Senior Physiotherapist

Overview

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 and independence.

Description

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 a highly-motivated Senior Physiotherapist to join our team in Cork Children's Services, Curraheen, Cork

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: Full-time

Salary Scale: €57,771 to €68,385 pro rata per annum.

This pay scale is subject to increases in 2025 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations.

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata per annum

Overview of the Post:

Enable Ireland delivers children's services under the national Progressing Disabilities Services (PDS) model for children and young people with complex needs arising from a disability. As a Lead Agency within this model, Enable Ireland has responsibility for the delivery of services to children assigned to Children's Disability Network Teams (CDNT) within designated network areas. Services are provided in accordance with legislative and service delivery frameworks and requirements, within the resources allocated. As a senior member of the interdisciplinary team, the post holder will be responsible for the provision of physiotherapy services, including assessment and intervention to children and adolescents enrolled on the CDNT. Services will be provided across a variety of settings including the clinic, schools, preschools and special schools, children's homes and community settings.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities

- Provide physiotherapy services, including assessment and intervention, to children and adolescents enrolled on the CDNT.
- Deliver services across clinic, schools, preschools and special schools, children's homes and community settings.

The successful candidate will have

- Be registered, or be eligible for registration, on the Physiotherapists Register with CORU at time of application and provide proof of statutory registration before a contract of employment can be issued.
- Have three years' clinical experience working as a physiotherapist.
- 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
- On appointment, practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Physiotherapists Register maintained by the Physiotherapists Registration Board at CORU.
- Practitioners must confirm annual registration with CORU to Enable Ireland
- Full clean Drivers License
- Clinical experience working with children and their families as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Relevant postgraduate experience and training specific to children with disabilities (0-18 years) e.g. postural management, neurodevelopmental approaches, neuroaffirmitive approaches.
- Hydrotherapy experience
- Experience in identification of secondary impairments associated with children with complex
- Experience providing clinical supervision to basic grade PTs and/or students.
- Access to own transport

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:

- Excellent internal and external training opportunities
- Generous annual leave entitlements
- Long service reward scheme
- Pay adjusted Maternity Leave
- Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave
- Pay adjusted Paternity Leave

For a full list of our benefits & conditions, please see the posting.

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.

Closing date for applications: 16th September 2025 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.
- 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 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; and2) 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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