Tusla employs a large number of social workers, social care workers and business-support professionals from multiple career backgrounds and provides a wide range of promotional opportunities and career pathways for staff.
To read about the different jobs at Tusla click on the booklet below:
Social Workers: Provide a service that seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of service users through accessible and equitable person-centred support.
Social workers provide a frontline service within Tusla, responding to concerns reported to the Agency about the safety and wellbeing of children/young people. Social workers work directly with children and families and in partnership with other Tusla colleagues and external organisations to ensure that children are kept safe from harm and can reach their full potential within the family environment, wherever possible.
Social Care Workers: Provide care, protection, and support to children and families and often work in conjunction with a wider multidisciplinary team and other relevant agencies.
They can support social workers by working directly with children and families in the community, and to help deliver on the supports that are identified as needed. They can also provide care for children and young people in some instances where it is not possible for them to remain living at home and when they need to be placed in residential care.
Business Support: The frontline work carried out by Tusla social workers, social care workers and others is supported and made possible by a wide range of other professionals. Collectively, these can be referred to business Support. Business Support includes Clerical Officers who provide much-needed administrative assistance to staff teams. Business Support also includes roles that provide support in relation to Information Communication Technology (ICT), Finance, Communications, Human Resources, Legal, and Health and Safety.
Examples of other Tusla roles include:
Hear from some of the service users that have been helped by Tusla:
Contracts are available on a full-time, part-time, permanent and temporary basis.
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Positions are available in the 26 counties of Ireland, locally, regionally and at national level.
Tusla provides a crucial service to the 1.2 million children and their families living in Ireland. We are dedicated to working in partnership with children, families, and communities to ensure that children are supported, protected, and connected to people who can safeguard and promote their wellbeing.
Tusla is growing to deliver on this vision. We are working to ensure that our staff and leaders are supported and empowered to continuously learn and improve so that children, families and communities across Ireland will benefit from our service. The current workforce in Tusla stands at just over 5,000 people. Current projections, based on population growth, service demands, and a range of other factors indicate that the Tusla workforce will need to expand by 10 percent (or 500 people) over the next number of years.
Excellent employment opportunities exist across social work, social care, and Business Support. Tusla Child and Family Agency also recruits people with qualifications and experience in a wide range of areas such as ICT, finance, human resources, legal services and more.
If you would like to join us on this journey and make a difference in the lives of children, families and communities across Ireland please check our dedicated Careers Page.
Our staff at Tusla embody our core values and behaviours of trust, kindness, respect, and empowerment. Together, we want to build an organisation that is honest, truthful and responsible; that shows care and compassion; that treats people with dignity and fairness; and an organisation that is willing to go the extra mile to help someone achieve their best.
Tusla is an agency that reflects the multicultural world in which we now live, a world full of diverse languages, food, clothing, and beliefs… a vibrant melting pot where we can all learn from each other’s values and how we view the world around us.
Yes, we are different, but at heart we are people with hopes, dreams, fears and concerns for those who are dear to our hearts.We celebrate the global reach of our staff, who hail from 56 countries (see map), and who are making a difference in the lives of children and families living here from across the planet.
