Responsibilities:
Oversee nursing clinical care delivery
- Establish frameworks for hospital-to-community models of care that include funding, manpower, pilots, outcome measurements and implementation.
- Oversee nursing practices and care delivery outcomes.
- Develop strategies to empower and engage patients and caregivers.
- Promote inter-professional collaboration in care delivery.
- Measure outcomes of advanced or specialized nursing practices to assess and improve new interventions.
Drive nursing quality and patient safety
- Lead multi-disciplinary work groups to improve patient and staff safety.
- Establish frameworks for critical communications.
- Manage adverse events according to organizational frameworks.
- Establish an open culture to facilitate quality and patient safety development.
- Establish nursing infection prevention and control policies and procedures.
- Lead nursing to achieve local and international accreditations.
- Guide nursing clinical audits.
- Adopt new technology and electronic tools and devices for better quality and patient safety outcomes.
Requirements:
- Qualified Registered Nurse with current SNB Registration
- Post-basic certificate / Advanced Diploma in a Nursing specialty
- Degree in health related subject or equivalent
- Preferably a Master Degree in Health related subject or equivalent (or working towards)
- Minimum of 10 years progressive clinical and administrative acute care experience
- 3 years in the role of Assistant Director of Nursing of a medium to large size acute care hospital
- Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) is preferred
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of current issues in nursing
- Good understanding of principles and practices to deliver reliable and safe services
- Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team
- Proven project management skills, with evidence of delivering large scale projects
- Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate teams
- Excellent leadership and analytical skills
- Team Player
