Become a Health Care Assistant with North Tipperary Disability Support Service

Duties of a Healthcare Assistant

• Support people to live independently in their own homes.

•  Promote community participation and social inclusion.

• Assist people to attend appointments and activities.
• Support individuals to achieve their personal goals.
• Promote health, wellbeing, choice and independence.

These aren’t reasons printed on a careers page. They’re the quiet recognition of what actually happens when you show up to work that matters.

Meaningful and rewarding work — this is the thing most places promise and few deliver. NTDSS asks you to do something that counts. Not busy work dressed up as purpose. Actual work that changes whether someone’s life gets better or stays broken. That weight, that clarity, that’s what keeps people rooted.

Flexible working opportunities — but this one carries something deeper than scheduling. It’s an organisation willing to trust you. To believe that your life has shape and rhythm that matters as much as the work does. That’s rarer than you’d think. It says something about their character that they’d rather adapt than demand.

Supportive and person-centred — the people who stay longest aren’t the ones who found the easiest job. They’re the ones who found people who actually see them. Who remember they’re human. Who know that carrying difficult work requires someone to carry you sometimes too. That’s a culture that holds.

Opportunity to make a real difference — this one sits at the centre. Because it’s true. You’re not managing metrics or optimising systems for their own sake. You’re in someone’s corner when it matters. That clarity, that direct line between your effort and an actual human outcome — that’s what separates work from calling. 

Work within your local community across North Tipperary — there’s something particular about this one. You’re not distant. You’re rooted where you live. You see the people you help at the shops. You know the place.

That connection — where work and home and community are woven together instead of split apart — changes everything about how the work lands. NTDSS isn’t selling you a job. It’s offering you the chance to belong to something that actually works the way it says it does.

(067) 34202

manager@ntdss.ie