Social Worker in Dublin

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 Worker (Professionally Qualified) to join our team in CHO 7 Ballyboden CDNT 2

Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time

Contract Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary Scale: €48,360 to €70,563 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: 34 days pro rata per annum and proportionately less for less than 12 months service.

To provide a quality, evidence based social work service to children and young people aged 0 – 18 years and their families within an interdisciplinary and family centred practice framework. The post holder will be required to support other staff and students as assigned.

Requirements

Essential Criteria:

• Must be registered in the Social Work Register maintained by the Social Work Registration Board at CORU
• Maintain live annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU
• 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
• Be eligible to work in the state

Desirable Criteria:

• Minimum of 1 year’s post qualification experience.
• Experience of Inter-disciplinary team working.
• Some years’ experience of working in the disability sector.
• Recent, relevant experience working with children and their families.
• Experience working with children with disabilities.

Details

Location: Ballyboden, Dublin, Ireland

Closing date: 30 Jul 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.

You may be eligible for the student sponsorship scheme please see information attached.

Closing date for applications: Thursday 30th July, 2026 @ 12pm