Dublin: Enjoy a rewarding career and generous benefits as a registered psychiatric nurse with St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS).
Opportunities for Mental Health Staff Nurse Positions in General Adult & Adolescent Services now available.
St Patrick’s Nursing team plays a vital part in all mental health care and treatment. Our nurses work across all areas of our services – from inpatient and outpatient care to day programmes and remote services. We offer diverse and varied nursing roles, from general nursing care delivery and supportive counselling right through to specialist and advanced practice in assessment, admissions, nursing education, psychotherapy and more.
Human rights are embedded in everything we do here at SPMHS, with key areas of work and activity including:
- The delivery of high quality mental healthcare
- The involvement of service users in their care and treatment
- The progression of mental health research and training of staff
- The promotion of people’s rights and tackling of mental health stigma.
Benefits for nursing staff
If you are looking for a nursing role which gives you the opportunity to care for others, to work across multiple mental health programmes, and to achieve your career goals, we would love to hear from you.
By becoming part of our nursing team, you can receive a permanent post and automatically join our enhanced nurse pay scale with a minimum starting salary of €40,296.
In addition to your basic pay, you will also receive a sign-on bonus of €3,000 (subject to six months’ service) and a ward location allowance of €1,995.
We take a proactive approach to career advancement for our nursing staff, offering opportunities for you to form an active part of our multidisciplinary teams, to act in more senior roles to gain experience, and to be promoted into leadership and management roles.
Other employee benefits you receive include:
- flexible hours, with remote and hybrid working opportunities
- additional payments for Sunday, public holidays and night duty
- generous annual leave and career break opportunities
- a flexible Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with 10% employer contribution
- external and in-house Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training
- access to funding for postgraduate education
- allowances for specialist areas of training and work
- protective leaves, such as Maternity Leave (26 weeks paid, plus up to 16 weeks unpaid), paid Parent’s Leave, two weeks paid Paternity Leave, and force majeure.