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Management and Leadership

The Assistant Director of Nursing will:

• Provide strategic, operational and clinical leadership for nursing and related services within the directorate, resulting in the delivery of effective, efficient, quality assured and patient centred care.

• Actively engage as a member of the Clinical Directorate Team.

• Take responsibility for the management of all nursing & healthcare assistant services for the directorate and ensure that systems are in place to support this responsibility.

• Contribute to the development, implementation and audit of strategic and operational plans for the delivery of safe quality care within the directorate.

• Work with the directorate team to ensure the implementation of the National Clinical Programmes and the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare.

• Work closely with patient services to ensure patient focused services and activities are nurtured and developed to maintain the values expressed in the Mission Statement of UHW.

• Develop a shared sense of commitment and participation amongst staff in the management of change, the development of the nursing and healthcare assistant services and in responding to the changing health needs of patients.

• Develop a culture of continuous quality improvement within the directorate to ensure each patient is treated as an individual and provided with quality service in terms of courtesy, kindness and efficiency.

• Participate in the development of the overall service plan and in the monitoring and review of activity against the plans

• Participate in the overall financial planning of the service including the assessment of priorities in pay and non-pay expenditure

• Provide innovative and effective leadership, support and advice to nursing and allied staff at all levels

• 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

• 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 or other designated officer

Participate and engage in projects and service developments by representing senior nursing on committees and groups

Professional /Clinical Responsibilities

The Assistant Director of Nursing will:

• Provide a high level of professional and clinical leadership

• Ensure that safe, comprehensive nursing care is delivered to service users within the guidelines laid out by The Nursing and Midwifery Board Ireland.

• Practice nursing according to Professional Clinical Guidelines, National and Health Service Executive guidelines, local policies, protocols and guidelines and current legislation

• Manage, monitor and evaluate professional and clinical standards ensuring an evidence based care planning approach

• Participate in Directorate teams as appropriate, communicating and working in co-operation with the other team members and the wider multi disciplinary teams

• Facilitate co-ordination, cooperation and liaison across health care teams and programmes

• Formulate, manage and implement best practice policies and procedures

• Ensure that service users and others are treated with dignity and respect

• 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 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.

• Develop a workforce plan for Nursing and support services in the Directorate.

Education and Training

The Assistant Director of Nursing will:

• Contribute to 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 Assistant Director of Nursing will:

• 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.