Job Title: Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Part-time (0.73fte )
Department: Urgent Care
Location: 360 Health Centre Carrickmines
A part-time (27.5 hours a week), permanent vacancy has arisen for the role of a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner (RANP) at the Vhi 360 Health Centre in Carrickmines, Dublin. The Urgent Care service provides Vhi members access to urgent care for minor injuries and illnesses. The RANP in Urgent Care will play a central role in providing nurse-led care in minor injuries and illness, in an evidence-based environment focused on quality and safety of care delivery.
About us
Our purpose at Vhi is to help our customers and patients live longer, stronger and healthier lives. A big part of delivering this purpose is to create a workplace culture where all colleagues feel connected, informed and motivated to do their best work. At Vhi, we have a set of shared values that drive the kind of behaviour we want and that will support colleagues to grow, develop and play a key part in our success.
Leading the way in private healthcare, we now offer an extensive range of healthcare services, including: urgent care, planned care, primary care, health screening, hospital @ home, women’s health, digital health, out of hours emergency dental care, and nurseline 24/7. The efficient running of these services is made possible by our teams of highly skilled healthcare professionals.
What we offer
In addition to offering a competitive basic salary, the offer comes with the following benefits:
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Bonus
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Health Insurance
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Pension
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Income Continuance
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EAP
In addition, Vhi offers a range of services and programs designed to support your physical, mental, and emotional health. Services include the Vhi 360 health centre with lifestyle and complementary therapies, an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering counselling, coaching, and expert advice, and individual support such as mindfulness resources and health coaching.
What will you do:
The advanced practice service at Vhi Urgent Care Centre is provided by nurses who practice at a higher level of capability as independent, autonomous and expert advanced practitioners. The overall purpose of the service is to provide safe, timely, evidenced based nurse-led care to patients who attend the Urgent Care Centre for treatment. This involves undertaking and documenting a completed episode of patient care for those patients with non-life- threatening injury and illness, comprehensively assessing, diagnosing, planning, treating and discharging patients in accordance with collaboratively agreed local policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines. The RANP in Urgent care will demonstrate advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, clinical leadership and complex decision-making abilities. The RANP in Urgent Care service will also provide clinical leadership and professional scholarship in the delivery of optimal nursing services and informs the development of evidence-based health policy at local, regional and national levels.
The RANP in Urgent Care will practice in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (NMBI 2014), the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015), Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017), and the Values for Nurses and Midwives in Ireland (Department of Health 2016).
The RANP in Urgent Care will practice to a higher level of capability across six domains of competence as defined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland Advanced Practice (Nursing) Standards and Requirements (NMBI 2017).
The six domains of competence are as follows:
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Professional Values and Conduct
- Clinical-Decision Making
- Knowledge and Cognitive Competences
- Communication and Interpersonal Competences
- Management and Team Competences
- Leadership and Professional Scholarship Competences
Each of the six domains specifies the standard which the RANP has a duty and responsibility to demonstrate and practise.
The scope of practice and Inclusion criteria for the RANP are as follows:
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Soft tissue injury to upper and lower limbs
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Suspected fractures to upper and lower limbs
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Lacerations and cuts including those that require suturing
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Minor head injury without loss of consciousness
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Minor burns and scalds < 2% TBSA
- Bites and stings (animal/insect only)
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Simple eye and ear injury
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Mild fever and suspected viral illness
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Mild upper respiratory tract infection/exacerbation of mild asthma
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Minor ENT ailments
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Simple skin rashes and infection (cellulitis)
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Non-traumatic musculoskeletal joint and back pain
What you need to be successful:
Education & Experience
Eligible applicants must:
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Be a Registered General Nurse on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland Register.
- Registered as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner on the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Division of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland register.
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Must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard of suitability and clinical, professional and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
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Completed a post graduate diploma in Emergency Nursing
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Demonstrates competencies relevant to context of practice.
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Demonstrate involvement in audit and research.
Demonstrate competence in managing a caseload of patients with non-life-threatening injury or illness. -
Demonstrate Alignment with Vhi Values.
Sustainability
At Vhi, we believe that the health of people and the health of the planet are interconnected. That’s why we’re on a journey towards an integrated model of healthcare that puts people and the planet at its heart.
Our Commitment to Inclusion and Accessibility
At Vhi, we are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations at every stage of the recruitment process for candidates with disabilities, neurodivergence, or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation, please contact [email protected], and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch via email.
Any information you provide will be treated confidentially within the recruitment team and used solely for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations during the application and recruitment process.
Vhi is an equal opportunities employer.
Ready to start your journey? Apply now.
