Nua Healthcare in Naas set for jobs bonanza

A Co Kildare care provider group is set to create a jobs boom.

Nua Healthcare, is to create 800 new jobs here over the next three years through the planned development of new residential and day care facilities.

300 of the positions are to be delivered this year.

The new roles will be across social care, nursing and administrative support staff.

Nua has opened a new facility at Glenview House in Kilmallock, Co Limerick. This new six-bed facility, which will be staffed by up to 30 social care professionals on rota, will provide 24-hour care to adults with special needs with complex support requirements.

Glenview House is the first of seven facilities to open in the greater Munster region and marks the expansion of Nua outside of Leinster.

The growth plans will see a further 20 residential centres and associated day facilities being developed, increasing Nua's residential care capacity up to 280 individuals by 2019.

The care provider currently employs over 800 social care professionals and provides 160 residential and respite beds in 28 locations nationally (including Kildare, Laois, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath, Dublin, Tipperary, Limerick and Cork).