Nurse Manager - 6A (Surgery)

• Interdisciplinary team members
• Nurse Managers
• Academic Nursing Unit
• After Hours Hospital Coordinators
• Commercial Financial Partner
• People and Culture Business Partner
• Clinical Services Staff
• Infection Prevention Services
• Other departments including Supply and Health Information Services

• Regulatory Authorities
• Universities and other relevant professional development bodies

• Registered Nurse Division 1
• Extensive experience and demonstrated knowledge and expertise in cancer surgery and acute care nursing
• Previous management experience
• Proven resource management capability
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to lead and work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrated commitment to excellence in patient care
• An understanding of, and experience with, developing evidence-based practice

• Master’s degree in nursing or equivalent, or working towards (oncology, clinical practice, nursing, management or equivalent)
• Evidence of experience in the design and implementation of an agreed departmental strategy
• Evidence of patient experience methodology and patient centred innovation
• Evidence of active engagement in professional society/organisations
• Evidence of attendance at, or willingness to attend education on, Good Clinical Practice
• Demonstrated quality improvement initiatives/experience
• Experience in document preparation, report writing, risk mitigation
• Experience and expertise with the use of quality management systems and incident reporting systems (such as Riskman)

• Demonstrates leadership and accountability for proactive maintenance and adequacy of nursing workforce within Ward 6A, working collaboratively with Operations Director Cancer Surgery to facilitate workforce development
• Demonstrates leadership and accountability for annual unit budget build in accordance with unit goals and targets (WIES & WASE) and delivery of balanced budget. Meets annual budget target.
• Leads recruitment, selection, retention and performance management of staff.
• Supports senior nursing staff to create a dynamic, positive learning culture for each staff member and to take constructive action if a discrepancy is recognised between actual performance, and performance requirement.

• Leadership of an environment committed to learning and practice evolution.
• Accountability for unit based orientation and allocation of a preceptor to all new staff.
• Accountability for regular in-service education across the Service, targeting the needs of diverse nurses working within and across cancer surgery.
• To inform and define a dynamic program of Service wide competencies in consultation with nursing education, multidisciplinary colleagues, patients and families
• In collaboration with Academic Nursing Unit and Chief Nursing Officer, inform and contribute to a dynamic program of education for Cancer Surgery, and organisation wide nursing workforce.
   

    Evidence of:

• Contribution to a dynamic and responsive program of Service wide based competencies and organisational wide educational opportunities for the nursing workforce
• 100% completion of Service based orientation and allocation of a preceptor (or equivalent model) on commencement in Ward 6A
• 100% compliance with all mandatory in-service training.
• Accountability for oversight of competency levels of all nursing staff within Ward 6A
• Delivery of a strategic professional development plan for the Ward 6A team (i.e. nursing and ward clerks), incorporating effective succession planning and aligning individual staff plans with the strategic framework using relevant instruments i.e. performance reviews.

• Consistently models behaviours that contribute to a culture of respect, excellence, compassion and innovation for patients, families and multidisciplinary staff.
• Consistently adheres to standards and policies of the organisation and ensures they are translated into action across the Service.
• Actively participates in and demonstrates leadership on committees, interdisciplinary and interdepartmental forums informing patient care and multidisciplinary practice.
• Creates an environment where staff are encouraged and enabled to acquire new skills, identify and develop new ideas and outcomes, aligned with organisational strategic directions
• Ensures all staff across the Service adhere to the Nurses Code of Ethics and function within legal requirements of their scope of nursing practice.
• Actively promotes the work of Peter Mac through external committee, professional organisation or academic engagements.

• A healthy and productive working and learning environment for patients, families and staff across Ward 6A.
• Attendance, participation and leadership at senior nursing and multidisciplinary forum (internal and external).
• A knowledgeable, engaged and motivated nursing workforce across Ward 6A.
• Adherence to all EBA, regulatory and legal requirements for self and all nursing staff.
• Excellence in professionalstandards, ethical behaviours and values-based culture across the Ward 6A service as reported in staff surveys, patient feedback and performance reviews

• Establishes and enables a culture of performance improvement and evaluation, and develops and evaluates new initiatives to mitigate risk ensuring quality of nursing care and excellent patient outcomes.
• Responsible for the coordination and maintenance of the quality activities to comply with the quality objectives of the Cancer Surgery Division.
• Management of Equipment and critical materials to ensure appropriately commissioned, maintained and controlled at all times, with all changes appropriately controlled and managed.
• Coordination, development and management of Standard Operating Procedures and documents to ensure safe patient care across the Ward 6A service.
• Directs and oversights the development of KPIs and quality activities for the Service. Ensures adherence and delivery against Service KPIs through active engagement with staff and role modelling.
• Ensures proactive preparation and successful participation of Ward 6A in quality and accreditation activities.
• Promoting a culture of non-conformance and risk reporting and root cause analysis across Ward 6A.
• Participation in audit processes, responsible for attendance and coordination of response/close out of internal and external audits within the Ward 6A service and related departments to ensure ongoing compliance with systems and documentation.
• Identifies opportunities for and actively participates in educational and research activity within Nursing and interdisciplinary contexts.
• Leads and participates in the implementation of evidence based practice.
• Informs and collaborates with research groups across the organisation to generate new nursing knowledge to contribute to a research-based clinical practice environment.

Evidence of:

• Proactive and dynamic annual unit quality plan produced and used to monitor performance.
• KPIs for the Service developed, monitored and analysed with evidence of impact on patient experience and outcomes and effective resource management.
• Participation with, and successful delivery of, improving performance against accreditation standards.
• Demonstrated leadership of evidence based practice, and engagement with research and education.
• Accountability for ensuring nursing practice reflects current local, state and national policies and procedures as relevant.
• Active engagement of patients and families in developing quality metrics for the Ward 6A Service.
• Active engagement of patients and families in considering and responding to Service wide quality data.