Senior Home Nursing Manager
Job Summary
The Senior Nurse Manager will oversee home nursing operations, ensuring clinical standards and MOH guideline compliance. This role involves leading clinical teams, managing resource utilization, and fostering a culture of professional excellence. You will develop strategic initiatives to improve service delivery and ensure high-quality patient care within the home care setting.
Responsibilities
- Plan and coordinate nursing activities and resources
- Ensure compliance with MOH guidelines and service standards
- Lead and mentor nursing and clinical staff
- Develop strategic plans for clinical service delivery
- Oversee clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives
Required Skills
- Registered Nurse (Singapore Nursing Board)
- Minimum 5 years of nursing management experience
- Clinical leadership and staff development
- SOP development and quality audit
- Strategic planning and KPI management
Job Details
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Be responsible for planning, coordinating, directing and evaluating nursing activities and resource utilization.
- Ensure that quality and standards meet the requirements of MOH guideline, service requirement and policy and procedure.
- Lead, facilitate and promote clinical safety and risk management practices among the nursing and care staff in collaboration with related departments.
- Work with key stakeholders to develop emerging roles and new skills.
- Direct and active participation in service planning, implementation and evaluation in overall resource management of the department, including continuous quality audit and performance measures specific to the clinical area.
- Ensure the application of best practice including the generation of action plans to continuously improve the provision of services.
- Collaborate with top management, interdisciplinary teams and external stakeholders to develop, implement and evaluate programs and services.
- Create a culture of accountability, openness to change, respect for the individual and teamwork that supports the ethos of the organisation.
- Provide nursing leadership, mentor, coach and advocate Nurse Manager, Nurse Clinician and Nurse Educator to achieve the desired leadership and role model.
- Apply evidence-based healthcare practices, nursing standards guidelines and update / review SOP.
- Maintain nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and care staff.
- Review annual assessments to ensure fair and objective appraisals for staff remuneration and benefits.
- Develop strategic plan in consultancy with HOD, to improve clinical service delivery and to achieve business KPIs.
- Implement and maintain training programmes for the team in respect of clinical knowledge and competence in consultation with the leaders.
- Ensure nurses' competency check is completed according to Home Care service requirements.
- Provide oversight and ensure Home Personal Care service fulfills the standards of the Homes Care service requirements.
- Plan and implement strategic initiatives to improve clinical governance and quality, client care and safety for the homecare.
- Participate in education & training and development of staff.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and participating in professional societies.
- Participate in clinical service projects.
- Demonstrate accountability for one's development and status as a professional Registered Nurse and as a management leader.
- Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned by HOD.
Qualifications:
- Be a Registered Nurse with Singapore Nursing Board.
- Possess a Degree or Diploma in Nursing.
- Have a minimum of 5 years of Nursing Management qualification or other health services management experience.