Clinical Nurse Manager - Operating Rooms

Job description / Role

Job summary:
Reporting to the Director of Perioperative Services the Clinical Nurse Manager Operating Roomswill be tasked withsetting up and opening a new department 18 Operating Rooms including C-section and IMRI suites. Theywill be responsible for the management of perioperative standards, a full service operating room, level 1 Trauma, with multiple services and patient flow optimizing operating room schedules.

The Clinical Nurse Manager is responsible for leading and demonstrating the provision of safe, patient and family focused quality care on his/her unit/clinic, 24-hours a day. The Clinical Nurse Manager is a key member of the inter-professional team and ensures that standards for nursing care are adhered to at the unit/clinic level. The Clinical Nurse Manager in collaboration with team members is accountable for ensuring that commissioning, recruitment, on boarding, orientation and service activation responsibilities are carried out in accordance with Sidra's plans, policies, and timelines. The Clinical Nurse Manager is responsible for identifying risks in these processes, informing leadership and actively participating in managing timely solutions.

Key Role Accountabilities:
* Serves as a professional and role model for staff and is an advocate for patients and their families demonstrating behaviors consistent with the organizational/education competency framework, Sidra values, policies, procedures and guidelines.
* Provides supervision and guidance to staff ensuring that all care is provided in accordance with Divisional Core Standards of Nursing Care and established policies and procedures.
* Evaluates and ensures that individualized discharge planning needs are assessed on admission.
* Ensures an inter-professional approach to facilitate a timely discharge or transfer to the next level of care or home.
* Ensures safe patient care by making patient assignments based on patient acuity and skill mix.
* Evaluates and ensures that clinical documentation, nursing diagnoses and plans of care are integrated and effective in delivering an individual plan of care.
* Promotes a safe environment and safe patient care by embracing a safety culture and identifying areas of risk.
* Demonstrates an understanding of evidence-based healthcare methodology and its' ability to positively impact patient outcomes.
* Participates in the integration and evaluation of research into practice.
* Utilizes outcome measures to evaluate effectiveness of care through the review of data and the questioning of inconsistencies.
* Works towards the achievement of agreed key performance indicators for self and unit.
* Identifies patient care issues and/or strategies to improve and positively impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes.
* Collaborates with the Clinical Nurse Manager and Clinical Educators in planning, implementation and nts evaluation of patient/family and staff education.
* Applies problem solving techniques and evidence based solutions to unit/clinic related issues. Evaluates and ensures appropriate escalation of issues to meet patient/family/staff needs and resolve conflicts.
* Communicates effectively and efficiently with patients, families and colleagues, addresses patient/family complaints immediately and assists in the investigation of written complaints.
* Ensures the effective orientation, precepting and support of new staff and students.
* Provides a welcoming work environment and monitors and tracks individuals' progress.
* Contributes to the employee performance appraisal cycle objectively and assists with action plans arising from appraisals as necessary.
* Counsels and/or disciplines staff when appropriate.
* Supports the retention of all staff by creating a healthy work environment that facilitates teamwork, and treats colleagues, patients/families and visitors with dignity and respect at all times.
* Ensures relevant information is communicated to all staff effectively and efficiently.
* Maintains effective administrative processes in the unit/clinic and reviews and revises unit/clinic policies and procedures as required.
* Contributes to the achievement of cost efficiency savings in the unit/clinic and maintains an awareness of resource utilization, exercising care in the ordering and use of equipment and materials.
* Reports equipment failures, safety and security issues, and/or reduction of supply inventory.
* Supports the achievement of successfully implementing clinical information systems at unit level.
* Leads Performance Improvement activities and committees on the unit/clinic as assigned.
* Develops and sustains own knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness and maintains a professional profile.
* Provides documented evidence of own performance and maintenance of skills consistent with position.
* Deputizes for the Clinical Nurse Manager as required.
* Follows all organizational policies and procedures.
* Adheres to Sidra's standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.

Requirements

* Masters Degree in Nursing or health related field, or Masters in Business Administration from an accredited Western University.
* Registered Nurse (3 year program)
* Seven+ years of progressive management experience in specialty area in an acute hospital setting in a North American Academic Institution.
* Current Nursing Licence from country of origin
* Demonstrated managerial experience in specialty area
* Demonstrated experience with interviewing, hiring, mentoring and performance evaluation
* Demonstrated experience with clinical Information systems, including staffing and scheduling systems, and time and attendance systems
* Demonstrated knowledge and application of specialty Standards of Care
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
* Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred:
* Post graduate specialty qualification/certification
* Post graduate specialty certification
* CNOR certified.

We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate the following:
* Ability to operate effectively within a high pressure environment.
* A lateral thinker with the ability to think on their feet
* Adept at resolving conflict and solving problems.
* Extensive operating room, process improvement and pediatric experience, strong clinical and collaborative skills and the ability to demonstrate a positive commitment to excellence.

About the Company

Sidra Medical and Research Center will be an ultramodern, all-digital academic medical center which will set new standards in patient care for women and children in Qatar, the Gulf region and internationally.

It will encompass three essential missions:

World-Class Patient Care Medical Education Biomedical Research

Sidra will work closely with its academic partner Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and Hamad Medical Corporation in regard to all three missions, raising the standard of health care throughout the country and providing valuable opportunities for research and learning. Sidra is part of a dynamic research and education environment in Qatar that includes leading international institutions, such as Georgetown University, as well as other newly established national research centers.