Clinical Nurse Manager Medical Directorate University Hospital

Details of Service

University Hospital Kerry is the second largest of the Health Service Executive –South’s seven acute hospitals. The hospital provides acute general hospital services to the population of Co. Kerry (139,616) and additionally to a proportion of the populations of West Limerick and North Cork.

The hospital has 275 acute general beds; 50 Acute Psychiatric beds, 46 elderly continuing care beds and an Annual Budget of approximately 70 million. The hospital treats over 20,000 inpatients per annum and approximately 410000 patients attend the Outpatients Department Accident and Emergency attendances are over 34.000 annually.

University Hospital Kerry’s range and scope of services provided include:

• Emergency Medicine

• Ear nose and Throat Services

• General Medicine including Medicine of the Elderly& Endocrinology.

• General Surgery

• Endoscopy

• Adult Intensive Care

• Gynaecology(including Colposcopy, Menorrhagia, Fertility and Urodynamics)

• Obstetrics

• Oncology

• Orthopaedics

• Paediatrics including Special Care Baby Unit

• Audio logy

• Palliative Care

• Psychiatry

• Radiography, including C.T. Scanning Service

• Renal Dialysis Satellite Unit

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

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 became part of HSE South West health region on 3rd March 2025 and the transition to the new structures will continue throughout 2026.

Purpose of the Post

The post of CNM 1 is responsible for the management, care and treatment of service users, to ensure that optimum standard of care is provided within the designated area of responsibility. The CNM1 Medical Directorate plays a pivotal role in facilitating communication, managing services, planning of activity, ensuring quality assurance and planning staffing and resources in the unit.

The CMM1 will provide clinical and professional leadership in the development of the nursing team, including in-service training, orientation, induction and performance management of new staff; and clinical learning experience and supervision of student nurses. The CMM 1 role manages the care and treatment of service users and ensures the optimum standard of care is provided within the medical directorate.

The CMM1 will:

• Deputise in the absence of the CMM2.

• Be expected to provide clinical supervision and staff allocation in the absence of more senior staff.

Informal Enquiries

We welcome enquiries about the role.

Contact Sadie Evans Clinical Nurse Manager 3 University Hospital Kerry sadie.evans@hse.ie 0860408676 - for further information about the role

Contact Meagan McGlynn- People Resourcing, meagan.mcglynn@hse.ie– for enquiries relating to the recruitment process