Care company Connected Health is to create 500 jobs in the Republic of Ireland, bringing to 1,000 the number of new jobs it has committed to creating in Ireland in 2022.
The company has also announced a new Republic of Ireland headquarters for the company in Tallaght.
The new roles will be based in counties Dublin, Wicklow, Monaghan, Cavan, Laois, Offaly, Louth, Meath, Westmeath and Kildare, and will be a mixture of care assistant posts in community homecare and nursing home facilities, and a number of new roles in administration and management.
The company expects recruitment for the new roles to be completed within six to nine months.
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"We currently deliver 4.2 million homecare visits per year and demand for care assistants to deliver our high-quality brand of homecare in their communities continues to rise exponentially across Ireland," said Paula Cahoon, Connected Health's operations director for 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.”
The company has made a major investment in its new Tallaght base, which will also act as a central training hub.
The news of its expansion comes following the announcement by the company on Monday of 500 new jobs in Northern Ireland, with both full- and part-time roles on offer in the coming 12 months.
Connected Health also adopted the London living wage rate for all care workers across its Northern Ireland operations, offering the higher rate of pay to attract and retain more homecare workers as a general staffing shortage continues to cripple the social care and healthcare sectors.
