Kickstart your nursing career with SPMHS
SPMHS is Ireland’s largest independent, not-for-profit mental health service provider. We are hiring mental health nurses to join our team to work with both adult and adolescent services. If you are newly-graduated and looking for a position, or studying nursing and looking for somewhere to complete your third-year placement, SPMHS is the place to get your career started.
When you are starting your nursing career, getting experience in as many different areas and with as many different disciplines as possible is important to you to allow you to grow and develop.
By joining us as a student or graduating nurse, you will have the benefit of working in positions for various programmes which specialise in a specific mental health condition, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, psychosis recovery, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, young adults’ mental health, older adults’ mental health, alcohol and chemical dependency and psychiatry in later life.
Working across different areas of mental healthcare in this way allows you to further your knowledge and skillset, which will help you progress in your continuing professional development (CPD).
Working with us also allows for proactive career planning within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) setting, access to funding to pursue your postgraduate education, and access to external and in-house CPD training.
Career development opportunities
Here in SPMHS, we offer you many opportunities for career development, including:
- acting in a more senior role to gain experience, while also receiving support from senior staff
- using your experience to go forward for promotion, including the roles of Clinical Nurse Manager I/II/III for both ward and non-ward nurses and Team Liaison Nurse
- working with MDTs which include consultant psychiatrists, registrars, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, addiction therapists, cognitive behavioural therapists, pharmacists, dieticians and many more
- working in a variety of inpatient, outpatient and day patient mental health services, along with some homecare and remote services
- planning your career, with opportunities to be a key worker across various mental health programmes.
Excellent nursing pay packages
Our rates of pay are very competitive, and all staff nurses starting work with us are automatically paid from our enhanced nurse salary scale, without the need to sit interviews or meet certain criteria to join this scale. Graduate nurses start straight in at Point 2 of this scale, giving a €45,466 starting salary which then rises each year.
Some other incentives for working with us at SPMHS include:
- flexible hours
- generous annual leave entitlements
- enhanced payments for Sunday, public holidays and night duty
- leave of absence opportunities for career breaks
- opportunities for remote and hybrid working for some services
- a flexible Defined Contribution (DC) Pension Scheme with 10% employer contribution
- VHI group health insurance scheme
- paperless working through the first Electronic Health Record (EHR) from an Irish mental health provider
- protective leaves, including Maternity Leave (26 weeks paid, plus up to 16 weeks unpaid), paid Parent’s Leave, two weeks paid Paternity Leave, force majeure, and more
- eligibility for Qualification Allowances and Community Allowances for specialist areas of work.
Workplace wellbeing and other benefits
There are lots of other benefits to starting your nursing career with SPMHS.
Our locations are very central in Dublin, making it easy for you to get to and from work and enjoy being close to the city centre: St Patrick’s University Hospital (SPUH) and Willow Grove Adolescent Unit are a three-minute walk from Heuston train station, directly on the LUAS red line, and within walking distance for Dublin buses and cross-county buses, while St Patrick’s Hospital Lucan is on the N4 with multiple public transport options.
We also operate Bike to Work and Taxsaver Commuter Ticket schemes, and provide free onsite parking.
Staff wellbeing is very important to us, and so we also provide:
- a subsidised onsite canteen
- a nursing staff recreational area, which includes showers, table tennis, a pool table and darts
- an onsite gym
- an active Staff Wellbeing Committee, which organises a wide variety of activities for staff
- an award-winning workplace menopause programme.
Learn more about SPMHS
At SPMHS, the work we do is grounded in human rights as we move towards a society where everyone is empowered to live mentally healthy lives.
Our key activities include:
- delivering high quality mental health services
- ensuring our service users are involved in their own care and treatment
- doing research into mental health and providing training for staff
- advocating for people’s rights and ending mental health stigma.
We provide inpatient care in our Dublin locations through St Patrick’s University Hospital; St Patrick’s Hospital Lucan (St Edmundsbury); and Willow Grove Adolescent Unit. Our Homecare Service also offers all the elements of our inpatient programmes, but delivered to service users remotely at home. We offer day patient services through our Wellness and Recovery Centre; provide community and outpatient care through our Dean Clinics; and run remote services through online technologies.
We pride ourselves on the warm and friendly nature of our hospitals and clinics to ensure that our staff and the people in our care are surrounded with a positive atmosphere.
Apply for a nursing job
To start your career with us, you must:
- hold current registration or be eligible for registration on the psychiatric register with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
- have proven ability to establish solid working relationships within a healthcare organisation and with service users
- have excellent level clinical knowledge.
Current intern nurses due to qualify this year are welcome to apply.
All successful applicants will be placed on a panel and job offers will be made based on our requirements.
If you have any questions about full-time and part-time job opportunities for nurses in SPMHS, please contact Emma Cunningham in our Human Resources Department by emailing hr@stpatricks.ie or phoning +353 1 249 3435.
