Dskww/ / Director Of Nursing Band, Older Persons Services

Please note:

• CV’s will NOT be accepted.
• All correspondence will be via Rezoomo.

Informal Enquiries:

We welcome enquiries about the role. For further information about the role, please contact;

Name: Eileen Burke

Grade: General Manager, Older Persons Services

Email: eileen.burke3@hse.ie

Tel: 087 144 5843 or 045 880 400

Purpose of the Post:

The appointed person will be the Person in Charge (PIC) of ensuring that residential care provided to older persons in the unit is of a high quality and attained as effectively and efficiently as possible within available resources.

• The Director of Nursing will be responsible for the overall management of the Nursing service for Services for the Older Person in line with HSE Corporate Governance. S/he will provide strategic leadership, operating in accordance with the policies of the HSE and in collaboration with other professionals and service managers in achieving service goals.
• The Director of Nursing has a pivotal role in creating the vision and culture for the service. S/he has overarching responsibility for service planning, coordinating and managing activity and resources and will lead the implementation of change. S/he will empower staff to support older people to continue to exercise independence.
• The Director of Nursing will be directly responsible for Residential services, Day Care services and Respite services.
• S/he will have a pivotal role in providing leadership for the service.
• The post holder will lead and support the service in response to the emerging needs of an increasing frail elderly population.

The post holder will be responsible for the clinical and financial governance for the Older Person Service ensuring patient safety and quality assurance in line with best practice.

The HSE Dublin and Midlands serves a population of circa 1,077,639 providing health and social care services to communities living within Dublin West, Dublin South-West, Dublin South City, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Kildare, West Wicklow and Westmeath. Currently, approximately 30k staff work within the HSE Dublin and Midlands Region providing key health and social care services with a budget of €3 billion.

The region has 4 Integrated Health Areas, serving a population of around 300,000 and take account of local geographies, population size, needs and services. The IHA areas are HSE Dublin South City and West, HSE Dublin South West, HSE Kildare and West Wicklow and HSE Midlands and the Integrated Healthcare Managers are in post since October 2024. IHAs bring together both acute and community services as well as other non-HSE providers and are crucial to supporting and enabling integrated care. Within the 4 Integrated Health Areas there are 9 acute hospital (model 4s and 3s, mix of statutory and voluntary providers) delivering a full range of acute hospital, women and children’s services, in addition to specialised radiation and oncology care. There are also 6 integrated care hubs/csts and 20 Community Health Networks who together will serve the population health needs of our area.

The reform programme for HSE Dublin and Midlands provides an opportunity to shape the future of health and social care in a rapidly changing environment and to continue to implement safer better health care through integrated services. Health Regions will be the primary service coordination and delivery units for the vast majority of health and social care services provided across Ireland. They will provide the governance and organisational arrangements to enable planning, management and delivery of care for people and for communities across their region.