Job description

Job Summary

Leads and demonstrates the provision of safe patient and family focused quality care. Responsible for twenty-four (24) hour management of assigned nursing unit. Assesses, plans, directs, implements, and evaluates patient care to comply with established standards in accordance with Elegancia Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice and Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA).

• Strives for excellence on unit and promotes team working and interdisciplinary relationships.
• Ensures that nursing and support teams work flexibly and supportively together and that the objectives for the OR are delivered.
• Evaluates patient acuity, develops, and reviews criteria for work assignment and delivery care model.
• Ensures that there is planned and effective day-to-day skill mix and staff management. Determines and reviews staffing plans and develops a scheduling system for unit and reviews regularly as staffing, skills mix, and acuity change.
• Act as an expert resource for others requiring knowledge, experience, advice, and support within the multi-professional team
• Performs or monitors personnel management functions, which includes interviewing and selecting candidates, directing the performance management program, and managing corrective action issues.
• Demonstrates growth and development in clinical and management skills through an ongoing process of education consultation and pertinent literature.

• Ensure policy, procedure and practice are in place and consistent with hospital strategic direction/goals, medical practice, service delivery and regulatory standards.
• Demonstrate research-based nursing practice in caring for patients in related specialties.
• Provide holistic nursing care to patients and their families.
• Ensure effective channels of communication exist between the staff, the patients, and their relatives (and/or significant others) in order that they are fully always informed.
• Act as a change agent, supporting staff in the implementation of new practice.
• Supports risk management activities.
• Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet departmental requirements, policies and standards.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices to increase productivity and operational efficiency and adhere to all relevant department’s policies, processes, procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

• Previous Commissioning of an OR Department highly desirable

• Previous Licencing experience of OR the GCC desirable

• Comprehensive knowledge of Accreditation Process in an acute Healthcare Facility with particular emphasis on JCI

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of all medical, financial, and legal information

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing

• Ability to handle difficult situations involving patients, physicians, or others in a professional manne

• ERP knowledge preferably SAP functional skills are a requirement to be successful in this role.

Minimum 8 years of experience in Nursing(required)

4 Years Managerial Experience on Nursing Operating Room

Minimum 2 years in GCC (preferred)