Charge Nurse

Job description / Role

Responsibilities:
• Managing a patient care unit for administrative and clinical aspects to include organizing, developing, directing and assuring the delivery of cost-effective quality patient care.
• Ensure that patient care is delivered in accordance with established hospital wide policies and procedures and nursing standards.
• Delegate responsibilities appropriate to the scope of practice, qualification and training of the staff.
• Provides education to staff based on theoretical and clinical experience.
• Evaluate nursing personnel performance based on organization’s objectives, professional practice, standards, relevant statistics and regulation criteria.
• Ensure clinical resources and continuity of patient care.
• Supports the development of clinical pathways and clinical practice guidelines through utilization data and analysis within the clinical unit.
• Organizes and ensures implementation of the department’s policies and procedures.
• Regularly reports, as required, on the KPIs that are to be reported upon regarding the activities in the Department.
• Establishes and maintains an effective working relationship and ongoing communications with medical staff and other department heads.
• Ensures the Department / Clinical Unit Manager is informed of and aware of significant events and activities in the area(s) of responsibility.
• Ensures ICML is is informed of and aware of significant events and activities in the area(s) of responsibility and ensure collection and compilation of all documentations, IP and other relevant information about ICML activities within the Department as may be required by ICML.
• Provides input to the monthly reports to be produced by the Clinical Director to the ICML Project Manager and to ICML on the activities of the Department with particular emphasis on the activities of the ICML Staff at the Department for the preceding month highlighting areas of success, areas of deficiency and forecasting possible future encumbrances including laying out the steps for overcoming the same with the aim of providing safe and efficient healthcare services;
• Generally, has a duty of care to ICML and works with and works with and cooperates fully with ICML and the ICML Project Manager in the implementation of all aspects of the Agreement between ICML’s Client and ICML;
• Performs other professional duties as may be assigned within his/her scope and ability.
• Responsible for making resourcing, staffing, bed management decisions.
• Oversight for patient care and 1st level staffing decisions by those directly in charge of a shift.
• Responsible for the efficient use of equipment and supplies for the unit. Responsible for working collaboratively with others to solve problems, provide care and improve the provision of patient care. Responsible for collection, collation and improvements of key performance indicators for the unit.

Salary:
AED 10,000 to 15,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.
Additional benefits: company accommodation and transportation

Requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good oral, written and presentation skills. Ability to make presentations to groups
• Proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with others both within and outside of the organization
• Fosters a participatory leadership style and able to bring about change
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability in related clinical health care practice, education and program planning, development, implementation and evaluation
• Ability to plan, prioritize and carry out projects
• Demonstrated ability to provide progressive and innovative approaches to service delivery and program issues
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively in a dynamic and high stress
• environment and with changing priorities and deadlines;
• Demonstrated ability to lead, plan, direct, manage and implement
• Demonstrated ability to be effective in an environment subject to continuous change
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple disciplines and systems in a complex environment
• Demonstrated effective cost containment initiatives, with demonstrated positive results
• Demonstrated ability to provide progressive and innovative approaches to service delivery and program issues
• Excellent investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Health Information Systems applications, tools and concepts.
• Excellent customer service approach
• Exposure to quality projects desirable
• Demonstrated knowledge of research methodology, practices and techniques. Research participation desirable
• Knowledge of methods of developing clinical quality assurance and evidence based clinical practice
• Experience of needs assessment
• Understanding and practical experience of service evaluation
• Good knowledge of MS Office applications including Word. Excel, PowerPoint and presentation media

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