Job Description
TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES:
The Assistant Head Nurse will be responsible for carrying out the following duties:
1. PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
- 1Provide strong professional nursing leadership to staff. Lead with a supportive
- management approach, enabling staff members to reach their potential and ensuring
- support within defined areas of responsibility.
- Demonstrate good clinical practice alongside the nursing team on a regular basis, ensuring clinical credibility is maintained.
- Provide clinical support and advice to patients, caregivers, families and all grades of
- staff.
- Maintain high visibility within the clinical area ensuring that patients/visitors, staff,
- and the multi-disciplinary team, have access at all times.
- Manage and evaluate changes that lead to better practice and higher standards of
- care.
2. MANAGEMENT
- To be responsible for the management, recruitment, retention and development of the nursing team.
- Monitor performance indicators for the quality of patient care and report on monthly basis to HN/AM Nursing.
- Ensure effective and efficient use of all resources.
- Empower nurses to take on a wider range of clinical roles and responsibilities.
- Take responsibility for effective rostering (including the development of an electronic rostering system).
- Ensure that that a safe and appropriate skill mix is provided on a 24 hour basis.
- Design and develop clinical roles to meet increasingly complex patient needs.
- Monitor and manage staff sickness/absence within the Unit. Identify symptoms of stress and manage these appropriately.
- To develop and establish an appropriate system of work organisation in the clinical area within which authority and autonomy is devolved.
- Safeguard the health, safety and welfare of all patients, staff and visitors in the Unit.
- Promote and demonstrate effective communication within the clinical team and represent the nursing department at appropriate meetings.
- Create, develop and maintain professional, supportive relationships with all members of staff and with other departments and divisions.
Note: “Indus Hospital & Health Network is an employer that does not tolerate Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.”