Health And Social Care Professions Regional Practice Development Coordinator

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 newly established HSE South West Health Region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services for Cork & Kerry serving a population of over 700,000 people. The redesign of services will allow new pathways to be developed between acute hospitals, community services, primary care, health & wellbeing and voluntary sectors to develop more integrated, patient-centred care.

The HSE South West includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region. This includes:

• South/South West Hospital Group (S/SWHG) and Cork Kerry Community Healthcare (CKCH).

The Department of Population and Public Health, HSE South West is now aligned with this health region.

The S/SWHG consists of five statutory hospitals and two voluntary hospitals. The statutory hospitals are:

• Bantry General Hospital (BGH)
• Cork University Hospital (CUH)
• Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH)
• Mallow General Hospital (MGH)
• University Hospital Kerry (UHK)

The two voluntary hospitals in the group are funded by the HSE as Section 38 agencies under the Health Act 2004:

• Mercy University Hospital (MUH)
• South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH)

Community Healthcare Services focus on keeping you well so that you can continue to live at home or close to home through our health promotion, disease screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation programs. You can refer yourself to most Community Healthcare Services or through your GP, Public Health Nurse, Community Mental Health Team, etc. Community Healthcare Services include:

· Primary Care Services

· Older Persons Services

· Disabilities Services

· Mental Health Services

· Quality and Patient Safety

· Health and Wellbeing Healthcare

Functions such as Finance and Human Resources support the delivery of healthcare in this area and their roles are embedded in all work practices across the area to support the provision of person centred, safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and timely care in all our services.

“A Healthier Ireland with the right care, at the right time and in the right place”.

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 18,723 Health and Social Care Professionals employed by the HSE (HSE Staff Census October 2021) representing 25% of the clinical workforce and 14% of the overall health services workforce.

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Please allow sufficient time to submit your application form before the deadline. For technical issues please contact Campaign Lead Katie McCarthy at Katie.McCarthy1@hse.ie.