Relief Family Support Worker

3 days ago

Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Fairways Hotel Full time

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.

Description

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Would you like to work for a great employer? 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 highly-motivated Relief Family Support Workers to join our team in Enable Ireland Family Support Services in Limerick.

Contract Type: Variable Hours

Salary Scale: €32,639 to €39,499 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI's (Long Service Increments).

Annual Leave Entitlement: 10.7% of hours worked.

Overview of the Post:

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 prioritize families to be involved in the service and agree 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.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:

Please see Job Description for the full list of Duties & Responsibilities.

The successful candidate will have:

  1. Minimum QQI Level 5 Childcare course (total 8 modules) to include a 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.
  2. Access to Transport.
  3. Must be eligible to work in the state.
  4. 1 Year's experience of working with children with additional needs.
  5. Holder of a full clean driving licence with no restrictions.
  6. Up to date Manual Handling, First Aid, Children First, Infection control, PPE Training.

In the event of a high volume of applicants, Desirable Criteria may be applied in the shortlisting process.

If you believe you would fit the role then please submit your application today.

As a staff member of Enable Ireland, you will have access to a wide range of benefits, including:

  1. Excellent internal and external training opportunities.
  2. Generous annual leave entitlements.
  3. Long service reward scheme.
  4. Pay adjusted Maternity Leave.
  5. Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave.
  6. Pay adjusted Paternity Leave.

For a full list of our benefits & conditions, please click here.

What now?

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

A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months.

Enable Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.

The post will be subject to reference checks and may be subject to Garda vetting/police clearance, as relevant.

Due to the large volume of applications, we are not in the position to provide individual feedback to applicants who are not shortlisted for interview.

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 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.

Enable Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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