Social Worker - Intellectual Disabilities - Galway

Social Worker – Adults Disabilities Service – Galway

We are seeking to recruit a Social Worker for a permanent position with our client, an organization providing a wide range of services to adults and children with intellectual disability and autism across Galway City and Count including day, residential, short breaks, community supports, rehabilitative training and multi-disciplinary supports.  

The role will involve working with adults from 18 – 65+ years requiring low to high support and/or complex needs.

As a Social Worker, you will be responsible for:

•Providing assessment, interventions and proactively providing personal and educational input into person centred program planning.

•Empowering service users to advocate for themselves where appropriate

•To work as part of a number of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams, to promote the best interests of service users and their families.

•Advocate on behalf of service users

•Promote community participation and inclusion for service users

•Assist in goal setting and achievements for 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