Staff Nurse Respite

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 2025.

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 Staff Nurse to join our team in the Carlow/Kilkenny Respite service based in both Carlow and Kilkenny.

Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary Scale: €37,060 to €54,111 pro rata per annum.
Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata per annum

This pay scale is subject to increases in 2026 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations.

Overview of the Post

The purpose of the role is to work as a member of the team providing respite and home support services, in all Enable Ireland locations across Carlow and Kilkenny. To work with the children/young people through a person centred approach to meet their identified needs during their stay in active partnership and in line with the needs and wishes of each child and family. This post will involve week day and weekend work, sleep overs and night duty.

Duties:

· Create an environment, which promotes each child’s participation in terms of choice and decision-making and in which each child is enabled to reach their highest level of independence.

· The candidate should display a skilled approach to clinical and therapeutic interventions to provide care across various states of health and wellbeing and promoting wellness.

· The candidate should be able to work within their scope of practice, building on their professional development throughout their employment.

· Be a lead clinician in assigned, allocated clinical areas of responsibility and carry a clinical caseload appropriate to the post.

· Be responsible for the co-ordination, assessment, planning, implementation and review of care for children according to service standards including TUSLA and HIQA regulations.

· Ensure the implementation of agreed programmes of care for each child, are met in ways, which promote dignity and respect for the child.

· Identify and understand the health and medical needs of each child as required and ensure their needs are met appropriately.

· Work with individual children in a range of settings. At all times the staff will take the lead in ensuring the safety of the children.

· Provide leadership, support, mentorship to all support staff in the provision of clinical and care support services across multiple locations.

· Takes responsibility for the line management and clinical supervision of staff and student within the team/service as required.

· In partnership with parents/carers/team to act as facilitator to foster links with the child’s future educators.

· Identify training needs and deliver training to non-nursing staff as required.

· Ensure that the care and hygiene of treatment rooms, bathroom and toileting facilities are to the highest standards.

· Planning and management of bus routes and time schedules and act as bus escort in the transportation of the children to and from home as required.

· Staff will be expected to display appropriate sensitivity while working closely with families and service users.

· Works in accordance with Enable Ireland’s Code of Practice, Guidelines for working with Services Users and other Enable Ireland National Policies and Procedures.

· In consultation with the inter/multidisciplinary team be responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of the programme of activity for each child.

· Liaise with and organise Paediatric Clinics as appropriate.

· Liaise with Health Care Professionals.

· Ensure that equipment, toys and furniture are maintained in good order. Overall responsibility for children’s clothing and equipment, ensuring they go home in good order.

Please see job description for full list of duties.

Essential Criteria:

· A recognised validated University Degree or an equivalent qualification in Intellectual Disability Nursing/ or Children’s Nursing.

· Must be registered, with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI].

· Candidates must have current eligibility to work in the state.

· Full manual driving licence for within the state / jurisdiction with access to own transport.

· Experience of working with children with disability.

· Annual registration

On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI] (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).

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Practitioners must confirm annual registration with the NMBI to Enable Ireland.

Desirable Criteria:

· Commitment to working in partnership with parents/carers and children in a family centred manner.

· Good knowledge of child protection & child development.

· Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of residential respite and day services.

· Understanding of HIQA standards.

· Experience of working with teenagers with behaviours that challenge.

· Experience of inter/transdisciplinary working.

· Maintains a disciplined and professional level of performance under sustained or situational pressure.

- Demonstrates the ability to arrange and schedule activities.

· Be able to work effectively as a team member to work without daily supervision and be self-motivating.

· Willingness to embrace service development and change.

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:

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: Friday 31st July 2026

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.

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