Staff Nurse / Enhanced Nurse (RNID)

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 Staff Nurse / Enhanced Nurse (RIND) to join our team in Enable Ireland Adult Services Limerick, Newcastlewest/Rathkeale.

Contract Type: Full Time Permanent Contract

Contract Hours: 37.5 Hours per week

Annual Leave Entitlement: Annual leave entitlement is 33 days pro rata per annum.

Salary Scale:

Enhanced Nurse €43,206 to €56,956 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI’s (Long Service Increments)

Staff Nurse €37,060 to €54,111 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.

Overview of the Post:

The role of the Staff / Enhanced Nurse is to work as part of a team within the adult day service to facilitate service owners with their daily programmes. This will also include providing nursing duties, assisting personal care needs, mobility, and supporting access to services in their community and on our virtual day service. The post holder will encourage and support opportunities to help develop a range of options for service owners in line with their person-centred plan.

Overview of Duties & Responsibilities:

Please see Job Description for full list of Duties & Responsibilities.

The successful candidate will have:

• Have a nursing RNID qualification validated for working in the Republic of Ireland
• Be registered in the Intellectual Disability Nurse Division of the live Register of Nurses kept by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
• 1 Year 16 weeks relevant nursing work experience after graduating (to be eligible for Enhanced Nurse role)
• Successful candidate must confirm annual registration with the NMBI to enable Ireland.
• Post holders must maintain annual registration with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
• Have the clinical and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
• Full clean driver’s licence and willingness to drive service transport.
• Must be eligible to work in state
• Basic IT skills.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience working with adults in a day service setting.
• 1 years’ experience working with adults with disabilities.
• Experience of working in community setting.

In the event of a high volume of applicants Desirable Criteria may be applied in the short listing process.

2026 New graduates eligible to apply for Staff Nurse Position

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

Informal Queries: By email to Kathleen Sheahan CNM1 [email protected]

Closing date for applications: 4pm Friday 21st August 2026

Interview date: TBC

A panel may be formed from this vacancy for any similar vacancies, which may arise during the next 12 months.