Senior Grade Speech and Language Therapist

Enable Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training opportunities

Flexible working

Pension

Wellbeing benefits

Long service reward

Maternity leave

Adoptive leave

Paternity leave

Annual leave

Job summary

Enable Ireland is seeking highly motivated Senior Grade Speech and Language Therapists to join our team, CHO6, Dublin South. We have permanent and part-time posts, based in Sandymount and Leopardstown.

The post provides speech and language therapy to children aged 0–18 with disabilities, including assessment, diagnosis, intervention, supervision, and collaboration within an interdisciplinary team. Competitive salary and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Be registered, or be eligible for registration, with CORU.
• 3 years’ full-time post-qualification clinical experience.
• Annual CORU registration must be maintained.

Responsibilities

• Provide SLT services to an assigned caseload of children aged 0–18 with disabilities.
• Perform assessment, diagnostics and intervention.
• Deliver supervision and ongoing service delivery within an interdisciplinary team.

Skills

CORU registration

3 years experience

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Education

SLT degree

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 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 highly-motivated Senior Grade Speech and Language Therapists to join our team CHO6, Dublin South. 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 Post

Contract Hours: Full and Part Time Posts

Salary Scale: €62,072 – €73,477 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

This pay scale is subject to increases in 2026 in accordance with the recent WRC agreement towards enhanced pay adjustments in Section 39 organisations.

Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata 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 speech and language therapy 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 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.

Essential Criteria

• Be registered, or be eligible for registration, as a Speech & Language Therapist by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU.
• Have 3 years’ full time (or an aggregate of 3 years’ full time) post qualification clinical experience.
• Have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and professional ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
• Provide proof of statutory registration on the Speech & Language Therapist Register maintained by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.
• Eligible to work in the State.
• On appointment, practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Speech & Language Therapists Register maintained by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU.
• Practitioners must confirm annual registration with CORU to Enable Ireland.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of interdisciplinary team working.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with children with disabilities.
• Experience working with children with Eating, Drinking and Swallowing difficulties.
• Experience working with Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC).

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

Closing date for applications: 23rd September 2026

Interview date for successful application: TBC

Additional Information

• 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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