Nursing Site Manager (Part-time)

Location: On site / Lucan, Co. Dublin, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Part-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare Nursing & Midwifery
Salary: Negotiable salary

Job Title: Nursing Site Manager

Department: Nursing

Job Type: Part Time - Permanent

Hours: 18.75

Blackrock Health Hermitage Clinic is a private hospital providing a full range of medical and surgical care across a broad spectrum of specialities. Each Ward provides a range of services and this role is important in making a significant contribution, developing and maintaining best practice in nursing services at clinical areas.

The Hermitage Clinic is now part of Blackrock Health private hospital group along with the Blackrock Clinic, Galway Clinic, and Limerick Clinic, some of the most advanced hospitals in Irish private healthcare. As a JCI accredited hospital, The Hermitage Clinic is a progressive and pioneering hospital in which care for the patient is central to everything we do.

Role Purpose The role is responsible for the provision of quality service in line with standards of nursing practice. As a key member of the senior nursing team, the Nursing Site Manager (NSM) will demonstrate managerial and leadership skills, working collaboratively with the Director of Nursing & Transformation, Senior Management Colleagues, Heads of Departments, Clinical Nurse Managers and Allied Health Professionals. This role also involves communication and collaboration with the Consultants, ensuring efficient and effective care of their patients, as well as being responsible for coordinating patient movement across departments to optimise bed capacity, reduce delays, and ensure efficient patient flow within the hospital. This role will oversee the management of resources including staffing and staff development. The position requires a strategic approach to the development of services and structures, bracing continuous quality improvement and the management of changes necessary to achieve organisational objectives. The role will require some flexibility and will consist of a combination of day and night shifts to ensure continuity of care on a 24hour basis.

Qualifications / Experience

• Be registered in the general division of the Register of Nurses maintained by NMBI
• 5 years' experience in an acute hospital setting
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the development and delivery of a comprehensive service, meeting a full range of key targets and making significant improvements
• Worked with a diverse range of stakeholders internal and external to achieve successful outcomes
• A proactive hands on 'can do' attitude
• Demonstrated capability in change management
• Hold an up to date ACLS course or a willingness to undertake same.
• A health care management qualification is desirable at third level/ or level 9 on the National Qualification Authority of Ireland (NQAI.)
• Previous Management Experience
• Technical & Professional Expertise
• Commitment to Quality
• Resource Management
• Building and Maintaining Relationships
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Problem Solving & Decision Making

Key Responsibilities Operations

• Be responsible for the safe and effective operations of Nursing services towards ensuring patients have safe and timely access to services, expertise and support on a 24-hour basis.
• Provide clinical leadership, support, expertise and managerial advice to all staff in the clinical area
• Ensure that the day-to-day activities and resources of the hospital are managed and co-ordinated throughout, so that a first-class patient focused service is delivered.
• Coordinates patient admissions, transfers, and discharges to ensure smooth and efficient patient flow throughout the hospital.
• Be aware of all policies in relation to fire prevention, moving and handling, major emergency, waste management and risk management and implement these.
• Promote and maintain a high standard of nursing care, to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all patients and staff and maintain an excellent hospital image at all times. Support service areas in day to day operational delivery of services and manage any professional or operation issues that required action and escalation.
• Provide leadership and support to the nurse managers to enable and empower them to deliver high quality safe patient care and ensure agreed objectives and policies set are achieved.
• Provide continuous improvement recommendations to the Director of Nursing & Transformation and wider executive team where necessary.
• Develop effective workforce planning in conjunction with CNM's. Be able to forecast trends regarding skill/case mix to ensure effective short and long term workforce planning.
• Ensure that all nursing and support services are managed to optimise effectiveness, quality, safety and efficiency.
• Ensure co-ordination of staff deployment across service units/wards to meet fluctuations in demand.
• Evaluate the systems of nursing care delivery and recommend changes in nursing procedures, practices and policies in order to reflect an evidence-based practice approach to service delivery working closely with Nursing practice development department in the hospital.
• Participate in inter-disciplinary and inter-service policy planning groups in order to effect optimal clinical and non-clinical service delivery to service units/wards.
• Provide reports on matters affecting the implementation and monitoring of the service plans against the targets set.
• Manage and control agency and bank utilisation across the hospital.
• Be responsible for effective Bed utilisation in collaboration with CNM's by reviewing booking forms and highlighting opportunities for maximising utilisation through cost effective patient management and facilitating out of hours and emergency bookings in conjunction with discharge planning.
• Maintain an accurate and timely knowledge of bed availability using the "Hospital Status at a Glance" lean methodology. To ensure real-time patient discharge and admissions is recorded and beds assigned for patient care in accordance with hospital policies.
• To manage the split of urgent/emergency and scheduled/ elective care to effect the daily placement of unscheduled and scheduled admissions efficiently.
• To collaborate with information systems in collating data on the frequency of peaks and troughs of bed usage etc. in order that the hospital management can be better informed and work towards more effective bed utilisation and occupancy
• Participate in internal performance meetings and have a full working knowledge of patient's access in line with service areas.
• Assist with corporate initiatives aimed at cost effectiveness and improving patient flow.
• Support CNM's and Patient Flow Manager in actively managing complex discharge planning situations
• Proactively manage patients lengths of stay
• Support and manage all staff including medical staff, ensuring good systems are in place for annual leave, sick leave and appropriate plans in place for replacing staff including short notice absence.
• Liaise with household services and Infection Control Department to ensure cleaning services are of highest standards and auditing compliance with relevant standards.
• Conduct audits of charts, daily entries and communication boards.
• Working with the nurse managers to ensure the effective implementation of key projects to agreed timelines and budgets and ensure targets are met.
• Develop a process of effective team work through the nursing function and with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensure that an effective working relationship is maintained between nursing departments and support functions.
• Establish collaborative relationships with external stakeholders in the public and private sectors.
• Contribute to relevant committees and working groups as requested by Director of Nursing and Quality.
• Act as an agent of change throughout the organisation to enable the organisation to grow and develop its services.
• Monitor and regularly review the patient journey and staffing requirements to improve productivity. Organise and manage available nursing resources within approved budgetary allocations. Identify potential savings.
• Contribute to investigation of adverse occurrences, medication incidents and patient complaints with accountability for drafting responses and implementing corrective action and preventative actions.
• Attend and report to professional nursing accountability and review/network meetings as directed by the Director of Nursing & Transformation.
• Ensure robust clinical governance and risk management systems are in place and adhered to within the service areas and manage any area of noncompliance regarding governance arrangements and patient safety.
• Participate, lead and assist with the delivery of Quality improvement and cost reduction and transforming nursing care in line with best practice.
• Ensure the clinical areas are provided with advice and information required to formulate policies, decide priorities, set and achieve objectives and monitor progress in collaboration with the Clinical Nurse Managers, Assistant Directors of Nursing and Director of Nursing & Transformation.
• Ensure effective use of equipment, resources and facilities within the division to maximise patient care and services.
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