Relief Family Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Enable Ireland Full time

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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.

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

Contract Hours: Variable Hours (Hours Negotiable)

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, who agrees 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 full list of Duties & Responsibilities

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate will have:

Minimum QQI Level 5 Childcare course (total 8 modules) to include 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

Access to Transport

Must be eligible to work in the state

Desirable Criteria

1 Year's experience of working with children with additional needs.

Holder of a full clean driving licence with no restrictions

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 short listing process

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

Benefits

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

Excellent internal and external training opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlements

Flexible Working

Long service reward scheme

Pay adjusted Maternity Leave

Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave

Pay adjusted Paternity Leave

Wellbeing benefits

Pension

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

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 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.

By clicking on the Continue to application button you will be directed to the careers section of our website where you can download an application form/job description/person specification and will find instructions on how to apply.

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  • Employment typeFull-time
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  • IndustriesIndividual and Family Services

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