Unit Manager - Medical Ward 3

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• The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.
• The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

• CONSISTENCY OF CARE
• Financial Management
• •Manage acuities and skill mix in such a way as to ensure cost effective quality care.
• •Manage all costs emanating from the department
• •Ensure correct billing, stock management and purchasing
• •Facilitate timeous and accurate compilation of files
• Governance and quality management
• •Identify quality improvement opportunities and ensure appropriate strategy and Quality Improvement initiatives are developed and measured
• Risk management
• •Investigate all negative incidents and ensure appropriate capturing on IMS
• •Monitor safety standards in accordance with the Machine and Occupational Safety Act (Act 6 of 1983). Report all accidents and incidents to Line Manager / Safety Representatives
• •Ensure compliance with protocols, policies and Acts
• •Ensure that all equipment is in working order and properly maintained
• •Control of asset register
• Patient care
• •Ensure the unit is providing safe, cost-effective quality patient care in line with the Clinical Governance strategy and evidence based practice
• •Evaluate the patient’s journey through patient experience and stakeholder input
• •Evaluate nursing quality indicators and clinical outcomes
• •Communicate effectively with patients regarding their care
• •Promote health and wellbeing of patients and staff
• •Ensure the principles of infection prevention and all standard precautions are adhered to
• •Implementing group quality initiatives
• TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SOCIETY
• Transformation targets
• •Ensure achievement of transformation goals as set out by the Transformation Committee
• Teamwork
• •Actively participate as a member of a team to achieve goals
• Personal and professional development
• •Active involvement in own professional development to maintain a satisfactory level of skill and knowledge.
• •Keep up to date with Netcare’s evolving policies and procedures
• •Keep abreast of current research in the applicable discipline
• People management
• •Create an environment where staff are aware of the role they play in the provision of quality nursing care and their value to the organization
• •Assign decision making, authority, tasks and responsibility to appropriate persons in order to maximize organisation and employee effectiveness.
• •Develop a talented nursing workforce.
• •Co-operate with Netcare Education Division to ensure appropriate nursing training for the delivery of quality care
• •Facilitate a culture that is supportive of talent management and the initiation of required implementations to hone nursing talent
• •Monitor staff attendance and/or absenteeism and ensure action is taken accordingly
• •Enforce staff dress code within and on leaving the Hospital
• •Facilitate effective change and conflict management
• •Orientation of new staff and students
• •Facilitate staff development both personal and professional
• •Coaching and mentoring of staff
• •Ensure professional conduct and appearance of staff
• •Promote staff wellbeing
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships
• •Work effectively and co-operatively with others to establish and maintain good working relationships that are mutually beneficial.
• •Create and maintain a positive environment where the differences of others are recognized, understood, and valued, so that all can reach their full potential and maximize their contributions.
• •Develop collaborative relationships to help accomplish work goal
• •Maintain customer intimacy through building relationships with doctors, nursing staff, suppliers and building patient loyalty
• •Build strategic inter-departmental relationships to help achieve business goals at Exco and departmental level within the hospitals
• •Foster an effective working relationship with service providers
• •Foster an effective working relationship with Public liability
• DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
• Implementing medical technologies, digitisation, and data solutions for the benefit of our business and patients.
• •CareOn adoption of electronic patient records, e-scripts and clinical orders by doctors and stock management

Join the team committed to providing the best and safest health and care.