Job Ref Number: BM/CS/200110/02
Position: Assistant Director of Nursing
Location: Dublin
Te
mporary/Contract/Permanent: Permanent
Salary: €55,000 - €70,000
Co
mpany Info: A nurse with strong organisational skills and a background in staff supervision is sought to run a variety of hospital units on a day-to-day basis. The successful candidate will manage resources, assign work, monitor staff performance and develop organisation policies and guidelines. The ideal candidate for this post will have a number of years experience working with care of the elderly and have had psychiatric experience.
Responsibilities:
· Manage professional and clinical standards using an evidence based, care planning approach.
· Provide supportive supervision and professional development of staff.
· Manage multi-disciplinary staff and service development through appropriate continuous education.
· Manage resources efficiently and effectively to ensure the continuous quality improvement in service.
· Facilitate team building and motivation.
· Manage defined devolved personnel functions, with particular emphasis on maximizing recruitment and retention of nursing and nursing support staff.
· Formulate, manage and implement best practice hospital policies and procedures.
· Manage and promote community and inter/intra-hospital service liaison.
· Contribute to the strategic management and planning process.
· Assist in the co-ordination of patient activities between clinical areas.
· Ensure the effective and efficient use of nursing resources, advising on skill mix and staff allocation according to patients needs across the hospitals.
· Actively strive to develop multi-disciplinary communication, collaboration and teamwork.
· Assist in monitoring the implementation of service plans.
· Apply the principle of delegation in all instances to the maximum level compatible with safety.
· Ensure audit systems are in place to facilitate the constant evaluation of service and client care.
· Monitor and investigate all complaints, clinical incidents or near misses and report findings to the Director of Nursing.
· Provide relief cover for the Director of Nursing or the Clinical Nurse Managers when required.
· Encourage and facilitate staff innovation in nursing practice.
· Ensure that policies, procedures and standards are developed and revised.
· Assist in the development and evaluation of quality initiatives and clinical audits to ensure that the best quality of services and practices are provided within available resources.
· Co-operate with the Human Resources Dept., in the recruitment and retention of staff.
· Assist in forecasting trends regarding skill mix and turnover rate.
· Assist in implementing annual staff development and performance review.
· Manage staff sickness and absenteeism in accordance with guidelines.
· Promote good inter-professional team work.
· Ensure that staff receive induction/orientation and are provided with the opportunities to attend in-service training and other appropriate educational programmes and seminars.
· Facilitate learning from nursing practice through reflection and critical incident analysis.
· Participate in hospital staff in-service training programmes.
· Be cognisant of the latest developments in health care and nursing practice.
· Attend and participate in conferences, seminars and other research/educational activities regionally.
Requirements:
· Must be registered on the General and/or Psychiatric Division of An Bord Altranais or be eligible to register.
· Ideally have a minimum of 5 years post registration experience, 3 of which should have been as a senior staff nurse or in a supervisory position.
· Management course or other relevant post registration course.
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