Support Worker

Enable Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlements

Long service reward scheme

Maternity Leave benefits

Adoptive Leave benefits

Paternity Leave benefits

Job summary

Enable Ireland in Dublin is hiring Support Workers for full-time and part-time roles in Dublin South East (CHO6). The role focuses on assisting with daily living, personal care, mobility, and community participation across day services and community settings.

Applicants must have FETAC Level 5 in Social Care or be progressing with 2–3 modules completed, and a full clean Class B licence. Experience with disabilities and in social/leisure settings is required; IT skills and vehicle-related tasks

Qualifications

• Be undertaking a FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Social Care or other similar health care area, in which 2-3 relevant modules have already been completed. Candidates will be required to complete the award within the first 3 years of taking up the role.
• Eligible to work in the State.
• Full, clean class B manual driver’s license (please note you will be asked to provide proof of this prior to interview).
• Experience of supporting people with disabilities in an employment, voluntary or personal capacity.
• Experience providing personal care to adults.
• Experience working with adults in social/leisure settings.
• Experience of working in community/non-centred based settings.
• Basic IT skills.
• Good knowledge and experience of routine vehicle maintenance.
• Experience of positioning and clamping wheelchairs and their occupants in vehicles.

Skills

Driver's license (Class B)

Experience with disabilities

Personal care experience

Social/leisure support experience

Community/non-centred settings

Basic IT skills

Vehicle maintenance knowledge

Wheelchair handling in vehicles

Education

FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Social Care or equivalent

Undertaking FETAC Level 5 Certificate (2–3 modules completed)

Job description

Who We Are

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, indep

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 Support Workers to join our team in Dublin South East (CHO6). We have full-time and part-time opportunities within our teams in Sandyford and Dun Laoghaire.

Contract Type

Permanent Posts.

Contract Hours

Full time and part time hours considered up to 39 per week.

Salary Scale

€35,771 - €43,288 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

Overview of the Post

The role of the Support Worker is to facilitate the Service Owner in all aspects of daily living, including: assisting with personal care needs, mobility, and supporting access and participation in activities of choice provided by day services, in the community, and online/virtually. The post holder will provide opportunities to help develop a range of options for the individual in areas of training, employment and greater inclusion in their local community.

*Please note that you must hold a full, clean, manual class B driver’s licence to be eligible for this role. You will be required to present evidence of this before being invited to interview*

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities

Please see Job Description for full list of duties.

The successful candidate will have:

• FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Social Care or other similar health care area.

OR

• Be undertaking a FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Social Care or other similar health care area, in which 2-3 relevant modules have already been completed. Candidates will be required to complete the award within the first 3 years of taking up the role.

AND

• Eligible to work in the State.
• Full, clean class B manual driver’s license (please note you will be asked to provide proof of this prior to interview).
• Experience of supporting people with disabilities in an employment, voluntary or personal capacity.
• Experience providing personal care to adults.
• Experience working with adults in social/leisure settings.
• Experience of working in community/non-centred based settings.
• Basic IT skills.
• Good knowledge and experience of routine vehicle maintenance.
• Experience of positioning and clamping wheelchairs and their occupants in vehicles.

Benefits

• 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

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