Clinical Nurse Manager, Antimicrobial Resistance And Infection Control Health Informatics

Details of Service

The HSE have recently undergone large scale restructuring and by September 2025, the transition to HSE Health Region will be complete. The establishment of the Health Regions has resulted in new Regional Executive Teams being formed, who have assumed managerial responsibility for existing functions in hospital and community. HSE South West Region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services to a population in excess of 700,000 people across the counties of Cork and Kerry.

The changes in healthcare governance arrangements are designed to make our services easier to navigate for people, to facilitate more integrated care, stronger accountability and greater transparency across the Region. This in turn aims to foster change and innovation at a local level to deliver high-quality services to populations based on their needs, making our service a better place to work for our staff.

Six Health Regions have been established within the HSE, on the basis of the geographical boundaries agreed by the Government in July 2019 and they will be operational from 2024.

Each Health Region will be tasked with population specific planning resourcing and delivery of health and social care services for the needs of its unique population. This will result in improved accountability and governance in terms of finance and performance, while also bringing decision-making closer to the frontline.

Health Regions will enable and empower staff to provide services that are:

• Integrated, locally planned and delivered

• Easier to access and navigate

• Available closer to home

Health Regions are geographically-based units with clearly defined populations. They align community and hospital services within specific areas. The HSE will retain a strong but leaner central organisation, with more service provision developed at a local level.

The HSE South West health region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in Cork and Kerry. HSE South West includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region.

This includes:

• South / South West Hospital Group S/SWHG

• Cork Kerry Community Healthcare CKCH

• Midlands Louth Meath Community Health Organisation

• Community Healthcare Organisation Dublin North City and County

The Department of Population and Public Health is also now aligned with this health region

Services in the South West health region:

HSE Services working within this region include:

• Acute Hospitals

• Primary care services

• Community services

• Social care services

• Health and social care professionals

• Voluntary sector services

South / South West Hospital Group and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare will become part of HSE South West health region from 3rd March 2025.

Details of Service

The primary role of the post holder is to deliver a coordinated approach to the implementation of National Clinical Surveillance System for Infection Control (ICNET) project in hospital and community areas throughout the HSE South West Region. The post holder will also assist with other relevant projects as assigned by the DON, HSE South West. There are seven acute hospitals in the HSE South West Region. These are as follows:

· Cork University Hospital

· Cork University Maternity Hospital

· Mercy University Hospital

· University Hospital Kerry

· South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital

· Mallow General Hospital

· Bantry General Hospital

ICNET National Clinical Surveillance Platform

The HSE acute and community services, eHealth and Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (AMRIC) have introduced the National Clinical Surveillance System for Infection and Prevention Control (IPC) in a number of acute sites throughout the HSE. The introduction of this software to the HSE South West Region will help support surveillance of Health Care Associated Infection (HCAI) and will have a key role in supporting Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) teams and functions. These include the management of clinical, laboratory and administrative information around IPC cases and outbreaks. This information will help prevent and reduce HCAIs as well as controlling antibiotic-resistant organisms, through timely intervention and planned prevention. The proposed solution will bring together laboratory and patient information by incorporating interfaces from the Laboratory and Patient Administration Systems (PAS).

Informal Enquiries

We welcome enquiries about the role.

Contact Sinead Horgan –Director of Nursing, Sinead.horgan@hse.ie /0867872138 - for further information about the role

Contact Ann-Marie O’Keeffe- People Resourcing, Annmarie.okeeffe2@hse.ie – for enquiries relating to the recruitment process