Staff Nurse/ Enhanced Nurse (Adult Respite Services) in Ladysbridge

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 2024. 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 Staff Nurse to join our team in Ard na Mara, Ladysbridge, Co Cork. The role is permanent, full-time, 37.5 hours per week. Salary Scale: €37,060- €54,111 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: 33/34/36 days pro rata (depending on experience).

To provide a safe, homely environment to adults who are visiting Enable Ireland community homes. To work with the Service Owners to meet their identified needs during their stay. As a member of the team and through a person centred approach work with Services Owners accessing respite service including the delivery of intimate and personal care, housekeeping and social support.

Requirements

Essential Criteria:

• Be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI]
• Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability, (including a high standard of clinical and administrative capacity), for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
• Annual registration
• On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI]
• Candidates for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.
• Candidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.
• Be eligible to work in the State
• Possess a full clean manual driving license.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of working with adults or children with disabilities desirable.
• Experience of working within a residential/respite setting an advantage.
• Have a minimum of 1 years post registration experience
• Experience of working in a person-centred health or social care setting
• Have such experience as will enable him/her to provide nursing duties as required.

Details

Location: Ladysbridge, Cork

Contract Type: Permanent, full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: €37,060–€54,111 per year

Closing date: 2 Sept 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. Closing date for applications: Wednesday 2nd September 2026 before noon. A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months. The post will be subject to reference checks and may be subject to Garda vetting/police clearance, as relevant. Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants from all sections of the community. The above information serves only as a guide to the advertised position. Enable Ireland, at its discretion, reserves the right to change this prior to appointment. Please review Enable Ireland’s Rezoomo Privacy Policy here: https://enableireland.ie/resources/publications/rezoomo-privacy-policy Please review the Enable Ireland’s External Data Protection Notice available at https://www.enableireland.ie/privacy-policy for details on how Enable Ireland processes applicant’s personal information. Please note if you are invited for interview, we will share your personal data with: 1) Any virtual service provider we use to host the interview; and 2) the interview panel (if applicable). Your information will be stored for this purpose in line with our retention policy.