Assistant Head Nurse

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Education: BScN/Post RN. Experience: BScN/Post RN with minimum 06 years experience. Provide 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. 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.”