Only 24h Left: Senior Physiotherapist

Who We Are

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, independence and more.

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: €59,662 to €70,624 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 through the Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNT) under the national Progressing Disabilities Services (PDS) model for children and young people with complex needs arising from a disability. The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a range of Physiotherapist services for young people (0 – 18 years) and their families within an interdisciplinary framework. Service will include assessment and intervention, clinical supervision and ongoing service development. This will be delivered through a family‑centred approach across a variety of settings including the clinic, preschools, schools, children’s homes and community settings.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities

Please see Job Description for full list.

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 Driver’s Licence.

- 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.

- Experience in identification of secondary impairments associated with children with complex disability/physical disability.

- Experience providing clinical supervision to basic grade PTs and/or students.

- Access to own transport.

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.

- 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 click here: (link omitted)

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: 11th November 2025.

Enable Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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