The post of the Clinical Midwife Manager 3 has a pivotal role in service planning and development, coordinating and managing activity and resources within the Maternity Unit. To provide Midwifery leadership in proactively managing and coordinating clinical practice and the provision of human, financial and material resources in accordance with organisational values and goals, ensuring a cost-effective midwifery/ nursing service focused on providing exceptional, evidence-based tailored patient care.

Responsibilities include overseeing the quality of midwifery care, delivery of agreed key performance Indicators (KPIs), the development of policy and procedures, the monitoring of activity and the delivery of agreed levels of service for the area. 

The HSE has created six new health regions. Each region is responsible for providing both hospital and community care for the people in that area. Bringing community health services and hospitals together means we can take a more patient-centred approach to healthcare.

HSE Dublin North East provides health and social care to North Dublin, Louth, Meath, Monaghan and most areas of Cavan.

Community Healthcare Services are delivered through the HSE and its funded agencies to people in local communities, as close as possible to people’s homes.  Community Healthcare Services focus on keeping you well so that you can continue to live at home or close to home through our health promotion, disease screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation programs. You can refer yourself to most Community Healthcare Services or through your GP, public health nurse, community mental health team, etc. Services include - Primary Care, Social Care - Older Persons, Social Care – Disabilities, Mental Health, Health and Wellbeing, Quality, Safety and Service Improvement.

HSE Dublin North East Region includes the following hospitals;

• Beaumont Hospital
• Cavan General Hospital
• Connolly Hospital

• Louth County Hospital

• National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh

• Monaghan General Hospital

• Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

• Our Ladys Hospital Navan

• Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital

• Rotunda Hospital

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital is a 503 bedded Acute General Hospital which incorporates a Maternity Unit. The Maternity Unit provides maternity, gynaecology and neo-natal services to the catchment area of Counties Louth, Meath and North Dublin. The Maternity Unit is the largest Maternity Unit in the Region with approximately 2800 births per year. The Maternity Unit incorporates a 50-bed Obstetric Unit, a Midwifery Led Unit, a 15-bed Gynaecology Unit, an Ambulatory Gynaecology Unit and a Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The Obstetric Unit provides:

• Antenatal booking and return clinics
• Outreach booking and return clinics
• Antenatal High Risk and Diabetic clinics
• Fetal Assessment / Maternity Day Unit Service’s
• Antenatal and Postnatal Parent-craft Education
• Breastfeeding support and advice
• Antenatal in-patient care from early pregnancy
• Low and high dependency intrapartum care including water immersion and birth, and 24-hour epidural service.
• Postnatal care to mothers and babies including Postnatal Hubs
• Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit / Gynaecological Services
• Pregnancy Options Service
• Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service
• Specialist Teenage Pregnancy Service
• Specialist Bereavement Services
• Early Transfer Home Service
• Birth After Caesarean clinic

The Midwifery Led Unit provides a choice to women who are risk stratified as normal risk.  The service is delivered by a team of competent midwives and guided by evidence-based guidelines for normal risk women. The service is provided in a home from home setting to suit the needs of the woman and her partner.  Her care includes:

• Antenatal visits that ensure continuity of care by the midwife.
• Intrapartum care that is individualised and evidence based.
• Postnatal care up to 5 days postnatal following discharge.

The Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provides:

• Neonatal Care at levels 1, 2 and 3
• Out-patient follow up facility for high-risk infants, immediately following discharge  
• Developmental follow up clinics

Each candidate must, at the latest date for receipt of completed applications for the post:

• Be registered in the Midwifery Division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland) or be entitled to be so registered

And

• Have at least 5 years post registration experience of which 2 must be recent experience in specialist area of Midwifery.

And

• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role

And

• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development at the appropriate level

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 Midwifery Board Ireland)

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Clinical Midwife Manager 3 – Delivery Suite, Midwifery Led Unit, Neonatal Unit October 26