Clinical Nurse Manager

Background

The NTPF is a corporate body with functions and responsibilities as set out under Statutory Instrument 179 - National Treatment Purchase Fund (Establishment) Order, 2004 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act (2009).

Its key functions are:

• Arranging for the provision of hospital treatment to classes of persons determined by the Minister.
• Collecting, collating and validating information on persons waiting for public hospital treatment.
• Agreeing pricing arrangements with private & voluntary nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme.
• Furnishing advice to the Minister for Health on related issues.
• Performing any other function assigned by the Minister for Health, since July 2012 this includes responsibility for the publication of outpatient waiting lists.

In carrying out its functions, the NTPF works closely with the Department of Health, the HSE, acute public hospitals and private nursing homes across the health system.

The Department

The Commissioning Department arranges hospital treatment for patients on public hospital waiting lists. We do this by sourcing capacity in the private health care system and funding additional activity within the public health care system.

The role and key responsibilities are as follows:

The role of the Clinical Nurse Manager is to provide clinical decision support around the transfer of patient care between hospitals in order to facilitate treating patients faster.

The current priorities are as follows:

• Establishing clinical pathways between public and private hospitals.
• Liaising with senior hospital staff to arrange treatment.
• Managing and maintaining relationships between all stakeholders.
• Understanding of patient waiting list management.
• Understanding of medical procedures across a range of specialties.
• Tracking patient treatment to ensure patients are treated in a timely manner.
• Managing clinical outliers, adverse clinical incidents, patient experience surveys and complaints.
• Using clinical knowledge to carry out a clinical audit.
• Understanding regulatory requirements and standard-setting processes.
• Providing hospital user training regarding the appropriate and timely management of clinical outliers.
• Communicate and cooperate with the Clinical Risk Assurance Manager, in developing, managing and enhancing the quality of the department.

Note: The functions and responsibilities assigned to this position are based on the current requirements of the NTPF. These requirements may change in line with changes in the roles, objectives or business requirements of the organisation up to and including transfer to other business units.