Duties & Responsibilities:

• Nursing Staff management: Supervise and take pertinent initiatives to deliver patient centric care from nurses, lead in acquisition of top nursing care talent, develop manpower plans for nursing staff, ensure nursing staff engagement and serve as the highest level of escalation of all nursing care issues.
• Manage Nursing Care: Develop treatment plans for patients, spearhead patient and nursing staff apathy, oversee continuous development initiatives, schedule and plan admission, transfers and discharge of patients. Maintain accurate records of patients
• Administration and Documentation: Ensure that all administration and documentation requirements are initiated and completed in a professional and timely manner by documenting relevant patient care records in accordance to the set guidelines
• Quality/Safety and Risk Management: Actively participate in quality improvement activities and ensure compliance with all standards, safety regulation, hospital policies and procedures
• Customer Service: Foster a culture of clinical excellence that is based on patient centred care, collaboratively working with staff to focus on the quality and safety of services at M.P Shah
• Carry out ward rounds regularly in order to be in touch with patients and check the environment, availability and effective utilisation of resources and monitor quality delivery of service to patients
• Nursing Care Budgetary Control: Ensure optimal use of departmental resources, rollout continuous improvement initiatives for increased efficiency leveraging on existing information by overseeing patient centric management of patients through management, supervision and manpower planning for nursing staff and nursing care budgetary plans
• Learning and Development: Identify continuing education requirements for nursing and health care workers and assist with the development and implementation of the training plan and calendar to ensure that they are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge
• Staff Development and Training: Offer mentorship and coaching plans for nursing staff, identify, and develop competence development plans for staff and develop training plans for staff.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum five (8) years nursing experience with three years in a leadership or managerial role
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or relevant basic degree from a recognized institution
• Higher Diploma in Critical Care Nursing.
• Must be registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya
• Certification course on management or leadership
• Licensure with the Nursing council of Kenya