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Health / Social Work Residential Health Care And Social Work Social Work Activities Without Accommodation 88.10 - Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
370 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 September 2017
Employment effect (start)
11 September 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
Homecare services provider Bluebird Care has announced that it will start recruiting for 370 new positions across its 26 Irish offices in the near future. The company is looking to hire mainly registered nurses and healthcare assistants, but other roles are also reported to be available. The new positions will be in locations such as Galway, Wexford and Dublin. It is not known by when the new positions will be filled.
Sources
11 September 2017: RTE
11 September 2017: Irish Examiner
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Bluebird Care, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 91882, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91882.
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