Tusla Residential Care provide interventions to support the wellbeing of young people aged 13 to 17. By joining the Residential Care team, you will deliver care to young people using therapeutic connections and care models. Our teams encourage positive physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing and the development of positive attachments through relationship building.

Tusla is recruiting Social Care Workers, Social Care Leaders, Deputy Social Care Managers and Social Care Managers for our Residential and Special Care services across Ireland.
 

 

Children’s Residential Services aim to provide a physically, emotionally and psychologically safe space in which children and young people can heal, develop and move forward in their lives. 

While the majority of children and young people placed in Children’s Residential Services are there because of family problems and others have experienced neglect or some other form of abuse, most are placed in Residential Care because of their behaviour is too challenging to be managed in any other care setting.

It is also the case that some young people actually choose a placement in Residential Care because they do not wish to be placed with any family but their own.  Other children and young people are placed in Children’s Residential Centres while Social Workers work with their families and others to determine where their needs can best be met into the future.
 

  

Young people referred to Special Care Services are between 11 and 17 years, very vulnerable, sometimes very challenging, with complex psychological and sociological profiles, high numbers of previous placements which have frequently broken down.

Special Care is short term, stabilising and safe care in a secured therapeutic environment. The aim of the Special Care intervention is to provide an individualised programme of support and skilled therapeutic intervention which will enable the child/young person to stabilise and then move to a less secure placement based on the assessed needs of that child/young person. 

 

  

                                               
          

   

                                              
 

  

                                       

                                    

  

Tusla is the Child and Family agency for Ireland. Tusla does vital work in supporting children, young people, and families. Tusla has ambitious goals to support the continued delivery of high quality services to meet the needs of those who need to access their services.  

Tusla promote a positive culture to ensure all team members can respond to services users, feel supported and have pride in their work.