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 seminars. Attend 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