DML Health & Social Care Professions Regional Practice Development Co-ordinator

Please Note:

• CV's will not be accepted
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Informal Enquiries

Name: Mary McGrath, HSCP Regional Integration Development Lead

Email: mary.mcgratp2@hse.ie

Mobile: 086 8035574

Details of Service

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 fully 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 Dublin and Midlands health region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in:

Laois, Longford, Offaly, Dublin South West, Dublin West Dublin, Dublin South City

Kildare, West Wicklow, Westmeath

Hospital groups and Community Health Organisations

HSE Dublin and Midlands includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region. This includes:

Tallaght University Hospital, St James’s Hospital, Naas General Hospital, Childrens Health Ireland, The Coomhe, St Luke’s, Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar, Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise.

Community Healthcare Dublin South, Kildare and west Dublin

Counties Laois, Offaly, Westmeath and Longford.

Services in the Dublin and Midlands health region

HSE services that work together to provide healthcare to this region include:

Acute Hospitals, Primary care services, Older person’s services, Disability services, Mental Health services, Palliative care services, Social inclusion services, Public and private providers, Health and social care professionals, Voluntary sector services, Public health

HSCP Deliver – A strategic Guidance Framework for Health and Social Care Professions 2021 – 2026 sets out the direction for Health and Social Care Professions. It has been designed for action to enable HSCP, managers, leaders and policy makers to apply it in their own context, implementing in a way that supports local action on local priorities. HSCP Deliver sets out the full collective potential of the family of 26 Health and Social Care Professions and offers:

- A clear view on the impact on our health services and most importantly, the population served when HSCP work to their collective potential

- A description of the commitments that HSCP collectively make to delivering on that potential

- Details of the supports and actions required from colleagues and other specific relevant stakeholders to realise this potential.

The National HSCP Office reports to the Chief Clinical Officer and is led by the National HSCP Lead who is also Health & Social Care Professions Advisor to the CEO. The role of the National HSCP Office within the central organisation is to strategically lead and support HSCP to maximise their potential and achieve the greatest impact for the design, planning, management and delivery of people centred, integrated care in close collaboration with HSCP and other stakeholders at every level, in each health region.

Health and Social Care Professions (HSCP) is a term used to encompass a diverse, highly educated and skilled range of professionals with significant contributions to make to the health, care, wellbeing and quality of life of the population. The Health and Social Care Professions (HSCP) are the second largest clinical grouping of the healthcare workforce. There are 26 Health and Social Care Professions providing interventions in therapeutic, rehabilitative, re-enablement, health and social care and diagnostic services. HSCP work in all settings including acute, community, disability, specialist, mental health, primary care, residential and services for older persons. There are over 20,000 Health and Social Care Professionals employed by the HSE representing 25% of the clinical workforce and 14% of the overall health services workforce.