DSE562026: Regional Clinical Director / Stiúrthóir Cliniciúil Réigiúnach in Ireland

About the Role

HSE Dublin and South East has been formed as part of the Slaintecare programme. The health region is responsible for the delivery of acute and community healthcare across South Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary.

There is currently 1 specified purpose and part-time positions available for a duration of 3 years (up to 0.6 WTE, with the remaining 0.4 WTE on clinical activities) in HSE Dublin and South East. The nature of the part time element is to allow the post holder retain some clinical practice however the Regional Clinical Director will have a minimum commitment of 60%.

A panel may be formed as a result of this campaign for Regional Clinical Director for Dublin & South East from which current and future, permanent and specified purpose vacancies of full or part-time duration may be filled for the region.

The primary purpose of the Regional Clinical Director role is to lead the Clinical Function across the full continuum of care, encompassing hospital and community-based and public health services within the Health Region, including those provided by S 38 organisations.

The RCD as part of an executive management team will lead on overseeing quality of health services within the Health Region including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside their system to improve quality of care and outcomes.

The RCD as part of an executive management team will be accountable for providing high-quality clinical and professional leadership of all Health Region activities. This includes ensuring that clinical and care professional leadership is embedded at all levels of the Health Region.

The RCD will play a key role with others building partnerships and collaborating with relevant funded provider agencies, public health, local government, other partners, and local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity.

With the Regional Director of Nursing and Midwifery and other colleagues, the RCD will be accountable for securing multi-professional clinical and care leadership in delivery of the Health Region objectives.

Working with national clinical and digital programmes the RCD will ensure the Regional translation of these for implementation at local level and with the regional executive management team will foster a culture of research and improvement in partnership with academic and training institutions.

The RCD will influence and work collaboratively as part of a wider system, including with the Office of the Chief Clinical Officer, to create opportunities to make sustainable long-term improvements in population health with key partners. This may include developing approaches which are non-traditional in nature, ambitious and wide-reaching in areas which incorporate the wider determinants that have an impact on improving clinical outcomes, better life outcomes and reducing health inequalities for the population of the Region.

The RCD will work with the executive team to identify performance risks and issues related to the quality of patient care and working with relevant providers and partners to enable and deliver solutions.

As a registered professional, individuals in these roles will be accountable for their own practice and conduct in the role.

It will be for the Regional Executive Officer to determine what other specific corporate functions each executive board member is accountable for within the Region.

As a lead for the Regional Clinical Executive Team, the RCD will also oversee Networks of Care which are set up within the region. These Networks of Care will be responsible for; planning and assuring sustainable, quality & safe patient/ service user care through continuous improvement within the region; facilitating person-focused, integrated and multidisciplinary delivery of care for service users and patients.

The post holder will:

• Provide strategic, clinical, academic and whole system leadership/management across the Health Region implementing a population health approach that priorities access and integration;
• Have a clear focus on ensuring the highest calibre, safe, staffed and sustainable integrated care ensuring appropriate levels of national consistency, standardisation and collaboration across care networks / pathways of care;
• Ensure appropriate standards and professionalism and a focus on quality, patient safety, and improved patient experience across all services;
• Establish and lead the Regional Clinical Executive Team as a core element of system governance at Health Region level underpinning clinical decision making and service developments.
• Establish appropriate and fit for purpose clinical governance arrangements across the full patient pathway within the context of Integrated Healthcare Areas and associated substructures providing guidance on clinical policy issues and clinical matters;
• Maintain links with the academic, research and education community and institutions within the region, ensuring supply of clinical workforce and training to meet local needs;
• Report to the Regional Executive Officer in the delivery of improved outcomes and organisational effectiveness via service development and sustainability initiatives, as well as contributing to the realisation of the overall mission, vision, values and strategy of the Health Region and wider HSE;
• Be a system change leader in fostering networks and patient / service user partnerships to positively influence change and service improvement in the interests of local communities;
• Progress multi-disciplinary team working and collective leadership enabling staff to work to their full scope of practice to meet quality patient / service user standards;
• Advancing clinical practices and service innovation and excellence through policy development, education, research, digital technologies and academic alliances to ensure a sustainable response to meet future service and population needs.

Details

Location: HSE Dublin and South East

Salary: €238,221–€286,151 per year

Closing date: 5 Oct 2026

How to Apply

Informal Enquiries: We welcome enquiries about the role. Contact Martina Queally, Regional Executive Officer at [email protected] or Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer at [email protected].

For enquiries relating to the recruitment process, please contact: Tiegan Barnaville, Recruitment Lead at [email protected].

Candidates who require a Reasonable Accommodation/s to support their participation, at any stage, in the recruitment and selection process, should email Tiegan Barnaville, Campaign Lead at [email protected].

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