Cavan to benefit from home care jobs announcement

It's the latest batch of care jobs announced for the region.

Home care provider Connected Health has announced 500 new jobs to be based across the country, including in Cavan.

Fifty of the roles are to be based in the county.

The new care assistant posts will be recruited for roles in community home care and nursing home facilities in Leinster and parts of south Ulster. The company is also creating a number of new roles in administration and management as part of the recruitment drive, mostly based in Dublin.

The majority of the new full and part-time roles will be based in Cavan, Monaghan, Dublin, Wicklow, Laois, Offaly, Louth, Meath, Westmeath and Kildare. The company says 50 of the roles will be located in Cavan.

Connected Health has announced the creation of another 500 new care worker posts in Northern Ireland, bringing the total island-wide job creation by the company to 1,000 in 2022.

A new, purpose built headquarters has also been announced by Connected Health, to be located at the Belgard Road in Tallaght. Fourteen management and administration posts are being created there.

Paula Cahoon, Connected Health’s Operations Director for Ireland, said the new recruitment drive will be completed over the next six to nine months.

“We currently deliver 4.2 million homecare visits per year and demand for care assistants to deliver our high quality brand of home care in their communities continues to rise exponentially across Ireland.

“The goal of this recruitment campaign is to fill 500 roles but if more care assistants are available, we are in a position to increase that number, such is the high demand.”

This week’s announcement follows those of Castleblayney based Irish HomeCare last June and Home Instead last August. They announced 190 new home care jobs for the region last summer.