Clinical Nurse Manager, Informatics, Technology And Transformation

Details of Service

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for the provision of all health and personal social care services in the Republic of Ireland. With an annual budget in 2024 of €24 billion and over 150,000 employed in the HSE and the Section 38 Agencies with which the HSE has Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the HSE is the largest employer in the State and the largest of any public sector organisation. The Health Regions Implementation involves the internal reorganisation of the HSE into six operational regions with responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services within their respective defined geographies. While the full implementation will be a multi-year journey, the Health Region approach was stood up in March 2024 and will continue to progress throughout 2024 and 2025. These new arrangements are fundamental to the delivery of Sláintecare reforms and aim to improve the health service’s ability to deliver timely integrated care to patients and service users, care that is planned and funded in line with their needs at regional and local level. In addition, the following will be delivered:

· Alignment of hospital-based and community-based services to deliver joined-up, integrated care closer to home.

· Clarification and strengthening of corporate and clinical governance and accountability at all levels.

· A population-based approach to service planning and delivery.

· A balanced national consistency with local autonomy to maintain consistent quality of care across the country.

· An efficient, highly productive and transparent health and social care service with aligned incentives to provide people with timely access to safe, high quality integrated care.

· Support for local and regional innovations in service improvement for adoption across regions or at national level as appropriate. The changes in healthcare governance arrangements are being designed to make our services easier to navigate for people, and to facilitate more integrated care, stronger accountability, and greater transparency across the sector.

The National Digital for Care 2030 strategy, launched by the Department of Health and HSE,

sets out a transformational roadmap to digitise Ireland’s health and social care system.

To empower patients with access to their own health data, modernise care delivery through integrated digital systems and improve safety, efficiency, and outcomes across all care settings

The EHR is a core pillar of the Digital for Care strategy. It will provide a comprehensive, lifelong digital record of every citizen’s health journey, accessible across all health and social care settings and key features include:

• Unified patient record: Includes clinical notes, medications, allergies, test results, and care plans.
• Interoperability: Enables seamless data sharing between hospitals, GPs, community services, and pharmacies.
• Real-time access: Supports safer, faster clinical decision-making.
• Patient access: Citizens will eventually be able to view and manage their own records
• Comprehensive Patient View: Tracks a patient’s journey across all care settings.
• Improved Coordination: Enables seamless sharing of data across disciplines and services.
• Efficiency & Safety: Reduces duplication, improves documentation, and supports safer clinical decisions
• Patient Empowerment: Patients will eventually access and manage their own health data.

The CNM2 will be a pivotal role in the region as Ireland advances its Digital for Care 2024–2030 strategy.

Purpose of the Post

The National Electronic Health Record (EHR) will be a digital system that holds a person’s full health and social care information in one place. It will replace paper files and local IT systems by allowing staff to record, update and access all health information in one place.

The EHR will be used across all parts of the health service, so staff can access the same up-to-date information, no matter where someone is receiving care.

The Clinical Nurse manager in health informatics will support the development and implementation of the national EHR in the region and will work outside the traditional boundaries of the acute setting to ensure information flow is patient centred and is in the right place at the right time for the right patient. The CNM2 Health Informatics will have a regional impact on digital health strategy and activities and impacts nursing and midwifery informatics in group networked community settings.

The post holder will ensure that the nursing and midwifery workforce is enabled to effectively contribute to, and benefit from, the implementation of integrated digital care records.

Informal Enquiries

We welcome enquiries about the role.

Contact Ms Deirdre Feehely–Director of Nursing & Midwifery, Transformation and Technology, deirdre.feehely@hse.ie 0871637062- for further information about the role

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