Director of Nursing 1, Assistant, Technology and Transformation, HSE South West

Details of Service

The Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for the provision of all health and personal social care services in the Republic of Ireland. With an annual budget in 2024 of 24 billion and over 150000 employed in the HSE and the Section 38 Agencies with which the HSE has Service Level Agreements (SLAs) the HSE is the largest employer in the State and the largest of any public sector organisation. The Health Regions Implementation involves the internal reorganisation of the HSE into six operational regions with responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services within their respective defined geographies. While the full implementation will be a multi-year journey the Health Region approach was stood up in March 2024 and will continue to progress throughout 2024 and 2025. These new arrangements are fundamental to the delivery of Sláintecare reforms and aim to improve the health services ability to deliver timely integrated care to patients and service users care that is planned and funded in line with their needs at regional and local addition the following will be delivered:

Alignment of hospital-based and community-based services to deliver joined-up integrated care closer to home.

Clarification and strengthening of corporate and clinical governance and accountability at all levels.

A population-based approach to service planning and delivery.

A balanced national consistency with local autonomy to maintain consistent quality of care across the country.

An efficient highly productive and transparent health and social care service with aligned incentives to provide people with timely access to safe high quality integrated care.

Support for local and regional innovations in service improvement for adoption across regions or at national level as appropriate. The changes in healthcare governance arrangements are being designed to make our services easier to navigate for people and to facilitate more integrated care stronger accountability and greater transparency across the sector.

The vision of the Shared Care Record Programme is to create a National Shared Care Record (NSCR) which clinicians patients and carers value and use to improve clinical decision-making. The NSCR will be an enterprise-wide platform capable of supporting a patients care transitions through the Irish healthcare system in a secure and robust manner. It will make an important contribution to the integration of care between acute and community services including the shift of services toward the community and the establishment of vertically integrated Regional Health Areas.

The HSE Southwest health region will manage and deliver all public health and social care services in Cork and Kerry. HSE Southwest includes all hospital and community healthcare services in the region.

The NSCR will support:

• Better safer clinical decision-making
• More informed and engaged patients and citizens
• Improved care coordination between healthcare providers
• Improved patient experience and outcomes
• More time released to care
• Secure sharing of health information

The National Shared Care Record will be an invaluable resource to assist in improved clinical outcomes. The NSCR will also support continuity of care when patients are discharged from a hospital bed into the community. A public health nurse visiting a patient for the first time can have an overview of the patients recent inpatient stay of their continuing care needs and of any underlying conditions which will need management.

Patients their families and carers (subject to patient consent) will also have access to their own key healthcare information in the National Shared Care Record enabling them to actively participate in decisions relating to their care. Patients who participate in their healthcare decisions report higher levels of satisfaction with their care; have increased knowledge about conditions tests and treatment; and have more realistic expectations about their treatment plans.

By delivering a clinically valuable digital tool across the care continuum the National Shared Care Record will be an important step on the HSEs digital maturity journey and release value from previous investments in siloed digital patient record solutions.

The Assistant Director of Nursing in health informatics will lead the development of shared care records. The ADON will work outside the traditional boundaries of the acute setting to ensure information flow is patient centred and is in the right place at the right time for the right patient. The ADON Health Informatics will have a regional impact on digital health strategy and activities and impacts nursing and midwifery informatics in group networked community settings.

The post holder will ensure that the nursing and midwifery workforce is enabled to effectively contribute to and benefit from the implementation of integrated digital care records.
The post holder will act as a key conduit between National Shared Care Record programme teams local implementation teams and nursing and midwifery services in the region.

Purpose of the Post

The vision of the Shared Care Record Programme is to create a National Shared Care Record (NSCR) which clinicians patients and carers value and use to improve clinical decision-making. The NSCR will be an enterprise-wide platform capable of supporting a patients care transitions through the Irish healthcare system in a secure and robust manner. It will make an important contribution to the integration of care between acute and community services including the shift of services toward the community and the establishment of vertically integrated Regional Health Areas.

The NSCR will support:

Better safer clinical decision-making

More informed and engaged patients and citizens

Improved care coordination between healthcare providers

Improved patient experience and outcomes

More time released to care

Secure sharing of health information

The National Shared Care Record will be an invaluable resource to assist in improved clinical outcomes. The NSCR will also support continuity of care when patients are discharged from a hospital bed into the community. A public health nurse visiting a patient for the first time can have an overview of the patients recent inpatient stay of their continuing care needs and of any underlying conditions which will need management.

Patients their families and carers (subject to patient consent) will also have access to their own key healthcare information in the National Shared Care Record enabling them to actively participate in decisions relating to their care. Patients who participate in their healthcare decisions report higher levels of satisfaction with their care; have increased knowledge about conditions tests and treatment; and have more realistic expectations about their treatment plans.

By delivering a clinically valuable digital tool across the care continuum the National Shared Care Record will be an important step on the HSEs digital maturity journey and release value from previous investments in siloed digital patient record solutions.

The Assistant Director of Nursing in health informatics will lead the development of shared care records. The ADON will work outside the traditional boundaries of the acute setting to ensure information flow is patient centred and is in the right place at the right time for the right patient. The ADON Health Informatics will have a regional impact on digital health strategy and activities and impacts nursing and midwifery informatics in group networked community settings.

The post holder will ensure that the nursing and midwifery workforce is enabled to effectively contribute to and benefit from the implementation of integrated digital care records.

The post holder will act as a key conduit between National Shared Care Record programme teams local implementation teams and nursing and midwifery services in the region

Informal Enquiries

We welcome enquiries about the role.

Contact Ms Deirdre FeehelyDirector of Nursing & Midwifery Transformation and Technology - for further information about the role

Contact Ann-Marie OKeeffe- People Resourcing for enquiries relating to the recruitment process

Required Experience:

Director