Team Co-Ordinator LUCOCT2606

Reference

LUCOCT2606

Category

Health and Social Care Professionals

Grade

Social Care Worker, Leader 3030

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Health region

HSE Dublin and South East

County

• Dublin South

Location

Tallaght and Dun Laoghaire

Recruiter

St. John of God Community Services

Contract type

• Fixed Term Wholetime

Post specific related information

Team Co-Ordinator x 2

Lucena Dun Laoghaire x 1 and Lucena Tallaght x 1
Permanent contract, Full-time

(Senior Occupational Therapist / Senior Speech & language Therapist / Social Care Leader)

Role Summary

A CAMHS outpatient Team Coordinator plays a key role in facilitating the efficient day-to-day operation of the multidisciplinary team. The coordinator supports communication and collaboration between clinicians, families, referrers, and external agencies, while overseeing referral pathways, waiting lists, and service administration. They help ensure safe, effective, and person-centred care by coordinating clinical and operational processes that support high-quality service delivery.
Each of these roles will be working as Team Coordinator for two outpatient teams.

The successful candidate will be responsible to and report to the relevant Head of Department and the Community Mental Health Team consultant psychiatrist(s). The team coordinator will (this list is not exhaustive, and candidate should refer to job description):
• Ensure referrals are processed efficiently within the Community Mental Health services operational policy
• Liaise with Primary Care Teams (GPs and primary care professionals), and other relevant local community services, external agencies, self-help and other community resources
• Co-ordinate agreed CMHT clinical inputs and ensure all clinical / waiting list/ admission and discharge documentation is complete
• Assess, monitor and escalate clinical risks relating to waiting lists/discharge lists and liaise with the team consultant regarding any risk issues and communicate risk management plans to clinical team
• Monitor team members’ workloads in line with agreed discipline-specific workload guidelines (as agreed with relevant heads of discipline) in order to facilitate equitable workload distribution and appropriate service throughput
• Achieve and maintain agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with the Wait List Initiative funding in accordance with service and organisational requirements
• Engage in some discipline-specific clinical work as required to maintain professional accreditation and expertise
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc. candidates must have at the latest date of application:
Senior Speech & Language Therapist / Senior Occupational Therapist
• Recognised qualification in Speech and Language Therapy / Occupational Therapy
• CORU registration
• Minimum of three years’ post qualification experience
• Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the functions of the role including experience working in child and adolescent mental health
• Knowledge of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
• Flexibility, commitment, innovation, enthusiasm and resourcefulness

Social Care Leader
• Hold professional registration, or be eligible for registration, in line with CORU qualifications for Social Care workers. See list of recognised Social Care qualifications on CORU website under Social Care.
OR

• Hold one of the additional qualifications listed under section 38 of the Health Act 2005. Applicants who register under sufficiently relevant qualifications must fulfil the five-year practice requirement. See list of recognised Social Care qualifications on the CORU website under sufficiently relevant qualifications (see note 1 below*)

OR

• Applicants who satisfy the conditions set out in Section 91 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, (see note 2 below*), must submit proof of application for registration with the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU. The acceptable proof is confirmation from CORU that an application for registration as a Section 91 applicant was received by the 30 November 2025.
AND
• Provide proof of Statutory Registration on the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.

OR

• Candidates applying under section 38 or section 91 and those applying under the sufficiently relevant qualifications must submit proof of application for registration
AND
• Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience as relevant to the role within CAMHs.
AND
• Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability, including a high standard of suitability, for the proper discharge of the role.

Annual Registration
On appointment practitioners must maintain live annual Statutory Registration on the Social Care Workers Register maintained by the Social Care Workers Registration Board at CORU.
AND
Practitioners must confirm annual registration with CORU to the HSE by way of the Annual Patient Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).

Note 1*
Individuals who wish to register under sufficiently relevant qualifications must satisfy the 5-year practice requirement. An individual must have worked five years full-time (or an aggregate of five years full-time), in the Social Care Work profession.

Note 2*
Under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 candidates are considered Section 91 applicants if they qualified before the 30th of November 2023 and have been engaged in the practice of the profession in the Republic of Ireland for a minimum of 2 years (or an aggregate of 2 years fulltime), during the 5 years period prior to the Register opening on the 30th of November 2023.

Closing date

12/11/2026 17:00:00

Proposed interview date

TBC

Informal enquiries

• Lucena Joint OT Managers – Lynn Jenkinson (lynn.jenkinson@sjog.ie 01-4923596) or Nodlaig Olden (Nodlaig.olden@sjog.ie 01-2866886)
• Lucena Joint SLT Managers – Sarah Burns (sarah.burns@sjog.ie 087-2200548) or Mary Scullion (mary.scullion@sjog.ie 01-2809809)
• Lucena Director of Nursing & Social Care – Paul Hawkins (paul.hawkins@sjog.ie 01-4923596)

External link

https://api.occupop.com/job/application/team-co-ordinator-f17b5