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Post 2413 – Registered Nurse Nursing
Part - Time – Temporary
Stillorgan
The IBTS is currently recruiting a part-time, temporary, Registered Nurse based in the Nursing Department, Stillorgan.
At the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS), we are proud to be a trusted sector leader and essential healthcare partner. Powered by the generosity of our committed donors, our skilled workforce and our healthcare partnerships, we provide high quality blood and tissue products to the people of Ireland. The IBTS is a non-commercial state agency with responsibility for collecting, testing, processing and distributing blood and blood products within the Republic of Ireland. We are also responsible for the Irish Unrelated Bone Marrow Registry and the Tissue Bank. We rely completely on our community of voluntary non-remunerated donors to provide sufficient donations to ensure a consistent supply of blood and blood products to enable life-saving patient care. Our products and services are essential to healthcare and impact patient care across a broad range of medical and surgical specialties.
IBTS Collections clinics are nurse-led, managed by a Clinical Nurse Manager (CNM). The role of the Registered Nurse (RN) on the Stillorgan Clinic is to work with the CNM to support the organisation in progressing its strategic ambitions to grow and diversify our donor base to meet the evolving needs of patients and healthcare partners, to optimise operational resilience ensuring a solid foundation for sustainable growth, to future-ready our workforce, and drive targeted innovation to solve priority challenges. When required, the RN will act as CNM to lead the team
The RN is at all times expected to practice within the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) Code of Practice and Scope of Practice and within the IBTS Quality System and Code of Conduct
Essential Criteria:
• To be registered with NMBI (live register) in any Division
• Have at least 2 years post registration experience, relevant to the role of the Registered Nurse in the IBTS
• Demonstrate experience in managing people
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development (CPD)
• Excellent written communication skills, demonstrating a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Proven IT skills (Microsoft Office, Outlook) and experience of working with electronic Patient Management / Learning Management systems
Desirable Criteria:
• Full Driving Licence
The salary scale attached to the post is the Enhanced Nurses scale €45,259 to €58,424 (incl. LSI) pro rata per annum. Entry point onto the salary scale is dependent upon relevant experience.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 23.45 hrs (Irish Time) on 9th October 2026.
To apply you must complete the online application form by logging into www.giveblood.ie/jobs
Intending applicant should note that reviewing/short listing of applicants will be in accordance with the recruitment and selection criteria stated above. Satisfactory evidence of being able to fulfil the essential criteria of the job as stated above is essential and must be clearly demonstrated in the application. If the essential criterion has not been clearly demonstrated in the application the applicant will not be called for interview. Applications from existing (permanent and temporary) IBTS staff working temporary contracts will be considered in the context of overall workforce requirements of the Organisation.
We thank you for your interest in a career with the IBTS, however, if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you have not been successful at this time. We do hope, however, that this will not discourage you from applying for future opportunities with the IBTS.
IBTS reserve the right to close the application process early if there has been a sufficient level of qualified applications received before the closing date.
Citizen Requirements
Eligible candidates must be:
a) A citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA) – EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
b) A citizen of United Kingdom (UK)
c) A citizen of Switzerland in regards to the agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the movement of people
d) A non-EEA citizen who has a stamp 4 visa
e) A person awarded international protection under the International Protection Act 2015, or any family member entitled to remain in the State as a result of family reunification and has a stamp 4 visa
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f) A non-EEA citizen who is a parent of a dependant child who is a citizen of and resident in an EEA member state if the UK or Switzerland and has a stamp 4 visa.
To qualify candidates must meet one of the citizenship criteria above and produce formal supporting evidence of same, by the date of any job offer.
The IBTS is an equal opportunities employer.
We have a great range of benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you:
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Public Sector pension scheme
• We support and encourage a very strong work/life balance ethic and provide a generous annual leave allowance in addition to a range of attractive policies.
• Our public service salary scales are competitive, transparent and incremental
• Access to a range of learning and development resources and programmes, investing and encouraging lifelong learning for all our staff. .
• We strongly support a culture of continuous learning and provide staff with a range of formal and informal learning opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme offering free, independent and confidential counselling and support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The service includes confidential telephone and face-to-face counselling, parent and career coaching and an online wellbeing portal.
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