Clinical Nurse Manager 1 in Sligo

About the Role

Clinical Nurse Manager 1 in Sligo, Ireland

Full time, Part-time

€ 57,208 - 67,372

Closing date: 21 Oct 2026, 22:59

Integrated Healthcare Area Sligo Leitrim is responsible for the delivery of Primary and Community-based Services to meet the needs of local communities. Community healthcare services are a broad range of services, which, are provided outside of the acute hospital system and include Primary Care, Social Care, Mental Health, and Health and Wellbeing Services. These services are delivered through the HSE and its funded agencies to people in local communities, as close as possible to people’s homes.

Older Person Services are expanding in order to meet the needs of our aging population and offer more rewarding nursing career opportunities than you may be aware of. We are committed to providing progressive high standards of nursing care to clients with a wide range of simple to complex palliative, acute or long term care needs. In addition to our Older Person clients, many of our facilities also provide care to younger people living with chronic conditions. These nurse led services allow extensive opportunities to fully engage in the delivery of holistic quality care, working with many other health care professionals such as GPs, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Dieticians, Health Care Assistants and QRPS Teams to ensure the best outcomes for service users and residents.

Older Persons Services actively encourage and support continual professional development as well as extensive access to rewarding career pathways. Nurses with experience qualify to apply for a variety of promotional managerial roles, while those seeking specialist pathways can develop within roles such as Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Prescriber, Clinical Nurse Specialist roles and more.

Services are based in a vast number of locations all over Ireland. So if you want to work close to or far from home there are a huge number of choices.

Responsible and reporting to CNM2, the Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Nursing.

To be responsible for the management, care and treatment of service users, to ensure that the optimum standard of care is provided within the designated area(s) of responsibility.

The primary role of the CNM 1 will be one of clinical and professional leadership and development in the nursing team, including the development of nursing staff by means of in-service training, orientation of new staff and arranging for clinical experience and supervision of student nurses where this is appropriate.

Requirements

Professional / Clinical

• Be responsible for the co-ordination, assessment, planning, implementation and review of care for service users according to service standards.
• Provide safe, comprehensive nursing care to service users within the guidelines laid out by National Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Manage own caseload in accordance with the needs of the post.
• Encourage evidence based practice, using a care planning approach to nursing care.
• Participate in teams as appropriate, communicating and working in co-operation with other team members.
• Collaborate with service users, family, carers and other staff in treatment / care planning and in the provision of support and advice.
• Communicate verbally and / or in writing results of assessments, treatment / care programmes and recommendations to the team and relevant others in accordance with service policy.
• Plan discharge or transition of the service user between services as appropriate and participate in MDT Meetings.
• Assist in providing staff leadership and motivation, which is conducive to good staff relations and work performance.
• Ensure that service users and others are treated with dignity and respect.
• Maintain nursing records in accordance with local service and professional standards.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of nursing standards, protocols and guidelines consistent with the highest standards of patient care.
• Maintain professional standards in relation to confidentiality, ethics and legislation.
• In consultation with CNM2 and other disciplines, implement and assess quality management programmes.
• Participate in clinical audit as required.
• Devise and implement Health Promotion Programmes for service users as relevant to the post.
• Lead and implement change, with particular reference to recommendations of the Commission on Nursing and the health service reform programme.
• Operate within the Scope of Practice - seek advice and assistance from his / her manager with any cases or issues that prove to be beyond the scope of his / her professional competence in line with principles of best practice and clinical governance.

Health and Safety

• Play a central role in maintaining a safe environment for service users, staff and visitors e.g. by contributing to risk assessment.
• Assist in observing and ensuring implementation and adherence to established policies and procedures e.g. health and safety, infection control, storage and use of controlled drugs etc.
• Observe, report and take appropriate action on any matter which may be detrimental to service user care or wellbeing / may be inhibiting the efficient provision of care.
• Ensure completion of incident / near miss forms.
• Adhere to department policies in relation to the care and safety of any equipment supplied for the fulfilment of duty.
• Have a working knowledge of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Standards as they apply to the role for example, Standards for Healthcare, National Standards for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections, Hygiene Standards etc. and comply with associated HSE protocols for implementing and maintaining these standards as appropriate to the role.
• Support, promote and actively participate in sustainable energy, water and waste initiatives to create a more sustainable, low carbon and efficient health service.

Education and Training

• Engage in continuing professional development by keeping up to date with nursing literature, recent nursing research and new developments in nursing management, education and practice and to attend staff study days as considered appropriate.
• Provide a high level of professional and clinical leadership.
• Provide supervision and assist in the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes of staff and assigned students.
• Be familiar with the curriculum training programme for student nurses and be aware of the clinical experience required to meet the needs of the programme.
• Participate in the assessment of student nurse proficiency in clinical nursing skills as part of his/her role as preceptor.
• Engage in performance review processes including personal development planning as appropriate.

Personnel / Administrative

• Exercise authority in the running of the assigned area(s) as deputised by the CNM2.
• Provide the necessary co-ordination and deployment of nursing and support staff in designated area(s) of responsibility, ensuring that skill mix takes account of fluctuating workloads and ensuring maximisation of available resources.
• Assess and monitor trends through collection and analysis of activity and data and keeping CNM2 and Senior Nursing Management informed of changing work patterns, which may require increased resource allocation.
• Collaborate with the CNM2 in preparing, implementing and evaluating budget and service plans for the clinical area.
• Co-operate in managing all resources - including nursing and non-nursing staff within an agreed budget.
• Promote a culture that values diversity and respect in the workplace.
• Assist in maintaining the necessary clinical and administrative records and reporting arrangements / contribute to quality assurance by assisting in data collection.
• Ensure that patient care equipment is maintained to an appropriate standard.
• Ensure compliance with legal requirements, policies and procedures affecting service users, staff and other hospital matters.
• Participate actively in the Nursing Management structure by ‘acting up’ when required.
• Engage in IT developments as they apply to service user and service administration.