Monday, 08.02.2010
Healthcare company creates 30 new Leinster jobs

Thirty new full-time and relief positions are to be created in Dublin and Laois by healthcare company Nua, in the areas of nursing, social care and clerical support, it was announced today.<br /><br />Nua Healthcare Services provides residential, respite and day services to individuals with Asperger Syndrome and learning disabilities. It currently employs over 60 full-time staff in the Kildare and Laois areas. <br /><br />The jobs will be filled by June of this year and will include 12 positions in a new adolescent facility in Co Laois set to open in two months' time, making it Nua's eighth in Ireland.<br /> <br />"This additional facility is much needed in Ireland; adolescents with high support needs can often be placed in adult psychiatric services or more worryingly, overseas in UK care providers," said Nua chief executive Edward Dunne.<br /><br />"There are a significant number of children with Asperger Syndrome receiving full time residential services in the UK and Wales due to a lack of services in the State."