Clinical Nurse Manager I

Enable Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 65,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training opportunities

Generous annual leave

Long service reward scheme

Pay adjusted Maternity Leave

Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave

Pay adjusted Paternity Leave

Job summary

Enable Ireland seeks a highly motivated Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM1) to lead and support Adult Day Services across Crumlin Rialto and Tallaght. The role delivers high-quality, person-centred nursing care and ensures governance and continuous quality improvement.

This permanent part-time post (0.8 WTE) offers a pro rata salary between €54,537 and €64,669, with comprehensive staff benefits, training opportunities, generous leave, and career development within a values-driven organisation.

Qualifications

• Recognised nursing degree and registration with NMBI.
• Minimum 3 years post-registration experience, with at least 1 year in working with children with disabilities.
• Strong clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to discharge the role.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Eligible to work in Ireland with a full clean driver's licence.
• Management course commenced or completed.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and operational support across Adult Day Services.
• Promote best clinical practice and oversee governance and quality improvement.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective and responsive services.
• Build strong professional relationships with stakeholders to support community living.

Skills

Management experience

Clinical governance

CPD evidence

NMBI registration

Driver's license

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

Description

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 Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM1) to join our team in CHO 7 Adult Services Crumlin Rialto and Tallaght.

Contract Type: Permanent Part-time (0.8 WTE)

Salary Scale: €54,537 to €64,669 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

Annual Leave Entitlement: 34 - 37 days pro rata per annum (Dependent on years’ service) and proportionately less for less than 12 months service.

Overview of the Post:

To provide clinical leadership and operational support across Adult Day Services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centred, evidence-based nursing care to adults with physical and sensory disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or Intellectual Disability.

The post holder will support nursing staff, promote best clinical practice, oversee clinical governance and quality improvement, and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe, effective and responsive services in line with Enable Ireland's ethos, New Directions and professional standards.

Key Working Relationships: Enable Ireland delivers services using the social model of disability and has a wide range of stakeholders with whom strong professional relationships need to be forged and fostered on an ongoing basis. These stakeholders will be clearly identified and be relevant to supporting the service owners to live independent lives in their local community.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:

Please see Job Description for full list

Candidate Requirements

• A recognised validated University Degree or an equivalent qualification in Nursing.
• Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI].
• Have at least 3 years post registration fulltime experience (or an aggregate of 3 years post registration full time experience) of which 1 year post registration full time experience (or an aggregate of 1 years post registration full time experience) must be in working with children with disabilities, (physical disability, autism, learning disability) and their families.
• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
• Candidates must demonstrate evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• On appointment, Practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevant division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Be eligible to work in the state.
• Hold full clean drivers licence and willingness to drive service vehicles.
• Management course commenced or completed

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
• Long service reward scheme
• Pay adjusted Maternity Leave
• Pay adjusted Adoptive Leave
• Pay adjusted Paternity Leave

Closing date for applications: Thursday 15th October, 2026 @ 12pm

What now?

• 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.
• The above information serves only as a guide to the advertised position. Enable Ireland, at its discretion, reserves the right to change this prior to appointment.
• Please review the Enable Ireland’s External Data Protection Notice available at https://www.enableireland.ie/privacy-policy for details on how Enable Ireland processes applicant’s personal information. Please note if you are invited for interview, we will share your personal data with: 1) Any virtual service provider we use to host the interview; and 2) the interview panel (if applicable). Your information will be stored for this purpose in line with our retention policy

Enable Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer