Paediatric Nursing Unit Manager

Paediatric Nursing Unit Manager

Reports to: Nursing Director

Main Purpose of Appointment 

NURSING CARE  

  • Provides a clear focus for clinical leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of holistic, patient-centred care. 
  • Monitor patient outcomes and quality indicators to drive continuous improvement in care delivery. 
  • Directs the delivery of safe and appropriate patient care governed by evidence based clinical and management practice. 
  • Oversee the assessment, planning, and delivery of pediatric care, including the administration of medications and treatments. 
  • Coordinate patient care plans, ensuring continuity of care during hospitalization. 
  • Educate patients and families about pediatric health conditions, treatment options, and preventive measures. 
  • Ensures that all required nursing processes and standards are maintained by nursing staff. 
  • Practises clinically, leading, co-ordinating and supervising nursing practice.  
  • Ensures that all patients have their needs assessed, that programmes of care are developed to meet these needs and are delivered in accordance with agreed policies and procedures. 
  • Leads innovation and demonstrating clinical expertise acting as a resource and advisor in their area of expertise to colleagues in other units and departments throughout the hospital. 
  • Provides leadership in clinical situations, and act as an influential role model for best competent professional nursing practice.  
  • Lead and mentor a team of pediatric nurses, nurse practitioners, and support staff. 
  • Ensure the provision of safe, effective, and family-centered pediatric nursing care. 
  • Monitor and evaluate patient care to maintain high standards. 
  • Ensures that the health status of each patient and family is assessed as outlined in the standards of nursing practices by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana.  

WARD ROUNDS 

  • Schedule and coordinate regular ward rounds with the paediatric team, including paediatricians, surgeons, nurses, and other relevant healthcare professionals. 
  • Ensure that rounds are conducted at consistent intervals and follow a structured approach. 

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT  

  • Accomplishes the unit’s human resource objectives by recruiting, orientating, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; enforcing policies and procedures. 
  • Ensures meticulous attention to professional image (uniform code, hair and nails, name badges). 
  • Accountable to the Nursing Director for continuing nursing education of staff and education of trainees. 
  • Assesses knowledge, skills and attitudes of personnel and identifies learning needs for in-service education. 
  • Keeps records, monitors, and analyses all staff training, the results of nursing and quality audits conducted in the unit/department, as well as workshops, seminars and meetings attended by or organised for staff development. 
  • Creates a work environment of professional practice by encouraging innovation and collaboration; empathy and care; eliciting a commitment to excellence; demonstrating a respect for diversity; researching and developing nursing care practice trends.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 

  • Meets unit objectives by estimating requirements; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions. 
  • Develops and adheres to departmental staffing, revenue and/or expense budgets. 
  • Researches, evaluates, selects and implements systems which improve efficiency of work unit operations. 
  • Responds to changes in the business which may affect the ability to achieve the budget goals. 
  • Controls, monitors and analyzes pharmaceutical and surgical stock held in the units.
  • Inventory management: Places requests for items from Medical and Surgical Stores through Medinous 
  • Maintenance of items on Medinous: Liaises with Procurement and Billing Units to ensure that items on hand physically be identical to quantities on Medinous on a weekly basis. 
  • Ensures Transfers from one location to another are completed on Medinous as they occur.  
  • Ensure all Returns to Medical and Surgical Stores are captured on Medinous as they occur.  
  • Determines minimum and maximum quantities to avoid over or under stock of items. 
  • Actively participates in stock take at the end of each month and ensure variance reports are completed in a timely manner.  
  • Liaises with Procurement Unit to train nursing staff on stock management. 
  • Timely completion of all billing, ensuring all stock are accurately billed by nursing staff and reviewed in a timely manner. 
  • Liaises with the Billing team prior to patient discharge from units. 

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT – CLINICAL AND QUALITY 

Achieves operational objectives by.

  • Preparing and completing action plans.
  • Implementing productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
  • Identifying and resolving problems.
  • Supporting team leaders and team members.
  • Completing audits.
  • Determining system improvements.
  • Implementing change.
  • Ensuring that there is efficient and effective utilisation of all resources required to deliver optimum quality care to their patient/client group.   
  • Acts as a clinical resource and leads the unit’s nursing team in performing functions at an advanced level of competence and consistence.   
  • Keeps the Nursing Director informed at all times of any unresolved patient complaints, potential litigation cases or instances of nursing negligence in their departments. 
  • Ensure the availability and proper maintenance of pediatric care equipment and supplies. 
  • Manage inventory and oversee procurement of necessary medical supplies and medications. 
  • Improves quality results by developing plans and programs; introducing and evaluating new programs and technology; providing optimum learning environment for nursing students.  
  • Accomplishes nursing services and hospital goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. 
  • Develops, reviews and revises all unit specific nursing protocols, procedures, in-service education programs, patient care programs and nursing standards with approval of the Nursing Director. 
  • Keeps abreast of and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of medical/surgical/ supplies/equipment techniques.   
  • Attends and actively participate in nursing conferences and seminarsAttend in-service lectures.   

EXPERIENCE/ SKILLS/ EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION 

  • Bachelor of Science / master’s degree in nursing 
  • Post-graduate Diploma in Nursing Management and/or Nursing Education an advantage. 
  • Current registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana. 
  • Minimum 5 years proven leadership and management experience in the relevant environment preferably in private healthcare.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Understanding of legislation and regulations relating to healthcare and the nursing profession.
  • Understanding of legal requirements as it relates to private hospitals and nursing.
  • Understanding of resourcing models within broader healthcare industry.
  • Ability to influence, motivate, develop and lead a team to ensure quality and productive clinical and professional nursing care.

WORK PROFILE

The Bank Hospital

Location: Block F6 Shippi Road Cantonment, Accra

P.O. Box CT 1224, Cantonments, Accra | Tel +233 302 739373 | Reg Number CS156732016

Date Posted: August 02, 2024

Closing Date for Applications: August 12, 2024

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Ghana
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