DSE1092026: Children’s Disability Network Manager, Bainisteoir Líonra Míchumais Leanaí

The Role

The Children’s Disability Network Manager (CDNM) is responsible to the Lead Agency for the development of Children’s Disability Services within a designated area in line with National Policy. The CDNM is the accountable and responsible person for ensuring the delivery of high quality, safe, integrated children’s disability services to the population of the Community Healthcare Network. This will be provided in accordance with legislative and service delivery frameworks and requirements, within the resources allocated.

Using the key principles of the Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People programme as a model of service which is based on family centred practice and interdisciplinary team working, the CDNM will have full responsibility and accountability for managing resources including all staff the children’s disability staff within the Children’s Disability Network.

The CDNM will provide day to day operational line management for children’s disability staff and provide clinical assurance regarding the professional supervision of each clinician working in that team.

The CDNM will be supported in this regard by an agreed evidence based clinical governance structure within the Lead Agency or Community Healthcare Organisation.

The Person

1. Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc.

(i) Have a relevant professional qualification in Nursing or a Health and Social Care profession and where appropriate, have statutory registration or professional registration / accreditation.

And

(ii) Have a minimum of five years post qualification work experience including three years working in or managing the delivery of children’s disability therapeutic services.

And

(iii) Have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and management ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

Note that appointment to and continuation in posts that require statutory registration is dependent upon the post holder maintaining annual registration in the relevant division of the register maintained by CORU / IMNO

2. Health

A candidate for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

3. Character

Each candidate for and any person holding the office must be

of good character.

For further information please see the below job specification.

The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties, as appropriate to the post, which may be assigned to him / her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

We welcome enquiries about the role:

For further information & informal enquiries about the role contact:

Carlow, Kilkenny & South Tipperary

Name: Maeve Cleary, General Manager

Email: [email protected] | Phone: 087 7976134

Waterford & Wexford

Name: Paul Goff, General Manager

Email: [email protected] | Phone: 087 2791583

Dublin South and Wicklow

Name: Caoileann Cassidy, General Manager

Email: caoileann.cassidy @hse.ie | Phone: 086 0203625

For informal enquiries relation to the recruitment process contact:

Name: Reymary Reyes, Recruitment Lead

HSE Dublin and South East

Email: [email protected]| 087 3421382

Application Process:

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Closing date: Thursday 5th of November 2026 @ 12 noon

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