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In Gheel, we focus on supporting individuals with autism through their life journey and enabling them to have fulfilling life experiences, while having autonomy and control over their choices and decisions. Gheel Autism Services provides a wide range of services for adults with autism including day and vocational opportunities, outreach support, and a variety of supported living options. Across our services we consider how each person thinks, learns, and processes information to develop a personalised plan of support. Considering individuals strengths and motivations, we enable people to obtain meaningful outcomes. Our committed practitioners receive regular training and they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to enable each individual to have positive and meaningful life experiences. All staff are involved in changing the culture of supporting people into a more inclusive, independence-focused style of support – where people are encouraged to be partners in, not recipients of, their service delivery.

Benefits Include:

•    Access to Health Insurance

•    Access to Educational Support Scheme

•    Company pension with company contribution (including income protection and

        death-in-service benefits)

•    Employee Assistant Programme

•    Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave

•    Up to 25 days of Annual leave

•    Bike to Work scheme

•    Training and development (CPD)

•    Option to join the Health Service credit union

Care Assistant/ Support Worker – Residential Services, Specified Purpose Contract, Full-Time (1.00 WTE) – Maynooth, Co. Kildare

This residential service, in North Kildare, is based just outside Maynooth town Centre. Our Service Users attend here for community based residential supports. These are busy homes with individuals supported enjoying a mixture of home and community-based activities.  As the ideal candidate you will be proactive and imaginative when it comes to service provision.  Excellent report writing skills, experience, and the ability to work on your own initiative are a must.  

Staff must have the awareness and skillset to support those who experience sensory differences, therefore, enabling them to maximise their experiences both within their own home and the community. Staff are required to promote the wellbeing of all those supported, across all locations ensuring that they achieve a high quality of life while working under HIQA guidelines and standards.

Practitioners will be expected to produce, implement and evaluate practical resources and strategies to support a person with Autism’s communication and thinking, alongside assessment documentation for social, healthcare and personal development. Staff will also maintain a comprehensive understanding of the working file/support plan and supporting tools ensuring that details collated are of value and then utilised to support and develop progress plans.

FETAC level 5 (Major Award)Qualification in Social Care or Qualification in Health or Social care is essential.