HSEMW26.079 Clinical Nurse Specialist (Perinatal Mental Health Care) Sain-Altra Cliniciúil (Meabhairshláinte)

Mid-West Mental Health Services covers the counties of Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary and delivers a comprehensive service to a varied and often complex group of service users.

The person appointed to this post will work within Mid-West Mental Health Services. He/she will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering a co-ordinated approach to client care.

The types of services provided are as follows;

· There are four approved centres in the Mid-West (i) Acute Psychiatric Unit, 5B, Limerick University Hospital (50 beds); (ii) Acute Psychiatric Unit, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Clare (39 beds); (iii) Tearmann Ward, St. Camillus Hospital (13 beds – Psychiatry of Later Life) and (iv) Cappahard Lodge, Ennis (34 beds – Rehab).

· Community Mental Health Teams – General Adult Mental Health Teams operate within the Mid-West Community Healthcare region providing a range of services to people with mental health issues. Allied Health Professionals are a core part of the Community Mental Health Teams.

· Psychiatry of Later Life - There are four Old Age Psychiatry teams across the Mid-West.

· Rehabilitation Psychiatry – There are two rehabilitation teams providing care for those with enduring mental illness in the Midwest.

· Liaison – There is one such team in the Mid-West.

· CAMHS – There are six Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Teams across the Mid-West.

· Perinatal Mental Health Service – There is one such team in the Mid-West.

· ADHD Adult Mental Health Service – There is one such team in the Mid-West.

· CAST team- There is one such team in the Mid-West

· Crisis Resolution Team- There is one such team in the Mid-west

The person appointed to this post will work within the Services working as part of multi-disciplinary teams delivering a co-ordinated approach to client care.

Mental health describes a spectrum that extends from positive mental health, through to severe and disabling mental illness. A strategic goal for mental health services is to promote the mental health of our population in collaboration with other services and agencies including reducing the loss of life by suicide. The mental health reform programme reaffirms the move from traditional institutional model of mental health care, towards a recovery focussed, clinically excellent model that involves service users in all aspects of the design and delivery of the service in line with Vision for Change policy (2006). The vision for mental health services is to support the population to achieve their optimal mental health through the following key priorities:

Ensure that the views of service users, family members and carers are central to the design and delivery of mental health services.

Design integrated, evidence based and recovery focussed Mental Health Services.

Deliver timely, clinically effective and standardised safe mental health services in adherence to statutory requirements.

Promote the mental health of our population in collaboration with other services and agencies including reducing loss of life by suicide.

Enable the provision of mental health services by highly trained and engaged staff and fit for purpose infrastructure.

The person appointed to this post will work as part of multi-disciplinary teams delivering co-ordinated individualised care to clients in Psychiatry of Later Life Community Mental Health Teams and Psychiatry of Later Life liaison team.