Clinical Nurse Manager 2 Endoscopy

**Clinical Nurse Manager 2 - Endoscopy St Oliver's**

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**Permanent Contract, Full Time Hours.**

Are you an experienced Endoscopy Nurse seeking a leadership challenge? We are recruiting a CNM2 to join our dynamic, growing service at MUH.

MUH is recognised as a Centre of Excellence for Gastroenterology & Endoscopy, delivering a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic GI services and our Endoscopy services are scaling up - more procedures, more scope, more impact. This is an exciting time to be joining MUH as the new developments include additional suites with additional roles for all disciplines, especially nursing.

The CNM2 post is a pivotal clinical leadership role, guiding care delivery and ensuring compliance with best practice. You will lead and support a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team across endoscopy, decontamination, daycase and inpatient settings, supported by a CNM3, CNM1's and a Clinical Facilitator.

MUH supports career progression with study leave and development opportunities

This is a unique opportunity to influence service development, support advanced nursing roles, and ensure the highest standards of clinical care and patient safety.

The Endoscopy CNM2 will report to the Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON), Divisional Lead and is professionally accountable to the Director of Nursing (DON).

**Responsibilities Include:**

• Provide a high level of professional and clinical leadership in all aspects of nursing care.
• Act as positive and accountable role model in providing direct patient care.
• Assess, evaluate and review the requirements of individual patient needs prior to their endoscopy procedure.
• Manage patient care to ensure the highest professional standards an evidence-based care planning approach.
• Identify objectives, evaluate and manage the implementation of best practice, policies and procedures.
• Provide specialist information and education to patients and their families with regard to improving their understanding, coping and effective management of their upcoming endoscopy procedure.
• Manage the caseload of all patients undergoing elective endoscopy (urgent, routine and surveillance) procedures within the Mercy University Hospital.
• Use a patient centred approach in all aspects of practice.
• Provide patients/carers with advice, support and reassurance via telephone calls.
• Respect the dignity and confidentiality of patients, serving as their advocate.
• Record information on patients electronically (iPMS), which will provide data for auditing the service.
• Develop, contribute to and review SOPs, policies, protocols, patient information leaflets and other associated documentation.
• Identify and implement health promotion strategies for patient/client groups in accordance with public health agenda including diabetes/obesity/smoking cessation.
• Contribute to service planning and budgetary processes through use of audit data and specialist knowledge.
• Review policies, procedures, guidelines and protocols in relation to the gastrointestinal service in regards a pre assessment pre-endoscopy procedure to ensure they are continually updated in line with best practice evidence.
• Be self-directed in his/her learning to ensure continued professional credibility.

**Essential Eligibility Criteria -** ***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 Cnaimhseachais na hEireann) or entitled to be so registered.
• Have at least 5 years post registration full time (or an aggregate of 5 years post registration full time) experience of which 2 years (or an aggregate of 2 years post registration full time experience) 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.
• 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.

**Desirable Eligibility Criteria****:**

• Post Registration Qualification in the related area, or commitment to undertake.
• Previous JAG accreditation experience.

**NMBI Annual Registration - On appointment, practitioners must:**

• Maintain live annual registration on the relevant division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the NMBI.
• Confirm annual registration with NMBI to the MUH by way of the annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).

**Closing Date for applications is 1pm on Friday 13th March 2026**

**MUH reserve the right to create a panel for this post from which permanent, fixed term and specified purpose vacancies of a full or part time duration may be filled.**

**Mercy University Hospital (MUH)**

MUH is a growing voluntary hospital in the heart of Cork City. We have over 1,800 staff providing complex diagnostic, medical and surgical care through our inpatient, day patient, outpatient and emergency services.

We are a teaching hospital, a centre of national and international excellence, and are renowned for our research and tertiary services.

Providing 24/7 acute surgical, acute medical and critical care, MUH now has multiple sites across the city and continues to expand. We recently opened our Blarney Rehabilitation Unit, a post-acute care specialist rehabilitation unit with 50 beds in Blarney, County Cork.

We support staff development with approx. 100 promotions annually. We prioritise work life balance with 28% of our team working part time hours. We offer nationally agreed enhanced Salary Scales, Pension Scheme, excellent holidays, canteen, and Study Leave and Assistance.

From Cardiac Care to Intensive Care, our varied specialist services offer real career choice to our team. For fully registered NMBI recognised nurses, we offer a generous relocation package (if coming from abroad).

We live by our Core Values of Compassion, Excellence, Justice, Respect and Team Spirit.