Matrons at Port Florence Community Hospital

Job Description

• Managing and supervising operational issues in the hospital. (OPD, Wards)
• Managing the duty roster and allocating the staff depending on the workload.
• Assisting the management to put forward nursing policies and protocols and monitoring its adherence by the staff.
• Finding out the problem areas and discussing them with the management to develop a practical solution.
• Recording the data required for evaluating the quality indicators and measuring the same.
• Accountable for the equipment used in the nursing and clinical care areas.
• Monitoring the resource (linen, consumables, medicine, etc) allocation among different units.
• Encouraging the participation of nursing staff in the training activities.
• Provide on-the-job training as and when variances are observed.
• To go on rounds to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing services.
• Participates in the formulation of Nursing Services, objectives, and SOPs.
• Assists in the recruitment of Nursing Staff.
• Helps in allocating Nursing personnel to various Nursing Services Departments.
• Keeps records and reports of the Nursing Services.
• Assists in planning and organizing the new units in the hospital.
• Takes regular hospital rounds.
• Supervises care given in various departments
• Member of several hospital committees, e.g. Infection Control Committee, Pharmacy & therapeutics.
• Interprets the policies & procedures of the hospital care to subordinate staff and others.
• Acts as a liaison officer between the Nursing Staff and the management.
• Attends to emergency calls in rotation/shifts concerning hospital problems.
• Review medication errors/adverse reaction/sentinel events.
• Review outcome measures in the hospital.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• At least three (3) years’ experience in a senior management position
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated; willingness to take risks, high level of integrity, diplomacy and negotiation skills.