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GALWAY\nJOB REF: 106153\nDESCRIPTION AND VISION OF SERVICES\nCorlann - West Region provide a community based, person centred service focusing on the needs and abilities of children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The vision of the service is to support people with intellectual disabilities to achieve a full and valued life in their community, in line with best practice both nationally and internationally. Working in partnership with each person supported by services, we aim to create opportunities for people supported by services to have ordinary life experiences and to be closely connected to family and friends. We are committed to supporting people to live a life of their choosing.\nOrchardServices provide a range of community-based services including day, residential, respite, community outreach, family support and a range of multidisciplinary support services. People are supported in various types of day settings - day centres, supported employment, social and micro enterprises, training and education and these can be in groups or individualised. People are supported in residential settings in their own homes in the community individually and in groups with different staffing support levels depending on their levels of disability. Our Services are person centred focusing on the needs and abilities of adults with intellectual disabilities and autism. We wish to create opportunities for people who use our service to have valued social roles in their communities and to form friendships.\nWe wish to recruit innovative, creative and motivated people who will relish the opportunity to assist in achieving this vision as part of a team. We are looking for people who will be flexible and dynamic, can adapt to the needs of particular individuals they support and be open to change.\nRole:\nThe role of the CMN1/Social Care Leader is an important role in the management of the day to day organisation of an integrated service providing day service support. The successful candidate must provide leadership in the development of the service in line with Personal Outcomes Measures, HIQA standards, new directions and future service requirements.\nIt is the Team Leader’s responsibility to ensure that the life of each individual reflects the Organisations core values by supporting each individual’s development in the areas of:\n· Dignity and respect\n· Promoting Independence in the area of personal development, educational, employment, life skills and day to day living skills\n· Developing friendships and relationships\n· Making choices\n· Community Networking\n· Whilst ensuring the physical, medical, social and emotional wellbeing outcomes of the people supported are observed.\nReporting/Responsible To:\nTeam Manager/Service Coordinator or delegate/Area Manager.\nQualifications/Experience:\nA relevant 3rd level qualification in the Social Care or Health Sector e.g. Nursing qualification and current Live Register Certificate from NMBI or Social Care qualification and be registered in the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board - CORU Or Be eligible under the Section 91 (existing practitioner) route for registration in the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board -CORU (evidence of application status is necessary)\nAn appropriate Health Management qualification is desirable (QQI Level 6). On appointment, if the successful candidate does not already hold such a qualification, they must undertake to complete an appropriate management course within a specified time-frame.\nPrevious experience of effectively managing a staff team and demonstrating proven ability to pro-actively lead, motivate, empower and achieve results through people is an advantage.\nA minimum of three 3 years’ post qualification experience, working with people with an Intellectual Disability is essential.\nDemonstrate a clear commitment to community integration and active citizenship for all people with disabilities with experience in the area of human rights and advocacy.\nExperience of working in the area of autism and behaviours of concern would be an advantage.\nSkills:\nCandidates should be able to demonstrate leadership and communication and team working skills.\nKnowledge and experience managing people’s well-being using an evidence based approach to person centred planning e.g. Personal Outcome Measures.\nKnowledge and understanding of the National Standards for Residential Services for Children and Adults with Disabilities, the Health Act 2007 (Care and Support of Residents in Designated Centres for Persons (Children and Adults with Disabilities) Regulations 2013 and New Directions for Day Services.\nMust have the ability to exercise good judgement, discretion and confidentiality, be creative and self-motivated, communicate effectively in both written and verbal forms and co-operate in a team environment with a person-centred philosophy\nA full clean manual Driving Licence, which qualifies you to drive manual transmission vehicles on Irish Roads and use of your own car is an essential requirement.\nFluency in verbal and written English is an essential requirement of this post.\nWorking Hours:\nContracted hours will depend on the grade of the successful candidate - i.e. 78 hours a fortnight (SCL grade) or 75 hours a fortnight (CNM1 grade) rostered flexibly on a 7 day duty roster.\nThe Team leader will work as a frontline member of the team with protected time to carry out specific team leader duties.\nIn addition, a night duty commitment may be a requirement of posts in residential services for which the appropriate allowance will be paid.\nAn on call commitment is an integral part of this role. On call is allocated on a roster basis among the Orchard Services management Team.\nCorlann’s model of service is based on Personal Outcome Measures requiring employees to be flexible in their working hours to provide a quality service delivery for each individual.\nAnnual Leave:\nLeave will be granted according to the agreed leave assigned to the grade of the successful candidates i.e. Social Care or CNM1. Annual leave must be planned in advance with the Area Manager / Service Coordinator to ensure appropriate and adequate cover is provided for the service.\nRemuneration:\nBased on the salary scale attached to the grade of the successful candidates i.e. Social Care Leader or CNM1.\nTenure:\nPermanent, Full-Time and Pensionable.\nProbation:\nA probationary period of nine months from the date of appointment applies to the post. The employment may be terminated at any time during the probationary period should the employer find that the appointee is unsuitable to continue employment. The probation period may be extended at the Employer’s discretion.\nTo view Full Job Description, please find atatched.\nInformal enquiries to Margaret Kearney, Area Manager or Michelle Martyn (West Region) Service Coordinator on 091 631530.\nClosing Date for receipt of completed Application Forms & CV’s on-line is 5pm on Wednesday, the 18th of November, 2026\nInterview date is to be confirmed.\nCorlann is an equal opportunities employer","description_format":"text","description_chars":7303,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Annual leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Nonprofits & Foundations","Disability Support Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T10:24:56Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"IE","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Irish employment permits in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Employment permits","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-11T07:38:50+00:00","sources":["Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: employment permits issued to companies"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/corlann-community-team-leader-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/corlann-community-team-leader-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T16:25:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31029,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3169611},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3169611"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcorlann-community-team-leader-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcorlann-community-team-leader-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcorlann-community-team-leader-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/corlann-community-team-leader-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcorlann-community-team-leader-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3798341}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"corlann.ie","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3798341},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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