Dskww/ / Health And Social Care Assistant

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: Alison Murphy

Grade: ICPOP Operational Lead

Email: alison.murphy1@hse.ie

Phone: 087 335 9931

Purpose of the Post:

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.

The Older Persons Service Model sets out the end-to-end service model for the identification and management of frail older adults with complex care needs. The focus is on providing an end-to-end pathway that will reduce admissions to acute hospitals by providing access to diagnostics and specialist services in a timely manner. For patients who require hospital admission, the emphasis is on minimising the hospital length of stay, with the provision of post-discharge follow up and support for people in the community and in their own homes, where required.

The Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons (ICPOP) Community Specialist Team (CST) is a specialist transdisciplinary service primarily targeting and managing the complex care needs of the older person with multiple co-morbidities across a continuum of care.

The overall aims of the service are to:

• Provide a specialist geriatric opinion using a multidisciplinary approach to support older people with complex care needs.
• Develop a person-centred care planning approach that supports robust and timely communication across care settings.
• Support appropriate and timely reduction of Emergency Department (ED) attendance through the development of care pathways that support GPs and others in assessment of older people with escalating care needs.
• Provide support and education to the older person, carers and healthcare professionals.

Clinicians in the ICPOP CST will work closely with the Consultant Geriatrician(s) and ICPOP operational team lead to develop and implement appropriate care pathways while working with primary care, community care and acute care services.

Health & Social Care Professionals (HSCPs) are a key part of the Integrated Care Programme for Older Persons. Health & Social Care Professionals (HSCPs) are regulated professionals who must meet standards in how they provide services so that the public can have confidence in the standard of care they deliver. CORU is the regulatory body for most of the Health & Social Care Professionals (HSCPs). Health & Social Care Assistants support the Health & Social Care Professionals (HSCPs) in delivering high quality care- care, which meets the standards and ensures the best outcome for our patients.