DML Clinical Nurse Specialist, Palliative Care

(Please note CV's will not be accepted . Ony Rezoomo online applications will be accepted)

Informal Enquiries

Aideen Heneghan - Interim Director of Nursing St Brigid’s Hospice The Curragh Co Kildare.

Email: Aideen.heneghan@hse.ie

Mobile: 086 7810471

Location of Post

St Brigid’s Hospice The Curragh Co Kildare

There is currently one permanent whole-time vacancy available in the home care team St Brigid’s Hospice Curragh Co Kildare.

A panel may be formed as a result of this campaign for Clinical Nurse Specialist General, (Palliative Care) St Brigid’s Hospice Curragh Co Kildare from which Dublin and Midlands current and future, permanent and specified purpose vacancies of full or part-time duration may be filled.

Details of Service

The Home Care Team in St Brigid’s Hospice provide a valued palliative care service to people in the community in their home.The team structure is composed of clinical nurse specialists who provide care to the person in the home and is clinically led by the palliative care consultant. The team has a large geographical spread serving all of Kildare and West Wicklow and is based in St Brigid’s Hospice, The Curragh, Co. Kildare.

The palliative home care service is a five day service with weekend service for planned essential calls in the patient’s place of residence. This may be the patients home, community hospital or private nursing home. In the community, the specialist palliative care team work closely with the General Practitioner, Public Health Nurse, community hospitals and nursing homes. Future developments for the service are in line with the national service plan 2025.

Community Health aims to deliver an integrated healthcare system which is responsive to people’s needs at the lowest level of complexity for the local population. Focusing on service delivery and decision making at local level informed by national frameworks, allows the HSE to:

· provide better direct accountability;

· provide for increased decision making at

· local area level; and

· Deliver services in the community through an integrated management structure.

By working together, the HSE plan seeks to deliver:

· A healthier start for children and reduced health inequities

· Reduced risk factors for chronic disease focusing on harmful alcohol use and rising obesity rates

· Increased community services and support to live independently in your own home or in the community

· Improved access to tests and specialist appointments, closer to home

· Reduced waiting times for diagnostic tests, outpatient appointments, in-patient and day case procedures

· Mental health support that aims to keep you well and responds quickly when you need it

· More person centred support for people with disabilities to live full, independent lives