Support Worker (Lavanagh House)

Fairways Hotel; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 35,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training opportunities

Generous annual leave

Long service reward scheme

Maternity leave pay adjustment

Adoptive leave pay adjustment

Paternity leave pay adjustment

Job summary

Enable Ireland in Cork is seeking a highly motivated Support Worker to join the Lavanagh House Children’s Respite service. You will work as part of a dedicated team to provide person-centred care to children with disabilities in Cork.

The post is Relief with variable hours. The salary scales currently range from €35,070 to €42,440 pro rata per annum, with increases anticipated in 2026 under the Section 39 agreement.

Qualifications

• QQI Level 5 Major Award in Social Care, or Pre Nursing (8 modules incl. disability studies).
• Comparable SNA qualification.
• Year 1 of Health and Social Care degree (Health and Social Care/Child Care/Nursing or related).
• Full Clean Manual Driving Licence and willingness to drive company vehicles.
• Be eligible to work in Ireland.
• Experience of supporting people with disabilities.
• Experience of working with behaviours of concern.
• Experience of providing personal care.
• Basic IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Please see Job Description for full list

Skills

Experience of supporting people with: 

Experience of working with people with

Experience of providing personal care

Basic IT skills

Driving licence

Education

QQI Level 5 Major Award in Social Care

QQI Level 5 Major Award in Pre Nursing

Year 1 of Health and Social Care degree

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

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.

Description

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.

We are currently seeking a highly-motivated Support Worker to join our team in Childrens Respite, Lavanagh House, Currraheen, Cork

Contract Type: Relief

Contract Hours: Variable Hours

Salary Scale: The current salary scale for this post is €35,070 (€17.29/hour) – €42,440 (€20.93/hour) pro rata per annum.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: 10.7% of hours worked for variable hours contracts

Overview of the Post:

Lavanagh house Children’s Respite service provides services to children with disabilities in the Cork area in active partnership and in line with the needs and wishes of the child and family. Enable Ireland respite services are committed to working in partnership with service users and families in the planning, delivery and evaluation of all services. Lavanagh house provides planned short term respite care, both day and night, where children will be grouped together by age and interest. The role of Support worker is to work as part of a dedicated and innovative team to provide person centred services to children with disabilities who attend Enable Ireland Services.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:

Please see Job Description for full list

The successful candidate will have

• QQI Level 5 Major Award in one of the following:
  • Social Care
  • Pre Nursing
    • (8 modules to include one module on special needs/disability studies/challenging behaviour or a commitment to complete one of these modules within 6-months of commencement)
• OR
• A comparable SNA Qualification
• OR
• Year 1 of a relevant degree programme in Health and Social Care (such as Social Care, Child Care, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech & Language Therapy)
• AND
• Full Clean Manual Driving License and willingness to drive company vehicles.
• AND
• Be eligible to work in the state

• Experience of supporting people with disabilities.
• Experience of working with people with behaviours of concern.
• Experience of providing personal care
• Basic IT skills

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

Closing date for applications: Friday 11th September 2026 before noon

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.
• 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;
• 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