Senior Grade Psychologist

Enable Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 99,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlements

Flexible Working

Long service reward scheme

Pension

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Enable Ireland invites applications for the Senior Psychologist role to provide a psychology service to children and families within the region. The post supports assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and supervision for an assigned caseload across community and school settings.

The position is permanent, with full or part-time hours available at our Sandymount and Leopardstown offices in Dublin, offering extensive benefits and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Recognised university degree or diploma (QQI level 8 equivalent) in Psychology with an honours classification.
• Irish post-graduate professional psychology qualification accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) in Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology.
• Membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) or British Psychological Society (BPS).
• Minimum five years' satisfactory post-graduate experience in professional psychology.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychology services to an assigned caseload including assessment, diagnostic evaluation, and intervention.
• Deliver clinical and performance supervision and ongoing service delivery to children with disabilities aged 0–18 years.
• Collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team across community and school settings.

Job 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 2026. Enable Ireland, is an equal opportunities employer. We strongly 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 Psychologist to join our team. We have full time and part time posts available, 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 and specified purpose posts.

Contract Hours: Full and part time hours available.

Salary Scale: €99,938 - €117,469 pro rata per annum.

Salary scales are subject to LSI's (Long Service Increments).

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 be responsible for the provision of a psychology service 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 diagnostics and intervention, clinical and performance supervision and ongoing service delivery to children with a range of disabilities attending our service. 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 see Job Description for full list.

Essential Criteria

Applicants must have a recognised university degree or diploma (QQ1 level 8 equivalent) obtained with 1st or 2nd class honours in which Psychology was taken as a major subject and honours obtained in that subject, and which meets the requirements of the Psychological Society of Ireland to work as a Clinical Psychologist. AND Have an Irish post-graduate professional psychology qualification accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland in Clinical, Counselling or Educational Psychology. OR An equivalent qualification from another jurisdiction validated by the Department of Health. AND Demonstrate competence in the Care Group/s applied for. AND Must be a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) or a member of the British Psychological Society (BPS). AND Applicants must have at least five years' satisfactory post graduate experience in the area of professional psychology, no more than three years of which was spent in gaining the post-graduate professional qualification and no less than two years full-time spent in post qualification experience as a professional psychologist. Years in excess of the permitted three years for completion of the post-graduate training or time not worked will not be taken into consideration when assessing the five years' experience requirement. AND Applicants with a clinical or counselling psychology qualification must demonstrate that they have acquired in appropriate health settings, for the areas for which they wish to apply - Disability (Child and Adult), Child Psychology, Adult Psychology either at least 60 days or equivalent supervised clinical placements as part of the professional qualification or at least 60 days or equivalent post qualification supervised work experience as a psychologist. OR Applicants with an educational psychology qualification must demonstrate that they have acquired in appropriate health settings for the areas for which they wish to apply - Child Disability, Child Psychology either at least 60 days or equivalent supervised clinical placements as part of the professional qualification or at least 60 days or equivalent post qualification supervised work experience as a psychologist. AND Eligible to work in the State. Note: Combinations of supervised clinical placement experience as part of the qualification and post qualification supervised work experience within a single care group area to give a total of 60 days are not acceptable.

Desirable Criteria

Previous experience in a senior post. Experience of facilitating parent groups. Experience of inter or trans-disciplinary team working. Experience of working with children aged from birth to 18 years, with a range of disabilities, (including physical disability, autism, learning disability) and their families. Specific experience in assessment and intervention with children with physical disabilities and/or specific learning difficulties. Qualification and experience in completing ASD diagnostic assessments. Experience and training in formal supervision processes.

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.

Closing date for applications: 04/11/2026

Interview date for successful applicants: 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. 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.

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