Dskww/ / Dietitian, Clinical Specialist, Physical Health Of Adults With Common Mental Conditions

Please note the following:

• CV’s will NOT be accepted.
• All correspondence will be via Rezoomo.

Informal Enquiries:

Name: Brendan Harold

Grade: Dietitian Manager

Email: Brendan.Harold@hse.ie

Tel: 086 069 3879

Details of Service:

The Dublin South Kildare and West Wicklow Mental Health services are located in the Dublin Midlands region spread across 3 Integrated Health Areas. Our area comprises Dublin, south of O’Connell Bridge, throughout parts of the south city and county e.g. Rathmines, Clondalkin, Tallaght and Lucan, across all of Kildare and West Wicklow. Mental Health Services are informed by a person-centred and recovery approach and are provided through various different settings including acute inpatient services, day hospitals and outpatient clinics.

The community eating disorder team is a new development and is part of the national clinical care programme for eating disorders, which is a collaboration between the HDE, Bodywhys and the College of Psychiatrists in Ireland. The new adult eating disorder team will provide a service to adults with a diagnosis of an eating disorder. The four main presentations are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and ARFID. As the post is linked with the national clinical care programme, there are constant CPD updates, networking and opportunities.

The HSE Dublin and Midlands serves a population of circa 1,077,639 providing health and social care services to communities living within Dublin West, Dublin South-West, Dublin South City, Laois, Longford, Offaly, Kildare, West Wicklow and Westmeath. Currently, approximately 30k staff work within the HSE Dublin and Midlands Region providing key health and social care services with a budget of €3 billion.

The region has 4 Integrated Health Areas, serving a population of around 300,000 and take account of local geographies, population size, needs and services. The IHA areas are HSE Dublin South City and West, HSE Dublin South West, HSE Kildare and West Wicklow and HSE Midlands and the Integrated Healthcare Managers are in post since October 2024. IHAs bring together both acute and community services as well as other non-HSE providers and are crucial to supporting and enabling integrated care. Within the 4 Integrated Health Areas there are 9 acute hospital (model 4s and 3s, mix of statutory and voluntary providers) delivering a full range of acute hospital, women and children’s services, in addition to specialised radiation and oncology care. There are also 6 integrated care hubs/csts and 20 Community Health Networks who together will serve the population health needs of our area.

The reform programme for HSE Dublin and Midlands provides an opportunity to shape the future of health and social care in a rapidly changing environment and to continue to implement safer better health care through integrated services. Health Regions will be the primary service coordination and delivery units for the vast majority of health and social care services provided across Ireland. They will provide the governance and organisational arrangements to enable planning, management and delivery of care for people and for communities across their region.