Join our team of Support Workers and help change lives
Become a Support Worker with Dovida and help enable children and young adults living with disability to reach their full potential through home support in the community.
Become a Support Worker in Cork
Would you like to work with children and young adults with disability in the community to support them to reach their full potential?
We are expanding our disability services for children and young adults in East Cork, and we are recruiting dedicated Support Workers to join our team.
If you are an energetic, enthusiastic Support Worker looking for a new opportunity, this is a fantastic chance to develop your social care career in the community and to support children and their families to live life, their way at home.
About the role
As a Support Worker within our disability services team, you will:
- Support children and young adults with intellectual and/ or physical disabilities, to live well at home, as well as outside the home in their local community by providing high-quality support in line with their individual needs, sensory profile, and communication style.
- Build warm, stable, and understanding relationships that help the child / young adult feel safe and grounded.
- Support daily routines such as meals, personal care, recreation, community activities, and school transitions.
- Implement strategies designed by the social care lead, behaviour specialist and wider MDT that support wellbeing, coping, nutrition, skills development and communication.
- Engage in team meetings, reflective practice, and supervision.
- Contribute to the overall quality and safety of the service through consistent teamwork, communication and documentation.
Benefits of the role
Competitive pay and benefits
Pay that reflects your qualifications and experience. Travel allowance.
Continuous Professional Development
Opportunities to progress your career with Ireland’s largest provider of home support.
Flexible working
Work on weekdays, weekends, full-time or part time, supporting your work-life balance.
Comprehensive support
Ongoing social care management support and supervision.
Great work environment
Respectful, supportive culture – work that genuinely changes lives.
Wellbeing benefits
Positive Behaviour Support supervision and access to Employee Assistance Service.
Essential criteria
We are looking for people who have a minimum of QQI Level 5 Major Award in one of the following:
- Healthcare support
- Social care
- Pre-nursing
- Childcare
- Psychology
You will also need a full Irish Driver’s Licence and be eligible to work in the State.
Please click the button below to send your application to our Cork office.
Training and support
We provide:
- Autism awareness training
- Crisis prevention and intervention training
- Seizure awareness training
- SAMS safe administration medications training
- Supported onboarding
We offer
- Competitive pay – reflecting your qualifications and experience
- Continuous Professional Development opportunities
- Ongoing Social Care Management support and supervision
- Flexible Working across weekdays and weekends with full and part-time hours available- supporting your work/ life balance
- Wellbeing benefits – such as Positive Behaviour Support supervision and access to Employee Assistance Service
- Travel allowance
Why join Dovida?
This service exists because children and young adults with disability can live their best lives at home, through quality home support.
By joining this team, you are part of a solution-focused, system-changing approach to home-based care.
If you want more than routine home care – and want to be part of something that matters – we would love to hear from you.
Click the button below to send your application to our Cork office.
