Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion
Mr. Kevin Brady:
The service is literally just being recruited. The consultant post is just being recruited in CHO 7 at the moment. The closing date was only in the past week or two, so as soon as that is ready to go we will be doing media campaigns on social media and giving information out about things. We recently had a communications officer appointed in the CHO. To go back to the initiatives that were talked about, he will be working with our director of nursing and our HR colleagues on looking at how we make Linn Dara look attractive in terms of the services it provides. We may get staff to do personal testimonies about their experience of working in Linn Dara to try to get that extra little piece to support Linn Dara and get up to that 51 members of staff we have been alluding to over the last while. Again, that goes across the full NDT with the clinical posts but nursing is our critical gap as well. If the Chair wants to contact me afterwards I can give her an up-to-date briefing. I corresponded with Deputy Ward recently on the development of that team as well. That will be later this year or early next year.
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