Job Description
Community Healthcare Sligo Leitrim is responsible for delivering Primary and Community-based Services to meet the needs of local communities.
Service Overview
Community healthcare services are the broad range of services provided outside of the acute hospital system, including 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 Public Health Nursing Service
The Public Health Nursing Service is a generalist service underpinned by the principles and values of primary care and public health, including equity and accountability. The Service is client-focused, needs assessed, and quality-driven.
The person-centred, holistic approach of the Public Health Nursing Service is based on client assessment using the Roper Logan Tierney model and Orem's Self-care Intervention ethos. High standards of evidence-based care are maintained through ongoing professional development and are demonstrated by evaluation and clinical audit.
Public Health Nursing staff members work as part of multi-disciplinary primary care teams and understand that effective communication and collaboration within these teams are integral to improving health outcomes for clients in the community.
The Service is committed to proactively developing community nursing in response to the changing health needs of society and to integrated working with acute and community hospitals to ensure a safe and seamless service.
Service Delivery
The Public Health Nursing Service is delivered within a range of settings: in the home, health centres, schools, and in various community settings.
As pivotal members of the primary care team, Public Health Nursing staff collaborate and partner with other members of the primary care team, acute/community hospital services, voluntary bodies, and statutory and non-statutory agencies.
Care Plans, assessment tools, and documentation templates have been designed for the assessment and monitoring of individual clients to support the delivery of nursing care.
Client Groups
* Antenatal and postnatal mothers
* Infants, preschool and school-age children
* Adults and older persons