Area Support Nurse

Location: Hybrid / Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare Nursing & Midwifery
Annual Salary range:from € 40,000.00 to € 45,000.00

Are you a Registered General Nurse looking to take the next step into a leadership role where you can combine hands on clinical expertise with quality, governance, and service improvement?

Connected Health, one of Ireland's leading homecare providers, is seeking an Area Support Nurse to join our expanding clinical team. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence standards of care across your area while supporting meaningful, person centred care in people's homes.

The Role

Working closely with our Client Care Managers, you will play a key role in maintaining and enhancing clinical standards, compliance, and quality assurance across your region. You'll help ensure every client receives safe, effective, and compassionate care at home.

Why choose Connected Health

• Competitive salary and permanent contract.
• Hybrid working with flexibility.
• Comprehensive induction, ongoing training and CPD support.
• Career progression in a fast growing organisation.
• Wellbeing package and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Employee recognition awards (Month, Quarter, Year).
• €200 Refer a Friend bonus.

MAIN DUTIES Quality Governance, Clinical Compliance and Training

• Have complete oversight of your area to ensure high competence and compliance levels and report any areas of concern to the Compliance Manager.
• To anticipate and identify improvements needed and address deficiencies in the quality of service provided. This will include service development needs, education development and assistance in the development of policies, audit processes and patient safety initiatives.
• Ensuring clinical compliance as per current HSE Tender Specification.
• Provide clinical input to assist in the preparation for HQIA's introduction as directed by the Compliance Manager.
• Assist Operations team with clinical compliance reviews as agreed with Compliance Manager as per priorities allow.
• Have complete oversight of all Governance and clinical issues for your area and provide weekly updates to Quality Manager.
• Identify Clinical Governance patterns or trends that require escalation or investigation and assist with same.
• Assist compliance team as required with internally audits for Client and Staff files, with particular focus on the clinical aspects of assessments and care.
• As part of the governance team, day to day management, provide day to day support to the operations teams in your area.
• Be responsible for establishing and keeping track of quality improvement and other information that concerns patient care.
• Contribute to the continuous quality improvement.

Clinical Support

• Provide clinical support on request of client care managers and assist with complex patient care reviews and assessments.
• To carry out regular risk assessments to identify clinical risks and prevent accidents and support Client Care Manager's in appropriate incident management systems for incidents, complaints, adverse incidents and safeguarding concerns.
• Support Clients and Client Care Managers with clinical care and complex needs advice and revert to HSE/Public Health/Safeguarding office where necessary.

Training and Development

• Conduct staff training for induction, epilepsy and manual handling refresher training.
• Ensure appropriate training is in place for all staff and advocate for staff training needs when required.
• Identifying gaps in training where we can make improvements for our carers to provide better care to our clients.
• Work with Training team to ensure clinical content of material meets ROI legislative requirements and NMBI standards.

Other

• Liaise with the designated stakeholders relative to the area (Public Health Nurse & HSE) whilst promoting an open and transparent working culture.
• Actively seek feedback from internal and external stakeholders, staff, clients and relatives to look at service improvement and achieving positive outcomes for those who use our services.
• Contribute to policy review, development and implementation as needed.
• This list of duties is not exhaustive and will require the successful candidate to be flexible and be adaptable to change.

SKILLS & QUALITIES REQUIRED

• Exemplar communication skills with the ability to lead in a facilitative and confident manner.
• Be a highly determined, driven, and ambitious individual, with the desire to make a real difference to the lives of our service users and assist in the growth of our clinical services.
• Have a high level of organisation skills with the ability to plan and prioritise with excellent attention to detail.
• A creative and strategic thinker who is able to embrace, influence and communicate improvements to the team.
• Positive and engaging person with the ability to build great working relationships.

ESSENTIAL CRITERA

• Active on the NMBI Register - General Nurse Division.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in an acute setting.
• Hold a current full clean driving license.
• Have strong teamwork ability but also a high degree of self motivation to take initiative and work alone.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Previous experience working within home care.
• Certification in wound care.
• Certification in Epilepsy awareness.
• Certification in Dementia awareness.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to multitask in an ever changing environment.
• Level 6 Train the Trainer.
• Level 6 Patient Moving and Handling Trainer.

About Us

At Connected Health, we don't just offer a job - we offer careers that are at the forefront of transforming the way homecare is delivered across Ireland. We recognise that the individuals we employ are pivotal to driving this transformation within the sector. That's why, at Connected Health, our mission is unwavering: to continually attract, recruit, and develop the finest homecare team.

Connected Health is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, good relations, respect for diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the delivery of its services to clients. It is also committed to ensuring that the talents and resources of all its employees are utilised to the full.