ExecutiveFull TimeEN
Post Title: Director of Nursing, Raheny Campus Post Status: PermanentDepartment: Department of NursingLocation: Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 Reports to: Director of Nursing Salary: Appointment will be made on the Director of Nursing ( band 2 salary scale)Hours of work: 37.5 Hours per WeekClosing Date: 29/05/2026 @ 12:00pm
*Please note the hospital reserves the right to close the competition early should a substantial number of applications be received.
Position Summary:
The primary purpose of the role is to be responsible and accountable for the provision of nursing services and to provide professional and clinical leadership for all nursing staff on the Raheny Campus which incorporates Raheny Community Nursing Unit, St Joseph’s Hospital and the Day hospital. This includes ensuring there is effective, patient centered professional practice in accordance with relevant statutory, professional and clinical governance requirements.
The Director of Nursing also holds corporate responsibility for the effective management of Healthcare Assistants that support patient care and the nursing team. The post holder will be required to be the designated Person In charge for the community residential unit on campus as per statutory requirements or to delegate this authority to a suitably qualified function on the campus with prior agreement with the provider designate .
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership and Accountability • Provide strategic and clinical leadership and direction for nursing and related services which results in the delivery of effective, efficient, quality assured and patient centered nursing care. • Develop a shared sense of commitment and participation among staff in the management of change, the development of the nursing services and in responding to the changing health needs of patients. • Assess, develop and maintain the nursing organisational structure on the campus within the context of overall organisational objectives.• Be responsible for strategy and policy relating to practice development, education and professional development requirements on the campus• Keep the Director of Nursing Beaumont Hospital and Chief Executive appraised of any significant development within his/her area of responsibility and performs such additional duties as may be assigned from time to time • Ensure strong emphasis on interdisciplinary team work and development of this ethos and approach to care.
Strategic Management and Service Planning:
• To contribute to developing, overseeing and assessing performance against the overall nursing strategic plan for the campus • To put a system in place to develop the leadership capacity and capability of all clinical nurse managers across the campus ensuring alignment with strategic priorities• To utilise effective performance reporting tool to ensure oversight and compliance against key deliverables are available • To ensure nursing care delivery is in line or develops development plans with national clinical strategies for both acute and residential care and national clinical effectiveness guidelines. • To prepare an annual report for the campus activities • Formulation of policies and the selection, introduction and development of information and other systems for the nursing service. • Define objectives and identify relevant action plans for each clinical service on the campus • Responsibility for the management of all nursing services on the campus over a 24 hour period and ensure that systems are in place to support this responsibility.
Quality, Safety and Clinical Governance:
Responsibility for appropriate governance arrangements and structures for the following on the campus:
1. Infection Prevention and Control 2. Residential services Advanced Nursing Practice 3. Nurse Drug Prescribing & Nurse Radiation Prescribing
4. Patient and Public Involvement / Engagement 5. Nurse Professional Regulation 6. Safeguarding of service users • Ensure compliance with all relevant quality and safety standards as set out by agencies such as NMBI, HSE and HIQA. • Encourage a culture of continuous quality improvement and mutual co-operation in the achievement of the highest possible standards of clinical care and maximum efficiency. • Take a lead role in developing quality improvement capacity on the campus for the purpose of ensuring wide scale patient care / process improvement for designated areas of care / practice.• To be responsible for ensuring that adverse incidents involving nursing care within the hospital are investigated promptly, taking preventative / safeguarding action where necessary to ensure that patient safety is prioritised and all relevant procedures are adhered to and fully implemented. • Establish and monitor governance structures for nursing metrics and appropriate clinical audit and ensuring a mechanism is in place for feedback and action across the campus to support appropriate reporting at corporate clinical governance meetings • To lead the development, monthly review and evaluation of the campus risk register in conjunction with the medical directorate management team• Oversee the management of the complaints process for the campus in conjunction with the PALS department in accordance with procedures and policies
Professional Leadership, Education and Workforce Planning:
• Provide professional and clinical leadership / direction to nursing and clinical support staff on the campus that supports models of care delivery required for delivering the outputs identified within the HSE national service plan, RCSI hospital group service plan and the Beaumont Hospital nursing strategic plan ensuring the highest standards of care, and ensures full compliance with statutory bodies – eg Nursing and Midwifery Board Ireland, HIQA. • Ensure any new professional guidelines and regulations from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland are implemented appropriately and in a timely manner and makes appropriate amendments to governance arrangements should same be required.
• Provide direction and support to the Medical Directorate Management Team on matters relating to nursing and all associated professional standards relevant to the campus. • Lead the development of a nursing workforce strategy, planning and implementing workforce changes that will ensure the effective deployment of professional and support staff and align to international models of care. • Lead the ongoing implementation of the national framework for safe staffing and skill mix on the campus and ensure the ongoing monitoring of all relevant clinical areas against the framework using the designated software system to measure acuity, demand and occupancy • In partnership with the DON Beaumont and HRD, develop strategies for the recruitment and retention of nursing and HCA staff. • To ensure that effective local nursing and HCA induction compliments the Corporate Induction Programme. • To promote and maintain a culture of evidence based practice for nursing, ensuring the creation of effective local networks to share good practice and dissemination. • Liaise with the Centre of Education to compile Training and Education Plans encompassing mandatory, corporate and professional development objectives and to realise the capabilities and contribution of nurses and HCA’s. • With the Director of Nursing develop and promote corporate nursing practice and integrated patient care policies, including the development of specialist or advanced nursing for interdisciplinary team approaches to care. • Ensure the optimum and effective use of staff through efficient rostering, skill/grade mix planning, work load measurement, staff profiling and deployment.• Initiate the implementation of an ongoing development and individual performance review process and foster a high level of morale among staff by effective motivation and communication. • Anticipate and manage any industrial relations issues relating to nursing and allied staff in consultation with the HR Department. • Promote and maintain a safe environment for staff. Develop and implement Risk Management and Health and Safety strategies in consultation with appropriate personnel.
• Will monitor the optimum and effective use of resources through rostering, skill/grade mix planning, workload measurement, staff profiling and deployment. HR and Finance Control & Management: The Director of Nursing will exercise sound financial management and assist in ensuring that expenditure (capital and revenue) and income targets are achieved. The Director of Nursing will take responsibility for the management of any assigned budgets. • To ensure timely compliance with professional annual registration requirements across the campus • To lead and provide professional nursing input to disciplinary panels as required. • To lead/partake in serious untoward incident reviews, disciplinary, grievances, and other complaint investigations as necessary. • To manage the overall nursing budget for directly managed functions.• To act as the authorised signatory for delegated governance and corporate nursing requests, registrations, invoices and timesheets as appropriate. • To monitor and evaluate the effective use of nursing resources, alerting the Director of Nursing, Beaumont of trends and performances against agreed targets and ensuring adherence to the hospital financial controls and procedures. • Participate in the overall financial planning of the campus including the assessment of priorities in pay and non-pay expenditure. • Ensure expenditure is controlled within the budget and identify potential for efficiency saving through improved practices and innovation. Bed Management and Discharge Planning The Director of Nursing is responsible for ensuring effective co-ordination of bed and discharge planning on the campus in conjunction with the relevant medical personnel and in line with hospital policy. This involves:- • Ensuring that effective admissions and discharge practices are consistently implemented.• Implementing pre-admission, admission/discharge and transfer protocols as required. • Liaising with the Head of Patient Flow and other relevant stakeholders in relation to the planning and implementation of winter and other bed management initiatives.• Analysing, monitoring and forecasting trends of admission and discharges on the campus and highlighting the wider implications for acute and non-acute services.
• Advising the Head of patient Flow, Medical Directorate Management Team and other relevant stakeholders on optimal use and cost effective management of in-patient and day care resource. Develop the concept of collaborative care planning in conjunction with other professionals.
Personal Development: This post is a developmental post. Accordingly, the post holder is expected to maintain their own professional and personal development. The post holder will be required to review personal and developmental objectives with the Director of Nursing, Beaumont annually.Key Performance Criteria: • The quality and standard of nursing care evidenced by ongoing evaluation, audit and quality outcomes. • The extent to which service plan objectives have been achieved. • The extent to which performance objectives agreed with DON are achieved• The extent to which there is patient satisfaction with nursing care. • The effectiveness of financial management, in particular, ability to operate within the budget. • The extent to which good working relationships are fostered and maintained throughout the nursing service and between nursing and other disciplines.
The above Job Specification 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.
Selection Criteria: Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post. Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.
Mandatory Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post. Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.
Mandatory and Desirable Criteria:
Qualification Essential Desirable Qualifications
• Be registered on General Division of the Register for Nurses & Midwives maintained by NMBI. Management qualification or a post graduate diploma. • Have successfully completed a post registration programme of study which verifies that the applicant has achieved NFQ major academic level 8 or higher award maintained by QQI in healthcare or management related area. Masters level in a related field.
(NFQ Level 9)
Experience • Experience of middle/senior management in a complex organisation • A minimum of seven years post registration experience with a minimum of five years nursing management experience at a Clinical Nurse Manager 2 grade or above in an acute hospital setting. • Experience of managing large professional teams underpinned by formal training • Successful management track record in a multi professional environment. • Day to day people management including appraisal and objective setting, recruitment and retention. • Management of large complex budget.• Experience in strategic planning, development implementation including project management experience
Development• Career progression through continuing professional development • Willingness to undertake training and development as identified in order to progress personal and professional development
Specialist Knowledge
• Workforce and capacity planning and knowledge of relevant frameworks. • Knowledge and application of key policies and procedures to include access to services, Health & Safety, HR guidance and governance
Professional Knowledge • Up to date knowledge of contemporary professional nursing including current trends in care delivery and therapeutic interventions. • Understanding of current professional nursing issues. Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of nursing audit as relevant to nursing practice. • Evidence of continued professional development.• Good working knowledge of all relevant codes of professional practice. • A high level of awareness of codes of professional practice for relevant non nursing professions
Behaviours
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy. • Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding team. • Working well under pressure of time and resources • Fair honest and consistent in approach • Self-management demonstrating resilience
Practical Skills • Excellent change management skills. • Analytical skills; ability to analyse data and formulate reports • Project Management skills • Ability to communicate in a highly complex service relating information to senior managers and external customers. • Comprehensive understanding and experience of highly complex information analysis essential for communicating business finance and workforce plans. • Excellent presentation skills using a variety of options and mechanisms.• Ability to lead highly complex multidisciplinary teams across the organisation • Manage clinical and business risks – developing action plans to improve performance
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 an Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland)
If an appointee has previously been employed in the Civil or Public Service and that appointee is entitled to or in receipt of a pension from the Civil or Public Service or where a Civil/ Public Service pension comes into payment during the appointee’s re-employment that pension will be subject to abatement in accordance with Section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2012.
Please note: In applying for this position you are acknowledging that you understand that the abatement provisions, where relevant, will apply. It is not envisaged that the employing Department/ Office/ Body will support an application for an abatement waiver in respect of appointments to this position.
The Hospital: www.beaumont.ie Management Unit: www.beaumont.ie/hr
Informal Enquiries ONLY to:Name: Sinead Connolly Title: Director of Nursing Email address: sineadconnolly@beaumont.ieTelephone: 01 8092912
