CNM 2 OOH Raheny Community Nursing Unit

Position Summary:

The appointment of the CNM II is an essential element in the provision of effective high quality person-centred care and management of Residents in RCNU.

The aim of the role is to provide leadership and support for staff in providing person-centred care for the needs of the residents. It will involve a strong clinical component together with a supportive/ governance role liaising with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as appropriate to the care of the residents and their families.

The post holder will work as a key member of the nursing team in the Unit providing physical psychological social and emotional support to the residents and their families.

Clinical/Operational Management

1. Liaise appropriately with the Out of Hours Multidisciplinary Team members to ensure safe and effective care.
2. Provides leadership and management in conjunction with the Units CNMs PIC and Provider
3. Assist and direct Nursing Services ensuring that a high standard of resident care is maintained on all Units.
4. Support and ensure staff in implementation of Unit procedures and policies.
5. Support staff learning within clinical area.
6. Ensure that verbal and written nursing reporting systems are accurate and adequate and that nursing reports accompany patients who are being transferred to other units/centres.
7. Direct supervise and mentor staff by providing advice on the delivery of nursing care and demonstrate practical nursing skills where appropriate.
8. Maintain contact with acutely ill/deteriorating residents throughout the Unit and provide clinical expertise to staff.
9. Attend clinical emergencies throughout the Unit and follow up with appropriate guidance and support.
10. Manage major incidents or internal emergencies within the campus and liaise appropriately with Beaumont Hospital out of hours.
11. Arrange meal breaks in such a way that the Unit is adequately covered with experienced Nurses.
12. Monitor sick leave and late attendances receive calls from staff reporting sick and implement the sick leave regulations in consultation with CNM III.
13. Handle staff complaints grievances and disciplinary matters in accordance with hospital policy and report to DNM as necessary on serious or unresolved issues.
14. Enable staff to deliver and support residents with the social well-being interests and monitoring of same.
15. Act as a champion to actively promote residents human right.

Quality
1. Takes all steps possible to safeguard the welfare of residents through actively leading in the delivery of high standards of care e across all Units in the Out of Hours period and puts systems in place in conjunction with the PIC to ensure standards are being met.
2. Monitor and evaluate outcomes of nursing care for individual residents.
3. Monitor the quality of work done by individual members of the healthcare team.
4. Encourages a culture of continuous improvement in the achievement of the highest possible standards of care.
5. Participates in measuring and monitoring nursing metrics and associated action plans within Units.
6. Monitors and evaluates outcomes of service and contributes to the development and implementation of best practice and to improvement plans and strategies within the service.
7. Works in conjunction with the nursing team to ensure all relevant national and regulatory standards are being met. e.g. HIQA
8. Participates in appropriate clinical audit in the Out of Hours period as directed by the PIC.
9. Contributes to projects which improve the quality of life of residents.
10. Will use quality improvement methodologies to ensure the delivery of quality improvement projects that will provide safer better healthcare for residents.
11. To ensure that the Out of Hours service in conjunction with the PIC has an effective process for risk assessment and risk management in respect of identification and managing risks.
12. Maintains and promotes the national standards for infection prevention and control in the Out of Hours period.
13. To be responsible for ensuring that adverse incidents involving residents care are reported and investigated promptly respecting confidentiality taking preventative action where necessary to ensure that IQS procedures are adhered to and fully implemented.
14. To ensure serious reportable events are managed as per HSE and HIQA national guidelines.

Service Development
1. Participates in the development of the Units Clinical Audit and Safety framework.
2. Sets objectives and KPIs in conjunction with the PIC to monitor the effectiveness of the role.
3. Participates in the formulation and review of specific policies procedures and protocols in collaboration with the appropriate stake holders.
4. Liaises with the Practice Development Unit to ensure delivery of evidence based care.

Staffing and Personnel Management
1. Assists the CNM II/III in managing the staffing plan for the Out of Hours period based on activity complexities.
2. Be aware and respond appropriately to staffing and skill mix levels in all Units.
3. Liaises with the CNM III should concerns arise with regard to staffing or skill mix.
4. Assists the management team to fully implement policies with regard to managing absenteeism.
5. Maintains a high level of staff morale promoting good communications team spirit and job satisfaction among all healthcare professionals.
6. Take all possible steps to promote the development of staff nurses with the aim of facilitating nurses to be autonomous and expert practitioners.
7. Lead in the training and development of the Healthcare Assistant role in collaboration with Clinical Nurse Managers and Practice Development.
8. Identify training and development needs of individual staff assigned to the ward and set objectives for such learning.
9. Identify and utilise teaching learning and practice opportunities in the Unit and encourage problem based learning strategies based on resident care needs.
10. Participate in the development implementation and evaluation of Induction/Orientation Training Programmes Continuing Education Programmes and Post Graduate Nursing Programmes as appropriate Ensure that the work of the Health Care Assistants is implemented to the required standard as per job specification.
11. Ensure that the systems for induction and training of auxiliary staff are implemented in a satisfactory manner.

12. Supervise support and encourage auxiliary staff in the implementation of their role and ensure that nursing staff know and understand these roles.

Professional Leadership
1. Maintain effective communication and professional relationships within the nursing team and the multi-disciplinary team and clinical support services to ensure that a cohesive effective service is provided within the Unit.
2. Ensures that the requirements and code of professional conduct of NMBI for the practice of professional nursing are met and upheld.
3. Demonstrates visibility innovation and flexibility in nursing practice.
4. Provide leadership in clinical practice and acts as a resource and role model.
5. Actively seek research findings which will support clinical practice and participate actively with research opportunities within the Ward.
6. Demonstrate resilience and composure.
7. Demonstrate openness to change.

Self Development
1. Has a creative outlook enabling progress to be made towards the ultimate objective of reaching standards of excellence in the provision of care.
2. Reads current literature and recent nursing research attends seminars and is aware of any new developments in nursing practice and in current and future trends.
3. Attends and participates in staff development programmes.
4. Discuss present performance and future needs with the CNM III.

Finance
1. Monitor the staff complement for Out of Hours service
2. Work to identify and implement opportunities for increasing cost effectiveness and value for money and income generation
3. Assist the CNM III/PIC in estimating the Unit human resource requirements and negotiates these with the Director of Nursing
4. Advises PIC on the expenditure and utilisation of agency or locum staff.

General Management

1. Assist the Director of Nursing/Assistant Director of Nursing/CNM3 in providing team leadership and management in the maintenance and development of a high quality nursing service in the RCNU Service.
2. Liaise appropriately with Clinical Nurse managers staff nurses HCAs multi-disciplinary team and other hospital staff.

3. Act to ensure that problems are identified and resolved.

4. Alert the Director of Nursing/Assistant Director of Nursing/CNM3 and Consultant colleagues of impending issues within the Department.

5. Ensure that the admission and discharge procedure for residents is organised efficiently in consultation with medical teams and bed management.
6. To oversee St Josephs Hospital during the Out of Hours period.

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

1. Post Graduate Diploma in Gerontology

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 appointees 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