Clinical Nurse Manager 2

Unit Description:
The Stephen Doyle Endoscopy Department at Beaumont Hospital is a highly specialised interventional unit. It is the referral centre for ERCP, EUS, FNA and EBUS within the RCSI Group and are currently the only centre in Ireland performing ESD procedures.

The CNM 2 in The Endoscopy Unit is a key member of the Endoscopy senior nursing team supporting the Assistant Director of Nursing for Endoscopy.
The CNM 2 in Endoscopy will have responsibility for the flow of patients attending for procedures and allocation and management of daily resources. The post holder will be expected to demonstrate transformational leadership and innovation which is patient centered and in line with the organisation’s values. The post holder will be a credible leader with the ability to empower people and develop staff members working within the clinical environment, ensuring that they are fully engaged in the process of change management and service improvement projects. The post holder will at all times act as a role model to staff and will take an active role in training and development of staff within the unit. The CNM 2 in Endoscopy will actively participate in data collection and be involved in accreditation processes. The post holder will be expected to liaise with multidisciplinary team members in Beaumont Hospital, RCSI Hospital group and primary care teams in the community where necessary. The post holder may be asked to deputise for the ADON in meetings/events relating to Endoscopy.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE
• Demonstrates clinical and professional leadership in the nursing team.
• Maintains personal clinical skills in performing direct nursing care.
• Uses a framework and model of nursing to assess individual patient needs consistent with hospital nursing policy.
• Ensures that appropriate nursing care is planned for individual patients based on need assessment and that each individual patient receives prescribed treatment and nursing care, encompassing medical instructions and conforming to established procedures and standards of care.
• Directs, supervises and mentors the nursing staff in the management of nursing care, i.e. providing professional and specialist advice on the provision of care and demonstrates practical nursing skills.
• Ensures clinical competence of staff in performing clinical activities
• Ensures that verbal and written nursing reporting systems are accurate and adequate and comply with Beaumont Hospital Guidelines for documenting Nursing care.
• In consultation with medical staff ensures that patients and their families are appropriately informed and counselled regarding their condition, treatment/care plans.
• Ensures nursing staff receive the most up to date endoscopy training, and that skills are kept up to date for new endoscopic techniques and procedures.

• Facilitates the proactive participation of nurses in multidisciplinary ward rounds and meetings and user groups.
• Ensures that accurate nursing reports accompany patients who are being transferred to other hospitals or other departments in Beaumont Hospital.

2. EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK
• Promotes, nurtures and maintains a high level of staff morale thereby promoting team spirit and job satisfaction among nursing, and other staff within the unit.
• Supports the management of change in line with evidence based practice.
• Ensures welfare and safety policies are adhered to in the unit.
• Receives visiting professionals and lay visitors to the unit.
• Ensures that all staff practise nursing within the Code set for the profession by The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.
• Reports to Assistant Direct of Nursing (ADON) behaviour outside acceptable limits for whatever reason (i.e. emotional upset in staff, brusqueness to patients or colleagues, undignified behaviour, absenteeism, conflict, etc.)
• Investigates complaints, incidents and accidents involving all patients and staff in accordance with hospital policy, and consults with ADON
• Participates in the development of an orientation programme for new staff members, and assists with the implementation and evaluation of such programmes.
• Ensures that the work of the staff nurse & Healthcare Assistant is implemented to the required specification as per job description.
• Participates in the induction and training of the staff.
• Supports and encourages Staff Nurse &Healthcare Assistant staff in carrying out their duties and ensures that the nursing staff knows, understands, utilises and respects the role.
• Monitors the performance of the Staff Nurse/Healthcare Assistant.
• Supervises supports and encourages the Administration Team in the implementation of their role and ensures that the nursing staff knows, understands and utilises the team effectively. Discusses any problems with their immediate Manager.
• Ensures the correct completion of records and reports.

3. WORKLOAD ESTIMATION
• Ensures that a systematic method for the assessment of individual patient's needs/dependency is implemented and ensures proper documentation of same.
• On a day to day basis the Clinical Nurse Manager 2 will decide and allocate the work to be done by the staff nurses, student nurses and ward attendants.
• Uses professional judgement skills to estimate daily workload in liaison with other hospital services/departments.
• Allocates workload appropriately to provide for individual patient nursing care needs.
• Ensures stock levels of supplies and equipment are available.

4. STAFFING AND MANPOWER PLANNING
• Takes the lead in planning and allocating of nursing teams with appropriate staff numbers, skill mix and level of experience in such a way that will meet the clinical management workload and ensure continuity of patient care.
• Advises the ADON when staff levels fall below or are in excess of that considered to be adequate to meet variations of workload.
• Arranges staff meal breaks in consultation with registered nurses while maintaining service requirements.
• Supports and supervises nursing staff and other support staff in carrying out their allocated responsibilities to the required standard.

• Monitors late attendance and absenteeism, and liaises with human resources where necessary.
• Takes the lead in the preparation of computerised duty rosters, ensuring skill mix is appropriate, while allocating annual leave and study leave.

5. EDUCATION/ STAFF DEVELOPMENT
• Assesses and identifies training and development needs for nursing staff within the unit; participates in setting objectives for such learning and contributes to the development of training programmes where appropriate.
• Implements and evaluates unit orientation programmes for new staff members.
• Collaborates with Clinical Practice Support Nurse in staff education and development.
• Identifies teaching/learning opportunities within the unit and plans to meet these needs in consultation with the ADON.
• Participates in:

i) Staff development programmes to support new clinical services;
ii) Evaluating Undergraduate and Postgraduate training programmes in conjunction with key stakeholders.

• Participates in clinical ward induction training of all new nursing staff, ensuring that staff nurses receive sufficient theoretical and practical training to support their development as safe practitioners.
• Ensures the agreed hospital and clinical policies and procedures are known to and understood by the staff, and are implemented.
• Participates in teaching, counselling and training of student nurses and plans to meet their needs in consultation with the academic institutions, Clinical Practice Coordinator and ADON.
• Acts as an effective role model, by demonstrating skilled nursing care in the clinical situation, for staff and student nurses.
• Ensures that staff are kept up to date with all mandatory training. Provide protected time for this to be completed and report any lapse in mandatory training to the ADON.

6. BED MANAGEMENT
• Assist the ADON or Directorate Nurse Manager in the absence of the ADON, in the implementation of the bed management policy by:-
• Co-ordinating the safe and timely admission and discharge of patients with the multidisciplinary teams and ancillary personnel/departments.
• Managing the utilisation of patient accommodation in terms of placement of patients depending on patient acuity.

7. STANDARD AND QUALITY OF CARE
• Takes all steps possible to safeguard the welfare and safety of patients, staff and visitors.
• Monitors indicators of quality.
• Monitors unit management and clinical standards within realistic targets and explicit limits as set by senior management team.
• Ensures that unit staff understand and abide by policies, standards and guidelines.
• Checks on the quality of all work done by all staff and use of systems in place.
• Monitors and evaluates the outcomes of nursing care for individual patients.
• Preparing and checking rooms and equipment ensuring safety of patient during procedures.
• Identify and act upon potential hazards to patients and to staff.

8. BUDGETING
• Maintains agreed stock level controls and reports any deficiencies to the ADON.
• Collaborates with staff in preparing, implementing and evaluating budget and service plans for the clinical area.
• Encourages staff to utilise resources judiciously by developing economical habits while maintaining satisfactory standards.

• Requests ‘agency’ staff judiciously with due regard to workload and budgetary constraints.

9. SELF DEVELOPMENT
The post holder is expected to:
• Maintain, update and develop knowledge on pertinent professional development and on all speciality current trends.
• Maintain a personal record of professional development.
• Promote and participate in self and staff performance review.
• Discuss present performance and future self-development needs with the ADON and use job performance review in accordance with directorate policy.

Selection Criteria:
Selection criteria outline the qualifications, skills, knowledge and/or experience that the successful candidate would need to demonstrate for successful discharge of the responsibilities of the post.
Applications will be assessed on the basis of how well candidates satisfy these criteria.

Mandatory:

1. Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc
(a) Eligible applicants will be those who on the closing date for the competition:
(i) Are registered in the relevant division of the Register of Nurses & Midwives
maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland [NMBI] (Bord
Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann) or entitled to be so registered.

(ii) Have at least 5 years post registration experience (or an aggregrate of 5 years
fulltime post registration experience) of which 2 years must be in the speciality
or related area.

(iii) Have the clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge
the functions of the role.

(iv) Candidates must demonstrate evidence of continuous professional development.

(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability including a high standard of
suitability and clinical, managerial and administrative capacity to properly discharge the
functions of the role.

2. Annual registration
(i) On appointment, practitioners must maintain live annual registration on the relevant
division of the Register of Nurses and Midwives maintained by the Nursing and
Midwifery Board of Ireland (Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann).

(ii) Confirm annual registration with NMBI to the HSE by way of the annual Patient
Safety Assurance Certificate (PSAC).

3. Health
Candidates for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of
undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a
reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.

4. Character
Candidates for and any person holding the office must be of good character.

Desirable

• Recognised Management Qualification.

If an appointee has previously been employed in the Civil or Public Service and that appointee is entitled to or in receipt of a pension from the Civil or Public Service or where a Civil/ Public Service pension comes into payment during the appointee’s re-employment that pension will be subject to abatement in accordance with Section 52 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and other Provisions) Act 2012.

Please note: In applying for this position you are acknowledging that you understand that the abatement provisions, where relevant, will apply. It is not envisaged that the employing Department/ Office/ Body will support an application for an abatement waiver in respect of appointments to this position