Clinical Nurse Manager, Shift Leader, General ICU, University Hospital

Details of Service

Cork University Hospital (CUH) has approximately 800 beds and this will increase further to 1,000 beds on completion of the transfer of additional services to the CUH campus. CUH currently employs approximately 3,269 (WTE) staff of multiple professions and is the primary teaching hospital for the Faculty of Health and Science in University College Cork (UCC). UCC is the Academic partner of the South/South West Hospital Group. CUH has very strong relationships with each of the six schools within the Science Faculty of UCC and this is a key area for future development to maximise the opportunities for both the service and academia.

CUH is a designated Major Trauma Centre for the Republic of Ireland due to the wide range of specialties delivered by the hospital – including Neurosciences, Cardiac Services, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Renal, Internal Medicine, Vascular, Ophthalmology, Urology, Plastic Surgery, Maxillary-Facial, Paediatrics, Intensive Care, Oncology, Haematology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Neonatology and Emergency Medicine.

CUH is the tertiary referral centre for the HSE Southern area, and the supra regional area of Limerick, Clare, Tipperary, Waterford and Kilkenny. CUH therefore acts as a regional centre for secondary and tertiary care for the catchment population of approx. 550,000 served by the HSE Southern area and a supra-regional centre for a total a population of 1.1 million.

In 2022, CUH had 72,928 ED presentations; 265,360 physical out-patient attendances; 38,457 virtual out-patient attendances; 30,379 inpatient discharges and 30,593 day cases.

Purpose of the Post

The post of CNM 2 has a pivotal role in service planning, co-ordinating, and managing activity and resources within the clinical area. The main responsibilities are: quality assurance, resource management, staffing and staff development, practice development, facilitating communication and professional / clinical leadership.

Intensive Care Unit

CUH has 3 Intensive care units 14 general L3 beds; 12 isolation L3 beds in L5HDU and 10 L3s cardiothoracic beds.

There are 18 staffed L3 beds and 6 L3s Cardiothoracic beds.

CUH is a model 4 tertiary referral hospital in the SSWHG and only Level1 Trauma centre in Ireland due to the presence of over 40 different medical and surgical specialities. This includes Neuro surgery and Cardiothoracic surgery.

Patient profile includes acute medical conditions, complex surgical procedures, burns, trauma, immunosuppressed patients, cardiology, paediatric and obstetrics who require intensive care.

There is an expected expansion of the intensive care that will include a standalone 54 bedded unit with individual rooms as per EU guidelines.

Informal Enquiries

Name: Emer Neau, Assistant Director of Nursing

Email: Emer.Neau@hse.ie

Contact Number: 087 7474210