Job Alert: Staff Nurse General (Community Services) – HSE Sligo Leitrim

Job Alert: Staff Nurse General (Community Services)
Location: Sligo, Ireland
Employer: HSE Community Healthcare Sligo Leitrim
Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: €35,919–€53,851
Closing Date: 27th January 2025, 12:00 PM

JOB DESCRIPTION

Community Healthcare Sligo Leitrim is recruiting a Staff Nurse General (Community) to join its Public Health Nursing Service. This role is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality, client-centered care in the community while working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The position focuses on promoting health and well-being by providing services to antenatal and postnatal mothers, children, older adults, and individuals with physical, sensory, or intellectual disabilities.

You will provide care across various settings, including homes, clinics, schools, and community facilities, ensuring that clients receive person-centered, holistic care. The role also includes opportunities to work within specialized teams such as the Community Intervention Team and School Immunisation Program.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Professional Responsibilities

• Practice Nursing according to the Code of Professional Conduct as laid down by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and Professional Clinical Guidelines.
• Adhere to national, regional and local Health Service Executive (HSE) guidelines, policies, protocols and legislation.
• Work within their scope of practice and take measures to develop and maintain the competence necessary for professional practice.
• Maintain a high standard of professional behaviour and be accountable for their practice.
• Be aware of ethical policies and procedures which pertain to their area of practice.
• Respect and maintain the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of clients of the Public Health Nursing (PHN) service and also the business of the PHN service.
• Follow appropriate lines of authority within the PHN Nurse Management structure.

Clinical Practice

• Deliver the nursing care of an assigned group of patients within a best practice / evidence-based framework.
• Support Public Health Nurses to manage a designated caseload. In certain circumstances the Staff Nurse General (Community) will be responsible for their own allocated caseload.
• Promote the health, welfare and social wellbeing of patients within our services.
• Actively participate as a Primary Care team member in all aspects of service delivery including case conferences, clinical meetings, team meetings etc.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual person-centred care programmes within an agreed framework and in accordance with best practice.
• Develop and promote good interpersonal relationships with patients, their families / social network supports and the interdisciplinary care team, in the promotion of person-centred care.
• Ensure that care is carried out in an empathetic and ethical manner and that the dignity and spiritual needs of the patient are respected.
• Promote and recognise the patients’ social and cultural dimensions of care and the need for links with their local community.
• Collaborate and work closely with the patient, their family, the multi-disciplinary / inter-disciplinary team, external agencies and services to facilitate discharge planning, continuity of care and specific care requirements.
• Provide appropriate and timely education and information to the patient, their family and be an advocate for the individual patient and for their family.
• Report and consult with senior nursing management and GP on clinical issues, as appropriate.
• Maintain appropriate and accurate written and electronic nursing records and reports regarding patient care in accordance with local / national / professional guidelines.
• Participate in innovation and change in the approach to patient care delivery particularly in relation to new research findings, evidence based practice and advances in treatment.
• Participate in clinical audit and review.
• Undertake Key Worker role as appropriate within the Primary Care Team.
• Promote a positive health concept with clients and colleagues and contribute to health promotion and disease prevention initiatives of the Health Service Executive.
• Delegate to and supervise the work of other grades of staff within the remit of their role, as appropriate.
• Demonstrate flexibility by rotating / assisting in other units / care settings as required in order to meet nursing resource needs and the requirements of the integrated services programme (ISP).
• Refer clients to other services, as required.
• Provide a nursing service to relevant and appropriated medical and nurse led clinics as deployed.

This is not exhaustive.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Candidates must have at the latest date of application:

1. Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc

(a) Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:

(i) Be registered, or be eligible for registration, in the General Nurse

Division of the Register of Nurses kept by the Nursing & Midwifery

Board of Ireland (NMBI)

And

(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability, (including a high

standard of clinical and administrative capacity), for the proper discharge of the

duties of the office.

2. Annual registration

(i) On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration

on the General Nurse Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives

maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI]

(Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).

And

(ii) Practitioners must confirm annual registration with the NMBI to the

HSE by way of the annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate

(PSAC

Please note that appointment to and continuation in posts that require statutory registration is dependent upon the post holder maintaining annual registration in the relevant division of the register maintained by:

Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing Midwifery Board Ireland)

Health

A candidate for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

Character

Each candidate for and any person holding the office must be of good character.

How to Apply

For details and application, click here.  The deadline for applications is 12:00 PM on 27th January 2025.