Staff Nurse

Enable Ireland; Wicklow; Remote; EUR 38,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training opportunities

Generous annual leave

Long service reward scheme

Leave adjustments for maternity/adopt/

Paternity Leave

Job summary

Enable Ireland in Wicklow (CHO6) is seeking a highly-motivated Staff Nurse to join a team providing respite and support for children with disabilities and their families. Relief posts, registered with NMBI, are required with a minimum of 1 year post-qualification experience and ability to work to a high clinical standard.

Annual salary scale €37,801–€55,193 pro rata; generous leave and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMBI registration.
• Minimum 1 year post-qualification experience, preferably with children with disabilities.
• Eligible to work in Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care in a community-based house within a team.
• Discharge duties with high clinical standards and documentation.
• Support respite and holiday breaks for children with disabilities and their families.

Skills

Nursing

Childcare/Disabilities experience

Clinical capacity

Administrative capacity

Education

NMBI registration (Registered Nurse)

Job description

Enable Ireland provides services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities and their families from 43 locations in 14 counties. Covering childhood to adulthood our expert teams work with the individual and their family on a plan for each life stage. Our services for children and their families cover all aspects of a child's physical, educational, and social development from early infancy through adolescence. For adults we offer a range of services covering personal development, independence and well being.

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 Staff Nurse to join our team in Wicklow (CHO6). We have Relief opportunities within our teams in Silverpine House, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Contract Type: Relief posts

Salary Scale: €37,801 - €55,193 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

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 part of a dedicated and innovative team in a community-based house providing respite and holiday breaks for children with physical and/or sensory disabilities or mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, within a quality framework.

The successful candidate will have:

• Be registered, or be eligible for registration, in the General Nurse Division of the Register of Nurses kept by the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).
• Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability, (including a high standard of clinical and administrative capacity), for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.
• Eligible to work in the State.
• Experience working with children with disabilities and their families/carers.
• Minimum of 1 year post qualification experience.

Annual registration

On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the General Nurse Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).

And

Practitioners must confirm annual registration with the NMBI to Enable Ireland.

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

What now?

Closing date for applications: 29th October 2026

Interview date for successful applications: 5th November 2026

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.

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