Joe currently serves as the National Director of Public Involvement, Culture and Risk Management at the HSE. This entails working in close partnership with patients, service users and colleagues across the health system to drive patient and public involvement in the co-design and co-production of health and care services. Joe also leads the organisation culture function to support the wider system in developing and promoting a positive, high quality, accountable, patient, service user and public centred service culture. As Chief Risk Officer Joe leads a team, who support the emerging Regions and national centre in risk management, compliance, data protection and protected disclosures.

In his spare time Joe is a volunteer emergency first responder with the National Ambulance Service in his local community north of Dublin.