SLPC2644 Podiatrist, Senior in Sligo

About the Role

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.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, details of which will be made available at job offer stage. The successful candidate may be required to work in any service area within the vicinity as the need arises. A panel may be formed for Podiatrist, Senior Primary Care from which current and future permanent and specified purpose vacancies of full time or part time duration may be filled.

Requirements

In line with Sláintecare (2017) and the Department of Health’s Capacity review (2018), a shift in healthcare service provision is now required to place the focus on integrated, person-centred care, based as close to home as possible. The ECC Programme is underpinned by a set of key principles including:

• Eighty percent of services delivered in Primary Care are through the GP and CHNs;
• Identifying and building health needs assessments at a CHN level (approximate population of 50,000) based on a population stratification approach to include identification of people with chronic disease and frequent service users, thereby ensuring the right people get the right service based on the complexity of their health care needs;
• Utilisation of a whole system approach to integrating care based on person centred models, while promoting self-care in the community;
• The Older Persons and Chronic Disease Service Models set out an end to end service architecture for the identification and management of frail older adults with complex care needs and people living with chronic disease;
• Learning from, and delivering services, based on best practice models and the extensive work of the integrated care clinical programmes to date, particularly in the areas of Older Persons and Chronic Disease;
• Embed preventive approach to chronic disease into all services;
• Availability of a timely response to early presentations of identified conditions and the ability to manage appropriate levels of complexity related to same in the community;
• Resources applied intensively in a targeted manner to a defined population, implementing best practice models of care to demonstrate the delivery of specific outcomes and sustainable services; and,
• The need to frontload investment, coupled with reform to strengthen community services.

Details

Location: Sligo /South Donegal Community Healthcare Network. There is currently 1 vacancy available in Sligo/South Donegal Primary Care Team. The successful candidate will be required to take up duty as soon as possible after job offer stage. Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the closing date. Candidates will normally be given at least one week’s notice of interview. The timescale may be reduced in exceptional circumstances. Closing date: 17 Sept 2026 11:00 AM.

How to Apply

All informal enquiries can be addressed to: Aileen Gallagher, Podiatry Manager, Aileen.gallagher3@hse.ie, or Audrey.colreavy@hse.ie, CHN Manager Sligo South Donegal.