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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 Grade Social Worker to join our teams in CHO6, Dublin South, currently based in Sandymount and Leopardstown.
Leopardstown
Our Leopardstown office is ideally situated within a HSE building at Leopardstown Shopping Centre, offering excellent connectivity, convenience, and a vibrant working environment. Located directly on the Luas Green Line and just minutes from the M50, it ensures easy access for commuters from across the city and beyond. The shopping centre offers a range of amenities including Dunnes Stores, coffee shops like Vanilla Pod and Costa, ample parking, a pharmacy, and dry cleaning services among other retailers, making it a practical and attractive location for staff.
Sandymount
Our Sandymount office is located in a vibrant seaside village with a welcoming community feel. Just a short walk from Sandymount Strand, the village offers a great mix of cafes, restaurants, and local shops, including a Tesco for convenience. The office is served by the DART commuter train and central bus routes, making it easily commutable from the city and surrounding areas.
Contract Type: Permanent post.
Contract Hours: Full and part time hours available.
Salary Scale: €64,386 – €75,753 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments).
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: 34 days per annum and proportionately less for less than 12 months service
Overview of the Post:
To work as a senior member of the interdisciplinary team providing services to children and families within the region. The post holder will lead and be responsible for the provision of a Social Work support to an assigned caseload which may include children and their families on the community team and/or an assigned special school team. This will include assessment and intervention, clinical and performance supervision and ongoing service delivery to children with a range of disabilities attending our service, and their families.
The duties of this post will combine direct intervention with children and families with provision of support and supervision to social workers and link workers. Services are provided to children aged 0 – 18 years with physical, sensory, and/or learning disabilities, and/or developmental delay.
Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:
Please download the job description to view a full list.
The successful candidate will have
Essential Criteria:
* Must be registered in the Social Work Register maintained by the Social Work Registration Board at CORU.
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* Maintain live annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.
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* Must have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability, professional and managerial ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
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* Have three years relevant post qualification experience.
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* Be eligible to work in the State.
* Annual Registration
* On appointment practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.
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* Practitioners must confirm annual registration with CORU to Enable Ireland
Desirable Criteria:
* Experience working with children and their families.
* Experience working with children with disabilities.
* Experience in providing training.
* Previous management experience.
* 3 years’ experience in a senior or other management role.
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: 09/09/2025
Interview date for successful application: TBC
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.
* Applications are invited from suitably qualified applicants from all sections of the community.
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