Support 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, 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 Support Worker to join our team in Childrens Respite, Lavanagh House, Currraheen, Cork

Contract Type: Relief

Contract Hours: Variable Hours

Salary Scale: The current salary scale for this post is €35,070 (€17.29/hour) – €42,440 (€20.93/hour) pro rata per annum. 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

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. The role of Support worker is to work as part of a dedicated and innovative team to provide person centred services to children with disabilities who attend Enable Ireland Services.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have

Essential Criteria

• QQI Level 5 Major Award in one of the following:
• Healthcare Support
• Social Care
• Pre Nursing
• Childcare
• (8 modules to include one module on special needs/disability studies/challenging behaviour or a commitment to complete one of these modules within 6-months of commencement)
• OR
• A comparable SNA Qualification
• OR
• Year 1 of a relevant degree programme in Health and Social Care (such as Social Care, Child Care, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech & Language Therapy)
• AND
• Full Clean Manual Driving License and willingness to drive company vehicles.
• AND
• Be eligible to work in the state

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of supporting people with disabilities.
• Experience of working with people with behaviours of concern.
• Experience of providing personal care
• Basic IT skills

Details

Location: Cork

Sector: public sector

Closing date: 5 Aug 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 5th August 2026 before noon