UHWN Temporary Deputy Director Of Nursing

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Management and Leadership

The DDON will:

• To assist the DON in ensuring a Nursing service that is meeting the needs of the organisation, patients, carers and other stakeholders including regulatory and professional bodies.
• To assist the DON managing operational and out of hours nursing services and the overall nursing administration function.
• To promote the development and maintenance of high standards of care in order that the care offered is family centred, sensitive and responsive to service users, ensuring it adheres to best practice and quality standards.
• To assist the DON to monitor nursing performance against nationally agreed operational and nursing performance indicators
• To assist the DON with developing, overseeing and assessing performance against the nursing strategic plan
• To utilise a programme management structure to communicate the nursing service plan and ensure control and timely oversight of key deliverables against the strategic plan
• To take a lead role with ADON’s in developing the leadership capacity and capability of all clinical nurse managers across the campus ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
• To ensure nursing care delivery is in line or develops development plans with national clinical strategies where appropriate and national clinical effectiveness guidelines.
• To support ADON’s in establishing systems for measuring and monitoring the deliverables and patient outcomes of new service developments or advanced practice initiatives
• To partake in serious untoward incident reviews, disciplinary, grievances, and other complaint investigations as necessary.
• To assist the DON in managing the overall nursing budget for directly managed functions.
• To monitor and evaluate the effective use of nursing resources, alerting the DON of trends and performances against agreed targets and ensuring adherence to the hospital financial controls and procedures.
• Participate and engage in projects and service developments by representing senior nursing on committees and groups

Professional /Clinical Responsibilities

The DDON will:

• Provide professional and clinical leadership / direction to nursing and clinical support staff within the Hospital that supports models of care delivery required for delivering the outputs identified within the HSE national service plan, SSWHG service plan and the, and ensures full compliance with statutory bodies – eg Nursing and Midwifery Board Ireland.
• Ensure any new professional guidelines and regulations from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland are implemented appropriately and in a timely manner and makes appropriate amendments to governance arrangements should same be required.
• To assist the DON with the development of a nursing workforce strategy, planning and implementing workforce changes that will ensure the effective deployment of professional and support staff and align to international models of care.
• In conjunction with the DON lead the ongoing implementation of the national framework for safe staffing and skill mix and ensure the ongoing monitoring of all clinical areas against the framework using the designated software system to measure acuity, demand and occupancy
• Ensure appropriate systems are in place to ensure reliability and validity of taskforce data on the designated software system to allow for periodic review of overall staffing budgeted compliments and resource deployment in each clinical area with ADON’s.
• In conjunction with the DON provide strategic direction to the centre for nurse education and research to ensure that practice development priorities and education programmes are strategically aligned both to nursing and corporate strategic plans
• To promote and maintain a culture of evidence based practice for nursing, ensuring the creation of effective local networks to share good practice and dissemination.
• With the DON develop and promote corporate nursing practice and integrated patient care policies, including the development of specialist or advanced nursing for interdisciplinary team

Education and Training

The DDON will:

• Assist the DON with service development through appropriate continuous education, research initiatives, keeping up to date with nursing literature, recent nursing research and new developments in nursing 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
• Participate in in-service training, orientation programmes and appraisals of all nursing staff. Also, participate in nurse training programmes and any other programmes pertaining to future development in the hospital
• Provide support supervision and professional development of appropriate staff
• Engage in performance review processes including personal development planning e.g., by setting own and staff objectives and providing and receiving feedback
• Develop and implement a training needs analysis for the Nursing and support staff in the directorate.

Clinical Governance, Quality Assurance, Risk, Health & Safety

The DDON will:

• With the DON & ADON’s ensure compliance with all relevant quality and safety standards as set out by agencies such as NMBI, HSE and HIQA.
• Encourage a culture of continuous quality improvement and mutual co-operation in the achievement of the highest possible standards of clinical care and maximum efficiency.
• Take a lead role in developing quality improvement capacity within the department of nursing for the purpose of ensuring wide scale patient care/process improvement for designated areas of care / practice.
• To be responsible for ensuring that adverse incidents involving nursing care within the hospital are investigated promptly, taking preventative/safeguarding action where necessary to ensure that patient safety is prioritised and all relevant procedures are adhered to and fully implemented.
• Act as the nursing lead for establishing and monitoring governance structures for nursing metrics and appropriate clinical audit and ensuring a mechanism is in place for feedback and action across the department to support appropriate reporting at corporate clinical governance meetings
• To assist the DON with development, monthly review and evaluation of the risk register
• Ensure that effective safety procedures are developed and managed to comply with statutory obligations
• Lead on Nursing risk management issues by identifying risks and taking 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, risk registers as appropriate.
• Document appropriately and report any near misses, hazards and accidents and bring them to the attention of the relevant person(s) using the HSE Incident reporting structure.
• 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.
• 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 etc.
• To support, promote and actively participate in sustainable energy, water and waste initiatives to create a more sustainable, low carbon and efficient health service.

The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.