Nurse Educator, CNM 2 Grade
Posted 9 days 11 hours ago by Bloomfield Health Services
Location: On site / Dublin, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare Nursing & Midwifery
Annual Salary range:from € 60,252.00 to € 71,232.00
Bloomfield Hospital has an exciting opportunityfor a Nurse Educator to play an integral role in a committed multi-disciplinary team, and to make a significant contribution in the area of inpatient mental health treatment and care.
Work Location: Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, Ireland
Contract Type : Permanent, Full-Time
Working Hours: 78 hours fortnightly
Reports to: Director of Nursing and accountable to Assistant Directors of Nursing
About Bloomfield Hospital:We are a 131-bed inpatient mental health service, registered as an approved centre with the Mental Health Commission. Our ethos is rooted in honouring the dignity of every person who comes through our doors.
Bloomfield Hospital provides a spectrum of neuropsychiatric services to adults with a range of serious and enduring mental health needs such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's Diseases, as well as individuals with early onset dementias, schizophrenia, and mood disorders. We are the only facility in Ireland that provides a high level of specialized care for people with Huntington's disease.
In Bloomfield Hospital there is a focus on creating a therapeutic environment by using recovery-oriented clinical practices and therapeutic interventions, which are evidence-based, to enable and support patients to achieve their highest level of functioning and quality of life. This care is delivered through a Multidisciplinary Team including colleagues in Psychiatry, Psychology, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language, Dietetics, Physiotherapy, and General Practice.
We have over 200 multidisciplinary team members delivering the highest standards of care in a friendly and inclusive workplace.
Purpose of the post:The post holder will be involved in planning, developing, co-ordinating, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based, quality-assured education and training programmes for registered nurses of all grades, disciplines, Health Care Assistants and other disciplines, as relevant, within the Approved Centre.
Education and training programmes must be based on the most up-to-date evidence and research, and provide an engaging and challenging forum in which to foster collaborative learning, reflection on practice and innovation. The principles of quality and patient safety, and person-centredness, must underpin and be applied to all programmes.
The successful candidates will meet the following requirements:- Registered in the General Division of Nursing with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
- Registered, or are eligible for registration, as a Nurse Tutor with the Nursing and Midwifery Board Ireland.
- Have a minimum of three years post registration clinical experience.
- A dual qualification in General and Psychiatric Nursing is desirable.
- Demonstrate knowledge of emerging professional developments in nursing/ and the wider health service.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the organisation and management of continuing education and professional development activities in nursing.
- Demonstrate knowledge of curriculum design and development and the process of programme approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
- Demonstrate ability to apply education theory to teaching, facilitating, assessing and supporting learners.
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of relevant legislation and requirements and standards of professional regulatory and academic awarding bodies.
- Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to transmit information fluently and persuasively in an engaging manner.
- Demonstrate ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to provide constructive feedback to encourage learning.
- Demonstrate evidence of information technology literacy including ability to use email, PowerPoint, excel, database, search engines etc.
- Demonstrate evidence of organisation and time management skills to meet objectives within agreed timeframes and achieve quality results.
- Demonstrate evidence of effective planning and organisation skills including awareness of resource management, co-ordinating and scheduling of activities.
- Demonstrate evidence of the ability to plan and organise own workload to meet deadlines and operate effectively with competing priorities and unexpected scenarios.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to budget and ensure effective utilisation of resources.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to maintain a disciplined and professional level of performance under sustained or situational pressure and to show persistence and flexibility in achieving goals.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to analyse and evaluate information and situations quickly and accurately to solve problems and make decisions.
- Demonstrate evidence of a commitment to self-evaluation, reflection and continuous performance improvement.
- Demonstrate evidence of motivation and an innovative approach to the job in a changing work environment.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to work as a team member and to contribute positively to the development of that team.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to work in a co-operative and collaborative manner with other teams and disciplines.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to lead projects and show initiative in developing new projects.
- Demonstrate evidence of ability to effectively chair meetings.
- Free onsite staff parking
- Subsidized on-site restaurant
- Contributory pension
- Further education support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
Applications for the post close 17th November 2026.