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Social Care Worker 

Job Requirement:

By completing this application, you will help us initiate the recruitment process promptly. We will ask for your employment status, career overview, location preference, availability, and to provide all required documentation to process your application

Career History

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Your Career History must:

  • Cover all employment, education, placements, periods of unemployment and any other activities from age 16 to the present.
  • Be completed in MM/YY format.
  • Be in chronological order.
  • Account for all periods of time, including any gaps.
  • Match the dates and information shown on your supporting documents, including education and references.

Photo Identification Please provide a clear copy of one of the following:

  • Passport
  • Driving Licence (If you have a full license, please provide)

Proof of Address Please provide a recent utility bill or bank statement showing your current residential address. Work Permit / IRP Card (if applicable) Please provide a copy of your current permission to work. If you have applied to renew your IRP, please provide a printout of the renewal confirmation email showing:

  • Your name
  • Date and time of application
  • Application reference (where applicable)
  • Relevant authority email address with time and date stamp of receipt of email

Qualification Documents Please provide:

  • Qualification certificates
  • Final Academic transcripts for each year
  • QQI Recognition/Comparability Certificate (where applicable)

Mandatory Training Please provide copies of:

  • Introduction to Children First
  • Implementing Children First
  • eLearning Programme for Mandated Persons
  • Children First in Action
  • Child Sexual Exploitation
  • Data Protection / GDPR Training

Additional Training Please provide copies of:

  • First Aid Responder
  • Fire Safety
  • Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), PMAV or equivalent Crisis Intervention training

Garda Vetting Form

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Garda Vetting Form 

  • The form is completed in BLOCK CAPITALS.
  • It is completed using blue or black ballpoint pen.
  • All writing is clear and legible.
  • Your current address matches your proof of address exactly.
  • The position applied for is written in full with no abbreviations.
  • Your email address is written clearly, as your National Vetting Bureau invitation will be sent to this address.

Please note that the original completed Garda Vetting form must be posted to or dropped to the office in person:

Spring Life Limited
21 Cluain Ard
Kilmead
Co. Kildare
R14 FD85

Photocopies, scanned copies and emailed copies of the Garda Vetting form cannot be accepted.

Police Clearance Certificates

Please provide a Police Clearance Certificate (or equivalent) from every country in which you have lived for six months or more since the age of 16, where applicable.Professional ReferencesPlease provide details of three professional referees, including your most recent employer.Where possible, please provide a Statement of Employment from each employer.If a Statement of Employment is not available, your referee must:

  • Be able to verify your employment.
  • Ue an official company email address when providing your reference.
  • Be someone who supervised or managed your work in a professional capacity.

Personal references will not be accepted.Before submitting your documents, please ensure that:

  • Your dates of employment and education are consistent across your CV, Career History and qualification documents.
  • All documents are clear, complete and readable.
  • Any documents not in English are accompanied by a certified English translation.

Once we have received your documents, we will review your compliance file and contact you if any further information is required