Mr. Padraig Dunne
Allocations Officer, School of Nursing & Midwifery

Pàdraig started his career as a Mental Health Nurse and graduate with a BNS from TCD and St. Patricks University Hospital. He is very proud of this formative career and feels it has prepared him for many opportunities in clinical, education, research, management and senior management roles. While working fulltime and raising a young family he completed his Post Graduate with Manchester University, focusing specifically on consultation and change management in health care. In 2008 he completed his master degree in clinical therapies with the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

" I feel the diversity in my education choices have provided me with a wealth of knowledge and expertise to apply in any work and life challenge"

Applying a transformational / people-orientated leadership style, he currently leads the Clinical Allocations Team in the School of Nursing and Midwifery with an energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate focus. Pàdraig has full oversight of multiple major change management projects in order to ensure compliance with standards set for clinical education by the partner Healthcare institutions, European university colleagues, Trinity College Dublin and Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. This work includes developing policy and procedure, as well as ensuring that external placement sites remained compliant. Pàdraig recently leads his team in the development and implementation of a new Student Timesheet Management System in order to streamline and simplify the production and organisation of documents. This involved undertaking cross-institutional negotiations and large-scale implementation of the new system in a way that was appropriate for all parties involved.

As a part of the team selected to develop an assessment documentation architecture for NMBI nursing national Competencies, he collaborated and communicated with 13 higher educational institutions, collating details on individual processes and was successful in developing a framework suitable for all involved, managing conflicting priorities and streamlining policies.

In recent years Pàdraig worked as Lead for the Clinical Erasmus programme in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, negotiating with multiple stakeholders to establish many international clinical areas for student mobility. This involved personal inspections and audits of international sites, managing stakeholder expectations for placement students and reviewing the standards and requirements of each Higher Institution.

An experienced senior manager, Pàdraig led teams and task forces across multiple areas, most recently in response to the COVID pandemic, orchestrating crisis management and responses in relation to clinical placements for Nursing and Midwifery students. He was able to guarantee the continuation of placements for students in hospitals who originally cancelled in response to the pandemic. This led to over 1,500 students across Undergraduate, Postgraduate and master's courses to be able to continue with their placement programmes. Pàdraig is currently serving as a national representative for his HEI clinical colleagues on the Department of Health- National COVID-19 oversight group for Nursing and Midwifery. Specifically focused on the retention of clinical placements for students in collaboration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the HSE and Clinical Colleagues.

Having acted as an executive member of multiple boards and committees, Pàdraig has provided strong leadership and development to his team, creating an environment of informed decision making and the facilitation of ideas. This allows for the best ideas to be voiced and rapid, successful resolution of issues to be reached.

"I pride myself on a transformational / people-orientated leadership style, encouraging an environment of constant development and allowing for the growth of all team members."