Job Title: Regional Director – Disability Services
Location: Galway, West of Ireland
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time Role
Reports To: Group CEO
Salary: Excellent salary, Annual bonus and competitive benefit package
Are you a Senior Manager with extensive experience managing disability services and passion to lead high-performing teams in a person-centred care environment?
Are you an Operations Manager in the disability sector, ready to take the Lead to Build Brighter futures for people with disabilities in the West of Ireland?
Have you worked with HIQA, the HSE, and multidisciplinary teams to scale and innovate care models?
Excel Recruitment is seeking a highly motivated Regional Director on behalf of an expanding company that provides services to children and young adults in the care and disability sectors.
Our client is expanding across the West of Ireland, and this role represents a unique opportunity to Lead Regional Operations and strategic growth from the ground up.
Our client currently providing residential, respite, outreach and day services to both children and adults with medium to profound disability including those with life limiting conditions. They have both children’s and adult’s residential homes in the community and also offer both children’s and adults respite.
As Regional Director, you will hold executive accountability for all service delivery and growth across the West of Ireland. You will report directly to the Group CEO and work as part of a senior leadership team focused on delivering high-quality, regulated, and rights-based services.
This role blends strategic planning, clinical governance, multi-stakeholder relationship building, and financial management, with a clear mission: to build brighter futures for people with disabilities.
The multidisciplinary team includes social care workers, nurses and healthcare assistants who are supported by a range of other professionals including psychologists, behavioural therapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.
Responsibilities will include:
* Explicitly focus on continuous quality improvement initiatives, setting specific quality benchmarks, implementing best practices, and regularly reviewing service outcomes to enhance satisfaction of the people we support, whilst ensuring that all services provide the highest-quality care and best outcomes for Supported individuals.
* Build and maintain relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, going beyond traditional CHO areas.
* Develop and implement strategies for creating high-performing teams tailored to the unique challenges of expansion.
* Optimise operational efficiencies and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
* You will also ensure a rights-based approach in service delivery placing the supported individual at the centre of all decision making.
* Drive innovation in care solutions and actively explore opportunities to develop new services, emphasising creative approaches to service development and adaptation, aligning with the group's innovative aspirations to meet unique needs.
* As agreed with the Group CEO and Senior Management Team, lead the strategic expansion plan. This includes overseeing the setup and ongoing management of services and developing and implementing a specific vision for expansion.
* Meet financial targets related to the opening of new houses and effectively managing house cost centres, ensuring the financial aspects of service expansion are strategically planned and executed, aligning with the organisation's objectives for growth and sustainability.
Eligibility Criteria:
* Social care, Healthcare or equivalent primary degree to honours level that meets the criteria to be registered as a Social Care Worker with CORU
* Minimum of four years’ experience, at least senior management level
* Will ideally have an additional management or business qualification
* Experience of working with HIQA and evidence of building positive working relationships and stakeholders.
* Extensive experience in the disability sector, including residential care, which may be in the public, voluntary, or private sector.
* Strong, proven management experience, ideally at a regional level, and will have a proven track record of managing teams of staff.
* Experience in service set-up and communication with HSE Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) personnel is highly desirable.
* Proactive and independent and have strong follow up skills.
* Competent in combining the challenges of day-to-day service provision with developing and implementing a strategic direction for the service.
* Highly motivated by quality of service and committed to the expansion plan.
* Hold a full manual driving licence with full eligibility to drive in Ireland
Benefits:
* Excellent base salary.
* Very generous annual bonus based on the achievement of performance objectives.
* Mileage expenses.
* Annual leave 28 days per annum plus public holidays.
* Entitled to access a PRSA scheme on successful completion of six month probationary period. The employee contribution is 5% and the employer contributes 5%.
* Participating in work that really makes a difference to the lives of people with disabilities.
* Access to a wide range of training opportunities to ensure that staff are confident in the care they provide to young people.
* Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families.
What you need to do now:
Please reach out confidentially to Charlene Cooke by email ccooke@excelrecruitment.com or telephone 00353 89 9455139
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