UHWN Assistant Director Of Nursing

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The Assistant Director of Nursing – Patient Flow will:

• Will have line management responsibility for the staff under her remit.
• Work collaboratively with the ADON responsible for operational management of other clinical areas.
• Participate in the appropriate management and co-ordination of effective and efficient patient flow to improve patient flow.
• Take remedial action where necessary to improve patient flow and the patient experience.
• The ADON has responsibility for developing and enhancing relationships creating collaborative fora across the Primary and Community Care structures in order to reduce unnecessary attendances and support early discharge to the most appropriate setting.
• Participate in the overall financial planning of the service including the assessment of priorities in pay and non-pay expenditure.
• Identify opportunities to develop IT practices to enhance patient care and flow, and to increase efficiency while decreasing workload e.g. the development of systems to facilitate rapid ordering, tracing, and review of diagnostic testing, electronic bed mapping and navigational hub. The ADON will ensure that relevant timely data is available to support decision making and to assess quality improvement deliverables.
• Ensure that critical human and material resources are allocated in an effective way, monitoring activity levels and intervening to align resources and maximize efficiencies.
• Collaborate and liaise with key stakeholders’ national and local e.g. relevant clinical programmes, patient flow project, SDU, Quality Improvement projects, NMPD project leads.
• Assist with the direction and supervision of the nursing service to provide a high level of patient care and clinical/functional area/sector management.
• Provide innovative and effective leadership, support and advice to nursing and allied staff at all levels.
• Provide guidance to nursing and other staff in the implementation of nursing guidelines and policies.
• Maintain good employee relations and promote good communication with all relevant staff.
• Give support and counsel to nursing and allied staff as necessary and take action in accordance with agreed service policy, if necessary.
• Plan and guide activities to provide optimum patient care in accordance with service policies and procedure and undertake audits as required.
• Ensure adherence to all standards and guidelines relating to professional nursing practice and behaviour.
• Undertake other relevant duties as may be determined from time to time by the Director of Nursing.

Professional / Clinical Responsibilities

The Assistant Director of Nursing - Patient Flow will:

• Provide a high level of professional and clinical leadership to maintain efficient patient flow.
• Provide safe, comprehensive nursing care to service users within the guidelines laid out by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).
• Practice nursing according to Professional Clinical Guidelines, National and Area Health Service Executive guidelines, local policies, protocols and current legislation.
• Place the values of kindness, care compassion, trust and learning at the core of daily work.
• Manage, monitor and evaluate professional and clinical standards ensuring an evidence based care planning approach in conjunction with operational ADON.
• Manage own work load in accordance with the needs of the post.
• Participate in teams as appropriate, communicating and working in co-operation with the other team members, the wider multi-disciplinary teams and integrated care teams.
• Facilitate co-ordination, cooperation and liaison across health care teams’ programmes and services.
• Formulate, manage and implement best practice policies and procedures.
• Ensure, as part of the team approach to patient care uphold the HSE’s policy that service users and others are treated with dignity and respect and develop opportunities for service users to contribute to service improvements.
• Adhere and contribute to the development and maintenance of nursing standards, protocols and guidelines consistent with the highest standards of patient care.
• Maintain professional standards in relation to confidentiality, ethics and legislation.
• Assist in the development of divisional service policies and procedures and the implementation of same and to update them as required.
• Participate in development of quality initiatives including clinical audit, standard setting, investigation of complaints and untoward incidents, use of quality improvement methodologies.

Education and Training

The Assistant Director of Nursing - Patient Flow) will:

• Contribute to service development through appropriate continuous education, research initiatives, keeping up to date with nursing and relevant literature, recent nursing and relevant research and new developments in nursing management patient flow management, education and practice and attend staff study days as considered appropriate.
• Provide support/advice to those engaging in continuous professional development in his/her area of responsibility.
• Participate in the identification, development and delivery of induction, education, training and development programmes for nursing and non-nursing staff in conjunction of operational ADON.
• In respect of Patient flow, participate in in-service training, orientation programmes all nursing staff.
• Provide support supervision and professional development of appropriate staff in respect of patient flow.
• Engage in performance review processes including personal development planning by setting own objectives and providing and receiving feedback.

Health & Safety/ Risk Management

The Assistant Director of Nursing – Patient Flow will

• In addition, the post-holder will introduce appropriate risk elimination measures, or where this is not possible will introduce risk mitigation management measures. The process of monitoring and responding to Health and Safety (H&S) concerns will be ongoing.
• Ensure that effective safety procedures are developed and managed to comply with statutory obligations.
• Be aware of risk management issues, identify risks and take appropriate action.
• Comply with the policies, procedures and safe professional practice of the Irish Healthcare System by adhering to relevant legislation, regulations and standards.
• Assist in the development, implementation and review of Health and Safety statements, as appropriate.
• Document appropriately and report any near misses, hazards and accidents and bring them to the attention of the relevant person(s).
• Maintain a feedback mechanism and report to senior management where appropriate.
• Work in a safe manner with due care and attention to the safety of self and others.
• Ensure adherence to policies in relation to the care and safety of any equipment supplied for the fulfilment of duty. Ensure advice of relevant stakeholders is sought prior to procurement.
• The post holder has a duty to familiarise themselves with the relevant:

o Organisational Policies

o Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives

o Document Control Information Management Systems

o Risk Management Strategy and Policies

o Hygiene Related Policies, Procedures and Standards

o Decontamination Code of Practise

o Infection Control Policies

o Safety Statement, Health & Safety Policies/Fire Procedure

o Data Protection and Confidentiality Policies

o Strategy for People Management

o Trust in Care

• Have a working knowledge of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Standards as they apply to the role for example, Standards for Healthcare, National Standards for the Prevention and Control of Healthcare Associated Infections, Hygiene Standards etcand comply with associated HSE protocols for implementing and maintaining these standards.
• Support, promote and actively participate in sustainable energy, water and waste initiatives to create a more sustainable, low carbon and efficient health service.