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An employment opportunity is available for a Unit Manager, reporting to the Hospital Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring and monitoring quality nursing care coordinating the multidisciplinary team in the hospital.
Critical Outputs
- Evaluate and monitor nursing quality indicators and clinical outcomes.
- Provide cost effective quality patient care in line with clinical governance.
- Ensure the principles of infection prevention and all international standards precautions are adhered to.
- Implement quality initiatives. Communicate effectively with patients regarding their care.
- Function as clinical expert in achieving patient outcomes.
- Ensure competence of staff and students, determine and drive criteria for effective professional socialization, create an environment conducive to learning and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders.
- Promote customer satisfaction within unit, address customer complaints, conduct quality care rounds and clinical practice audits to monitor care levels and report accordingly.
- Identify clinical and safety risks and trends in all of the above, implement corrective action where necessary and monitor on an ongoing basis.
- Initiate and drive unit specific best operating practice, communicate these for wider implementation and participate in hospital specific marketing initiatives.
- Ensure staff are trained on the operation of equipment within unit and together with relevant stakeholders ensure equipment is in working order to provide a safe patient environment.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with doctors by agreeing on a professional code of conduct, driving and monitoring effective communication regarding positive patient outcomes.
Requirements
- A relevant nursing qualification (B Cur Degree/ or relevant management qualification)
- Diploma in speciality. Experience in a Private Psychiatric facility.
- Five years’ experience working as a Registered Nurse in private healthcare.
- Successful candidate must have own transport and be available to be on stand-by and respond to call outs.
- Registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Registered Nurse
- 2 - 8 years’ experience as Unit Manager
- Computer proficient
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Competencies
- Collaboration/ Relationship Building
- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Resilience
- Engaging diversity
- Customer responsiveness
- Excellence and quality orientation
- Ethical behaviour
- Adaptability
- Attention to detail
- Decision making
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