Nurse Manager at Oasis Healthcare

OHGL/CLN/LT/08/001

Overall Responsibility

Reporting to the Head of Clinical Services, the successful candidate shall have overall responsibility of a nursing unit. This will include planning, coordinating, controlling and evaluating nursing services to promote quality health services and patient safety. He/she will be responsible in making management decisions in consultation with the medical leads or Head of Clinical Services and other departmental heads.

Key Responsibilities

1. Plan nursing duties in units of responsibility by drafting forth night nursing duty rosters
2. Ensure prudent utilization of resources by allocating nurses to duties as per patient needs and hospital guidelines and policies.
3. In collaboration with the finance department, ensure all the procedures, and commodities are billed appropriately for every patient.
4. Participate in hospital coverage/duty roles as allocated by the HCS.
5. Assess, diagnose, implement and evaluate nursing care to patients using the nursing process framework.
6. Champion quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in the unit as advised by the Quality Lead.
7. Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly reports about the unit are timely generated and submitted appropriately
8. Participate in the development of unit budgets, review of budgets and controls

Job Requirements

1. BSc. Nursing degree and above
2. At least 2-years’ experience in managing nursing services
3. MUST be registered and hold a current license by the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) 4. BLS/ACLS strongly preferred
4. Team leading skillEffective communicator
5. Computer skills and good reporting skills including experience in Health Information Systems