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Rural Social Scheme

Ballyhoura Development employs over 60 people on the Rural Social Scheme (RSS), which is an employment support scheme designed to support farmers and fisherpersons who are in receipt of long-term social welfare payments. RSS employees are employed for 19.5 hours per week to provide certain services of benefit to rural communities, which may include:

  • Maintaining and Enhancing Waymarked Ways
  • Energy Conservation work for the elderly and less well off
  • Village and Countryside Enhancement projects
  • Social Care and Care of the elderly, community care for both Pre-school and After-school groups
  • Environmental maintenance and Caretaking of community and sporting facilities
  • Projects relating to not-for-profit Cultural and Heritage Centres
  • Appropriate community projects identified during the course of the Scheme
  • Community Administration/Clerical work

Eligibility

To be eligible to work on the Rural Social Scheme, you must be an active farmer or the spouse, daughter, son, brother or sister of an active farmer.

You must also:

  1. Farming more than 1 hectare
  2. Have an active herd number
  3. Be in receipt of a qualifying means-tested social welfare payment such as:
    • Farm Assist
    • Jobseekers Allowance
    • Widow(er)s Pension
    • Disability Allowance
    • Adult Dependents

    Current Vacancies

    At present, we are particularly interested in recruiting participants who have skills in the areas of:

    • Community Support Administration and IT
    • Outdoor Construction Projects
    • Building Maintenance and Caretaking of Community Facilities
    • Craft Trades
    • Machinery Operation (relevant ticket/license required)
    • Van Driving
    • Environmental Enhancement

    Contact Eugene O'Donnell at [email protected] / 087-6558731 or John Scanlan at [email protected] / 087-6528105 for more information on the RSS.

    Full details of the Scheme are available on the below link:

    Rural Social Scheme


    Check out some of the current positions on the scheme:

    Caretaker - Coote Hall, Kilmallock

    Caretaker - Coote Hall, Kilmallock

    This Role Includes: Answering the phone, assisting community members who drop in, setting up for meetings, cleaning and tidying. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Sean - Helping Hands Team

    Sean - Helping Hands Team

    This Role Includes: Power washing, cutting grass and maintaining hedges for vulnerable clients. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Marie - Farm Assistant, Doon Social Farm

    Marie - Farm Assistant, Doon Social Farm

    This Role Includes: Caring for the animals on the farm, maintaining the crops, collecting and packing eggs, interacting and engaging with service users. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Patrick - Farm Assistant, Doon Social Farm

    Patrick - Farm Assistant, Doon Social Farm

    This Role Includes: Caring for the animals on the farm, maintaining the crops, collecting and packing eggs, interacting and engaging with service users. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Tom - Tidy Towns Assistant in Murroe

    Tom - Tidy Towns Assistant in Murroe

    This Role Includes: Maintaining approach roads in the town, cutting grass, planting flowers and collecting rubbish. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Mike - Helping Hands Team

    Mike - Helping Hands Team

    This Role Includes: Power washing, cutting grass and maintaining hedges for vulnerable clients. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Sadie - Retail Assistant in St Vincent De Paul Shop in Castleconnell

    Sadie - Retail Assistant in St Vincent De Paul Shop in Castleconnell

    This Role Includes: Tidying the shop, stacking shelves, pricing items, sorting through donations, working on the till, assisting customers. Read more

    Published: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

    Our Story: The Ballyhoura Development Rural Social Scheme

    Watch: How female participants of the Ballyhoura Development Rural Social Scheme benefited from working in administration and community-based roles of the scheme. Read more

    Published: 4th January, 2021

    Updated: 28th February, 2023

    Author: Jana Mannion

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