Clinical and Medical Education & Training Funding 

Children’s Health Foundation is delighted to announce the introduction of a new Clinical and Medical Education & Training funding call to support CHI staff.

Applications will only be accepted as a single PDF document. Applications submitted in any other form, incomplete or multiple documents will be automatically excluded from the process.

On completion, the application form should be scanned and emailed in PDF format only to grants@childrenshealth.ie applications will only be accepted for consideration from this email account. 

This process is open to staff who wish to pursue Academic Study and Professional Training that will bring a benefit and impact within one of the following key pillars.

1. New and Emerging Services/Development Initiatives

2. Patient, Family & Staff Impact Initiatives

This process has been developed by Children’s Health Foundation to provide a robust and transparent way to allocate funding in a fair and consistent manner – while ensuring alignment with the needs of CHI.

Children’s Health Foundation Education and Training Funding Priorities and Parameters

Priority will be given to training that has a direct impact on the services and care provided to patients and their families.  Following a review of the applications received at our last Education and Training Funding Call the following priorities and parameters will apply for 2023.

Priority will be given to:

• Patient-focused team members – CHI staff members who have direct regular contact with patients as part of their role

• Training that will have a direct impact on child and patient health

• Applicants not in receipt of additional Education / Training funding

• Applicants who are not currently enrolled on an Education or Training course

• Permanent Staff members with a minimum of one years’ service

Factors to be taken into consideration when applying for funding:

• One application for training per person
• Training must be beneficial to the applicant’s work and departmental needs
• We are unable to approve group applications at this point, please complete one application per person.
• Children’s Health Foundation will fund 50% of the total course fee of successful applicants up to a maximum of €5,000.
• Successful applications of €1,000 or less will be fully funded.
• Documentation for all costs must be submitted with the application form.
• Travel expenses must be in line with the CHI Travel & Expense Policy, and per the CHI Education & Study Support Policy.