Staff Nurse – Respite Service (Carlow/Kilkenny)
Contract Type: Permanent Full-Time
Location: Carlow and Kilkenny
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 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 role involves providing respite and home support services to children and young people, using a person-centred approach to meet identified needs, involving weekday and weekend work, sleep overs, and night duty.
Duties
Create an environment that promotes each child’s participation in choice and decision-making and which enables each child to reach independence.
Display skilled clinical and therapeutic interventions to provide care across various states of health and wellbeing and promoting wellness.
Work within scope of practice, building on professional development throughout employment.
Lead clinician in assigned clinical areas of responsibility with a caseload appropriate to the post.
Coordinate, assess, plan, implement and review care for children according to service standards including TUSLA and HIQA regulations.
Ensure implementation of agreed programmes of care for each child, promoting dignity and respect.
Identify and understand health and medical needs of each child and ensure inclusive needs are met.
Work with individual children in various settings; staff lead in ensuring children’s safety.
Provide leadership, support, mentorship to all support staff in clinical and care delivery across multiple locations.
Take responsibility for line management and clinical supervision of staff and students within the team/service as required.
In partnership with parents/carers/team act as facilitator to foster links with children’s future educators.
Identify training needs and deliver training to non-nursing staff as required.
Ensure care and hygiene of treatment rooms, bathrooms and toileting facilities to high standards.
Plan and manage bus routes, time schedules and act as bus escort for transportation of children to and from home as required.
Display appropriate sensitivity while working closely with families and service users.
Work in accordance with Enable Ireland’s Code of Practice, Guidelines for working with Services Users and other national policies and procedures.
In consultation with the inter-/multidisciplinary team design, implement and evaluate programmes of activity for each child.
Liaise with and organise paediatric clinics as appropriate.
Liaise with health care professionals.
Ensure equipment, toys and furniture are maintained; overall responsibility for children’s clothing and equipment, ensuring they return home in good order.
Essential Criteria
A recognised validated University Degree or equivalent qualification in Intellectual Disability Nursing or Children’s Nursing.
Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).
Current eligibility to work in the state.
Full manual driving licence for within the state/jurisdiction with access to own transport.
Experience working with children with disability.
Annual registration with NMBI.
Desirable Criteria
Commitment to partnership with parents/carers and family centred approach.
Good knowledge of child protection & child development.
Understanding of residential respite and day services.
Understanding of HIQA standards.
Experience working with teenagers with behaviours that challenge.
Experience in inter-/transdisciplinary working.
Disciplined and professional performance under sustained or situational pressure.
Ability to arrange and schedule activities.
Self‑motivating team member working without daily supervision.
Willingness to embrace service development and change.
Benefits
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.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants from all sections of the community.
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