social care needs of the children attending respite

Contract Type: Relief

Contract Hours: Variable Hours

Salary Scale: The current salary scale for this post is €39,160 (€19.30/hour) to €54,746 (€26.99) 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 for variable hours contracts

Requirements

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

• Hold professional registration on the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU.
• See list of recognised Social Care qualifications at: https://coru.ie/health-and-social-care-professionals/education/approved-qualifications/social-care-workers/
• Annual registration
• On appointment practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU.
• Experience in contributing to the development of personal plans.
• Has experience and knowledge of the role of a key worker.
• Experience of delivering personal care to adults.
• Experience of assisting adults with medical needs/ administering medication.
• Experience of engaging in professional supervision.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of working with adults with disabilities including physical/intellectual/ ASD/behaviours of concern.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in taking leadership in the development of personal plans.
• Experience in responding to complaints

Details

Location: Cork, Ireland

Closing date: 5 Aug 2026 11:00 AM

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.