The role
The post holder is responsible for the daily operational function of the Intensive Care Units. This will include responsibility and co-ordination of clinical practice, professional practice, practice development, service development and clinical and professional leadership on a rostered shift and the management of all nursing and health care assistant staff, students and other allied staff rostered on duty during the Intensive Care Shift Leaders rostered shift.
The post holder will provide clinical supervision of staff and their practice on a daily basis and be responsibility for the implementation of formal clinical supervision structures for ongoing staff and service development.
The post holder will provide effective and efficient management of the Intensive Care Units during the rostered shift in such a way as to provide a safe and quality service for patients and staff while making the best use of time and resources
The person
* Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc
* Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:
* Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann) or entitled to be so registered.
AND
(ii) Have at least 5 years post registration experience (or an aggregrate of 5 years fulltime post registration experience) of which 2 must be in the speciality or related area.
AND
(iii) Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
AND
(iv) Candidates must demonstrate evidence of continuous professional development.
AND
* Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard of suitability and clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
* Annual registration
* On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevant division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).
AND
(ii) Confirm annual registration with NMBI to the HSE by way of the annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).
* Health
Candidates 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
Candidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.
For further information please see the below job specification.
The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties, as appropriate to the post, which may be assigned to him / her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.
We welcome enquiries about the role:
We welcome enquiries about the role.
Eleanor Carpenter, Director of Nursing, Wexford General Hospital.
/ Mobile:
Timothy Rees CNM3 Critical Care, Wexford General Hospital
Bleep #115
For Further Information About The Role.
Contact:
Robert Burch – Recruitment and HR, HSE head office – Carrickmines.
Email:
For Further Enquiries About The Recruitment.
Application Process:
* CV's will NOT be accepted***
Closing date: 26th Friday September 2025 @ 12:00pm
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