Clinical Nurse Manager 2, Medical/Surgical

Mercy University Hospital; Ballyerra; On-site; EUR 63,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Excellent holidays

Canteen

Study Leave and Assistance

Relocation package (from abroad)

Job summary

Mercy University Hospital in Cork City, Ireland, is seeking a Clinical Nurse Manager II (CNM2) for Medical/Surgical to join the Nurse Management Team on a permanent, full‑time basis. The role focuses on implementing and evaluating nursing services, maintaining an optimum clinical environment, and fostering a robust clinical learning environment.

The CNM2 will provide professional leadership, support direct patient care, ensure confidentiality, coordinate mandatory training, and drive audits to

Qualifications

• Be registered in the General Division of the NMBI (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland).
• Have at least 5 years post registration experience, with 2 years in the related area.
• Provide evidence of clinical and professional managerial ability, leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Provide evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Evidence of leading clinical practice initiatives.
• Evidence of promotion of multi-disciplinary teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high level of professional and clinical leadership in all aspects of nursing care.
• Act as a positive and accountable role model in providing direct patient care.
• Establish and maintain caring and therapeutic interpersonal relationships with individuals, clients, groups, and communities.
• Ensure confidentiality on all matters.
• Ensure that mandatory training and professional development programmes are provided for Nursing and Nursing support staff.
• Ensure excellent standards of clinical nursing care are in operation and that regular monitoring is undertaken through audit.
• Use audit outcomes to develop action plans and support their implementation.
• Foster a culture of audit and action-based outcomes.
• Maintain good working relationships across the nursing service and with other disciplines.
• Monitor performance related to Human Resource management and development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Clinical oversight

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

NMBI General Division registration

Job description

Clinical Nurse Manager 2, Medical/Surgical

Mercy University Hospital

Location: On site / Cork City, Cork, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare | Nursing & Midwifery
Annual Salary range:from € 62,699.00 to € 79,227.00

Clinical Nurse Manager II (CNM2) - Medical/Surgical

Permanent, Full Time Hours.

The CNM2 is an essential member of the Nurse Management Team. This involves the implementation and evaluation of nursing services, the maintenance of the optimum clinical environment, the clinical working environment, and the enhancement of an effective clinical learning environment.

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.
• Establish and maintain caring and therapeutic interpersonal relationships with individuals, clients, groups, and communities.
• Ensure confidentiality on all matters.
• Ensure that appropriate mandatory training and professional development programmes are provided for Nursing and Nursing support staff to meet the learning needs of the organisation, including staff training needs analysis and situation specific service needs.
• Ensure that excellent standards of clinical nursing care are in operation and that regular monitoring of Nursing and Nursing support staff care is undertaken through audit.
• Use the outcomes of audit to develop action plans and support their implementation.
• Foster a culture of audit and action-based outcomes.
• The extent to which good working relationships are fostered and maintained throughout the nursing service and between nursing and other disciplines.
• The effectiveness of performance in relation to Human Resource management and development.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Be registered in the General Division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI / Bord Altranais agus Cnaimhseachais ns hEireann).
• Have at least 5 years post registration experience of which 2 recent years must be in the related area.
• Provide evidence of clinical and professional managerial ability, leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Provide evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Evidence of leading clinical practice initiatives.
• Evidence of promotion of multi-disciplinary teamwork.

Closing date for applications is 1pm on Friday 6th November 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.