Senior Charge Nurse - Administration (Ghayathi Hospital)

Role Overview

Senior Charge Nurse - Administration at SEHA, Ghayathi Hospital. Leads all nurses in an operational context within a unit or ward, ensuring appropriate bed allocation and staff skill mix aligned with patient condition, and coordinates hospital services during shift.

Company Overview

SEHA (healthcare organization operating Ghayathi Hospital).

Role Purpose

To provide clinical and operational leadership within a ward or unit, ensuring safe and effective patient care through appropriate resource management, quality standards, interdisciplinary collaboration, and continuous performance improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Lead nursing team within ward or unit and report all issues to the senior charge nurse or unit manager.
• Collaborate with personnel from non-nursing departments and disciplines regarding issues that may negatively impact patient care and facilitate solutions as needed.
• Participate in committees and task forces that are interdisciplinary or interdepartmental; may be required to chair, co-chair, or lead such groups.
• Build relationships with staff, peers, and colleagues to support interdisciplinary and interdepartmental planning aimed at improving patient outcomes.

Clinical Practice Management

• Facilitate effective patient flow utilizing bed capacity and staffing resources appropriately.
• Monitor and review staff skill mix and in accordance with patient acuity use available information to align staffing and workload.
• Promote continuity of care that is patient centered, outcome oriented, and focused toward discharge planning.
• Ensure that quality standards of nursing documentation are maintained according to organizational policy.
• Perform hospital rounds to assess, identify problems, determine solutions, and guide teams in clinical and operational management of services.

Communication

• Liaise effectively with other health care providers both internal and external to the organization.
• Maintain confidentiality and security of patient, family, and organization information in accordance with the confidentiality policy.
• Facilitate effective communication between the patient, family, and the interdisciplinary health care team as required.
• Communicate with all units and departments as appropriate to maximize efficiency and expedite the admission, transfer, and discharge process.
• Use information technology to access, transmit, and produce information as necessary.

Performance Improvement & Risk Management

• Support a culture of performance improvement.
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of nursing care provided.
• Actively participate in accreditation activities.
• Audit compliance with organizational documentation standards.
• Support and participate in the implementation of evidence-based practice to promote clinical knowledge and a research-based clinical practice environment.
• Monitor and support the organizational Key Performance Indicators and Clinical Indicators and reinforce corrective action to improve clinical service.
• Coordinate, monitor, and report incidents occurring within the organization after business hours, facilitating corrective or preventative action as required.
• Minimize exposure to incidents of infection and cross infection of patients, staff, visitors, and the general public.
• Ensure staff adheres to the infection control policies and procedures of the organization.
• Monitor compliance with International and HAAD Patient Safety Goals.

Education

• Support staff to provide a suitable environment for patient and family learning.
• Engage in health promotion activities in the organization and community.

Professional Responsibilities

• Identify and utilize various mechanisms to assist in development of managerial and leadership skills.
• Utilize internal educational resources and external agencies to assist with development of managerial competencies.
• Develop and achieve annual performance criteria and goals in conjunction with the Line Manager.
• Attend and participate in orientation and other hospital-based programs as agreed with the Line Manager.
• Maintain and update own professional development through relevant educational activities.
• Maintain and update a professional portfolio.
• Initiate action and report to the appropriate manager when staff behavior and/or performance do not meet professional standards.
• Ensure effective and efficient utilization of human resources, consumables, and equipment.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 6 years of clinical experience in an appropriate and relevant healthcare setting post qualification.
• Minimum 2 years in Senior Charge Nurse (S.C.N.) position, OR minimum 3 years in a Charge Nurse position.