Reference: MRHT022675
Category: Management / Admin / ICT
Grade: Grade VII (0582)
Contract Type: Permanent Wholetime or Specified Purpose Wholetime
Health Region: HSE Dublin and Midlands
Location: Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore, Co. Offaly
Competition Type: Internal
Job Overview
The Grade VII Patient Safety Coordinator at Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore plays a pivotal leadership role in strengthening quality and patient safety systems across the hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to lead change initiatives and drive continuous improvement in service delivery.
This internal HSE opportunity is ideal for candidates with strong analytical capability, change management experience, and a proven track record of leading teams to deliver measurable service improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate patient safety and quality improvement initiatives across hospital services.
- Support the implementation of national and regional HSE quality and safety frameworks.
- Drive performance improvement projects aligned to hospital strategic objectives.
- Analyse data, interpret trends, and produce high-quality reports to inform decision-making.
- Monitor compliance with patient safety standards and governance requirements.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to embed best practice.
- Support incident management processes and learning systems.
- Provide leadership and guidance to staff to achieve service objectives.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Significant experience leading change and performance improvement initiatives in the health sector.
- Strong experience in data measurement, analysis, and report production.
- Proven ability to lead or manage teams effectively.
- Demonstrated capability to support safe, effective, and efficient hospital service delivery.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Eligibility: This post is open only to employees of the HSE, TUSLA, Section 38 agencies, or other statutory health agencies in line with WRC Agreement 161867.
Salary, Benefits & Working Hours
Salary is aligned with the HSE Grade VII (0582) payscale under the Department of Health Consolidated Salary Scales (effective 1 August 2025) :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} and will be commensurate with experience and service.
- Public sector pension scheme
- Annual leave entitlement in line with HSE policy
- Structured career progression opportunities
- Access to leadership and professional development programmes
- Permanent Wholetime or Specified Purpose Wholetime contract options
Location & Employer Information
This role is based at Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore, part of the HSE Dublin and Midlands region serving Longford, Westmeath, Offaly, Laois, Kildare, and parts of Dublin South and Wicklow.
The hospital provides a wide range of acute services and is committed to delivering high standards of patient safety, quality, and clinical governance.
Application Details
This is an internal competition and is only open to employees of the HSE, TUSLA, Section 38 agencies, or statutory health agencies.
Informal Enquiries:
Ms. Clare Conway
Quality and Patient Safety Manager
Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore
Telephone: 057 93 57896
Email: [email protected]
Closing Date: 06 March 2026, 12:00 PM
