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, a full drivers licence and access to a car is essential.

We are currently recruiting for a Social Worker for a permanent position and also a 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