SLDS Physical And Sensory Disability Manager

Job Title and Grade

Physical and Sensory Disability Manager (Grade VIII)

Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) 1

Grade Code 0655

Campaign Reference

SLDS2537

Closing Date

Friday 9th January 2026 at 12 Noon

Proposed Interview Date(s)

TBC

Organisational Area

Community Services Cavan Donegal Leitrim Monaghan Sligo

Location of Posts

There is a Specified Purpose (temporary post) located in – Sligo/Leitrim Disability Services – Markievicz House, Barrack Street, Sligo

A panel may be formed as a result of this campaign from which current and future, permanent and specified purpose vacancies of full or part-time duration may be filled.

Informal Enquiries

Ms Bernadette Donaghy, General Manager for Disability Services, (047) 39050 / 071 9135018

Details of Service

Encompasses adult Physical & Sensory Intellectual Disability Services. This role involves the management of HSE provided residential services and the management of the SLA and Grant Aid processes through which voluntary and section 38 providers are funded, and may also include participating in the management of regulated services.

The post holder will also have management responsibility for Assistive Technology, Sligo Leitrim West Cavan, and the National Ability Support Services (NASS).

The role of the Social Care Division is to support the ongoing service requirements of older people and people with disabilities. It is an important step in moving forward with the design and implementation of models of care which will support and maintain patients and clients to live at home and/or in their own community. The objective is to promote independence and lifestyle choice in as far as possible:

· People with disabilities with care needs must be provided with a continuum of services such as home care, day care and intermediate residential care to avoid unnecessary acute hospital admissions and have their required treatments & supports delivered within their local community at primary care level in as far as possible.

· These types of services must be responsive to service user needs and be provided flexibly at the least possible unit cost to build a sustainable system into to the future.

A key function of the social care division is to:

· Organise and deliver the required services safely and to a set of standards

· Reconfigure the available resource through a comprehensive reform process, increasing productivity and changing traditional cost structures in the process.

In line with the Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2011-2014, the Social Care division will:

· Implement the recommendations of the Value for Money and Policy Review of Disability Service so as to implement reforms to the system of financing and delivery of services including the introduction of individualised budgets.

· Enhance the cost effectiveness of services by introduction standardised funding bands for specific types of services for people with disabilities and developing a standardised needs assessment framework to ensure that levels/types of services provided are appropriate to people’s needs.

In addition, the Social Care Division will progress the implementation of key programmes including:

· The programme for Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People.

· National Neuro Rehabilitation Strategy and development of Neuro Rehabilitation services

· Reconfiguring adult day services as outlined in New Directions – Report on the National Working Group for the Review of HSE funded Adult Day Services.

· Reconfiguring residential services as recommended in Time to Move from Congregated Settings and the National Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy.