Assistant Director of Nursing (Band 1) Digital Health

The role

Digital for Care 2030 is Irelands strategic plan to modernise health and social care through digital innovation. The Digital Health Strategic Implementation Roadmap serves as our digital plan towards an integrated universal and high-quality health and social care system for our population.

The purpose of this post is to provide Nursing and Midwifery leadership across the Dublin South East Region in the implementation adoption and optimisation of National and Regional led Digital Projects outlined in the Digital Health Strategic Implementation Roadmap.

They will act as a key conduit between national programme teams local implementation teams and clinical services in the region ensuring the safe and effective delivery of Digital health programmes of work.

The post holder will ensure that the Nursing and Midwifery workforce is enabled to effectively contribute to and benefit from integrated digital care records.

Having a regional impact on the digital health strategy the post holder will work across all care settings in the Region to ensure information flow is patient centred and is in the right place at the right time for the right patient.

The person

Professional Qualifications Experience etc

Minimum Criteria

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

• Are registered or are eligible for registration in the General Nurse Division Midwives Division or Mental Health Nurse Division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).

And

• Have 7 years post registration nursing/midwifery experience and 3 years nursing management experience at a minimum of CNM/CMM 2 level in an acute setting or community setting.

And

• Have successfully completed a post registration programme of study as certified by the education provider which verified that the applicant has achieved a National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) major academic Level 8 or higher award maintained by Quality & Qualifications of Ireland (QQI) or can provide written evidence from the Higher Education Institute that they have achieved the number of ECTS credits equivalent to a Level 8 or higher in a health care management related area.

Annual Registration

i) 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

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

Post specific requirements

Demonstrate depth and breadth of nursing or midwifery leadership experience at a management level

Knowledge of the implementation of clinical information systems or other common health care clinical applications

Please demonstrate your depth and breadth of Project management experience

Other specific requirements

A flexible approach to working hours may be required in order to meet deadlines

Access to ones own appropriate transport to fulfil the requirements of the role is essential

Commitment to undertake additional learning and development in digital health to meet the requirements of the post

Postgraduate qualification in health informatics leadership or digital health transformation

Project management cert desirable

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:

Contact: Caríosa Murray Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer Digital Health Director of Nursing and Midwifery Dublin South East Region for further information about the role.

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Robert Burch Recruitment and HR HSE Head office Carrickmines.

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For enquiries about the recruitment process

Application Process:

***CVs will NOT be accepted***

Closing date: Monday 20th October @ 12:00pm

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Required Experience:

Director