Clinical Practice Support Nurse

Post Title: Clinical Practice Support Nurse
Post Status: Permanent
Department: Emergency Department, Emergency Directorate
Location: Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9
Reports to: Directorate Nurse Manager
Salary: Appointment will be made on CNM 2 Pay scale (€62,699 - €79,227 LSI) at a point in line with Government pay policy.
Hours of work: 37.5 Hours Per Week
Closing Date: 01/09/2026 at 12:00pm - Please note the hospital reserves the right to close the competition early should a substantial number of applications be received.

Position Summary:

The Clinical Practice Support Nurse (CPSN) is a key member of the Nursing Management Team within the Emergency Directorate. The role centres on the identification, support and provision of learning opportunities in clinical nursing practice.

The CPSN is responsible for promoting best practice through staff development and education. The Clinical Support Nurse for the Emergency Directorate acts as a resource facilitator to assist individual staff nurses to reach their full potential at each stage of development. The successful candidate must have appropriate interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills to perform the role effectively.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Clinical Practice

• Ensure all staff practice nursing within the code of practice set by NMBI Specific responsibilities of the Clinical Practise Support Nurse include but are not limited to:
• Orientation of new nurses
• Assist in the facilitation of Mandatory education
• Provide clinical support and ongoing education of nurses, and other members of the Multidisciplinary team
• Assessment of nurses using clinical competencies
• Identify and respond to the learning needs of individuals and the service
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of education within the Emergency Department directorate
• Collaborate with Clinical Nurse Managers to ensure Staff Nurses are allocated to facilitate a broad range of experiences, and thus develop their skills.
• Develops evidence-based educational materials and evaluate their effectiveness, and regularly
update same to reflect best practice.
• Take charge of shift with a learner to promote their development, and to facilitate other Clinical Nurse Managers to maintain their clinical skills or to relieve them to perform their allocated. management duties.
• Adopt a flexible approach to personal duty roster.
• Assist in updating Policies, Procedures, Protocols and Standards in the Emergency Department Directorate liaising with all staff.
• Act as a positive role model by adhering to directorate and hospital Policies procedure and guidelines
• Work alongside new and developing nurses demonstrating best practice guidelines and mentorship.

Education and Development

• Assess and identify individual staff nurses learning and development needs and develop and implement training programmes to meet these needs in liaison with the Clinical Nurse Managers.
• To actively participate in the development and implementation of post graduate and specialist practice modules in Emergency Nursing Programmes.
• Provide leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of post graduate Emergency Nursing Programmes to include the development and delivery of lectures/tutorial presentations, providing advice to students regarding course work and serving as an examiner of course work as appropriate. (This work will be undertaken in collaboration with senior clinical staff and designated course coordinator).
• Introduce ongoing learning strategies appropriate to the area. Such strategies to include clinical case presentations, tutorials, journal club and instructional sessions regarding the use of medical technology.
• Carry out and document progress of staff giving feedback regarding strengths and weaknesses
in collaboration with Clinical Nurse Managers.
• Identifies the individual and collective learning needs of the delivery of formal and informal education. Acts as a role model by demonstrating skilled nursing care in the clinical situation, and work with staff in the clinical environment.
• Encourage staff to participate in development programmes where staff have the opportunity for their personnel development.
• Develops methods of assessing the quality and effectiveness of the training / education programmes.
• Liaise with clinical nurse managers in relation to poor performance issues of individual staff members as required.
• Coordinate the orientation / induction programme for new staff in collaboration with the Clinical Nurse Manager, Course Coordinator and the Centre of Education and work with these nurses clinically ensuring they receive theoretical and practical training to make them safe practitioners.
• Contribute to the nursing education component of the strategic plan of the organisation.
• Keep individual staff nurses informed of their progress and encourage feedback regarding strengths, weaknesses, potential and need for further clinical training and experience. Deal effectively with non performance.
• Participate in the organisation of an end of year Hospital Clinical Nursing Scientific Symposium and Emergency Nursing Annual Conference.
• Liase with units/specialities nationally and internationally and any other group that will enhance clinical development.
• Co-ordinate and facilitate the review of nursing practice and guidelines for practice by: Examining existing nursing practices and guidelines for practice in consultation with clinical nurse managers, staff nurses and the multidisciplinary team. This will involve coordination of the Policy Review Group and may involve setting up project workshops relating to the review of complex issues of nursing practice such as care planning or patient assessment technique.
• Reviewing new literature relating to the specific area under review and formulating draft guidelines for further consideration.

Self-Development

The post holder is expected to:
• Actively pursue opportunities to advance own professional knowledge and skill, and participate in relevant ongoing professional development programs.
• Maintain and update knowledge and keep abreast of relevant professional development and all current trends within the speciality of Emergency nursing.
• Maintaining and updating personal skills in clinical nursing by “hands on” nursing commitment.
• Discuss present performance and future needs with the CNM 3 and Directorate Nurse Manager on a regular basis.
• Drive new changes that will enhance patient care.

The job description represents the main functions of the role and is subject to review and amendment to reflect changing practice in the service.

Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post.
Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.

Mandatory Requirements:

1. Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc:
(a) Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition
• Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI] (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann) or entitled to be so registered.
• Have at least 5 years post registration experience (or an aggregrate of 5 years fulltime post registration experience) of which 2 years must be in the speciality or related area.
• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.
• Candidates must demonstrate evidence of continuous professional development

(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard of suitability and clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role.

2. Annual registration
• On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevant division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).
• Confirm annual registration with NMBI to the HSE by way of the annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).

3. Health
Candidates for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of
undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a
Reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

4. Character
Candidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.

Desirable Criteria:
• A management/leadership course is desirable.

Informal Enquiries ONLY to:

Name: Fiona Thorpe
Title: Directorate Nurse Manager
Email address: fionathorpe@beaumont.ie
Telephone: 01-852-8713

If an appointee has previously been employed in the Civil or Public Service and that appointee is entitled to or in receipt of a pension from the Civil or Public Service or where a Civil/ Public Service pension comes into payment during the appointee’s re-employment that pension will be subject to abatement in accordance with Section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2012.Please note: In applying for this position you are acknowledging that you understand that the abatement provisions, where relevant, will apply. It is not envisaged that the employing Department/ Office/ Body will support an application for an abatement waiver in respect of appointments to this position.

Please be aware that Beaumont Hospital will never ask candidates to pay money at any stage of the recruitment process. Any requests for payment, bank details, or financial information in connection with a job application should be treated as fraudulent. If you receive such a request claiming to be from Beaumont Hospital, please do not respond and report to the recruitment department immediately