Social Worker - Intellectual Disabilities

Social Worker – Adults Disabilities Service – Kilkenny

Our client provides a wide range of personal and social supports through day and residential services to adults with an intellectual disability in Kilkenny.

This role will involve some travel between services in Co. Kilkenny, a full drivers licence and access to a car is essential.

We are currently recruiting for a Social Worker for a 1-year fixed term contract position to cover maternity leave.

The role will involve working with adults from 18 – 65+ years requiring low to medium support.

As a Social Worker, the duties and responsibilities will include:

•Provide assessment, intervention and proactively provide personal and educational input into person centred program planning.

•Empower service users to advocate for themselves,

•Advocate on behalf of service users

•Provide support to and seek input from families and next of kin of service users

•Promote community participation and inclusion for service users

•Assist in goal setting and achievements for service users

•Liaise with other multi-disciplinary staff and agencies in order to meet the needs of each individual service user

This role will be a mix of working across residential and day centres and will also involve some outreach to adults living at home.

Interested candidates will have the following:

•A recognised qualification as a social worker and registration with CORU

•Some post graduate experience required, ideally within an intellectual disability service or working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

•A car and full drivers licence will be beneficial due to travel involved

For further information and a full job description, please email your c.v. to Apply or call Brian in confidence on Apply/ Apply