Director of Nursing New Career Framework

Job Description

General Information
Job Title: /

Director of Nursing/Midwifery – Grade 113

Job Family:Nursing / Division: All
Reporting Relationships and Key Interactions
Reports to
  • Assistant Executive Director of Nursing(facility)
CEO (Al Wakra only)
Professionally accountable
  • Executive Director of Nursing
Direct reports
  • Head Nurse, Nursing House Supervisor, Charge Nurse, Case Manager (HHCS) Graduate Registered Nurse, Registered Nurse, Nursing aide, Ward clerk, Technician, Patient care attender, Driver (HHCS)
/ Key Interactions
  • The nursing community, physicians, allied health professionals, administrators and all other members of the multi-disciplinary team

Responsibilities
Job Summary
The Director of Nursing (DoN) is responsible for the clinical leadership aspects of adefined group of clinical departments/units to include organizing, developing, directing, and assuring the delivery of cost effective, quality patient care. The DoN ensures that patient care on the unit(s)/ clinical area(s) is performed in accordance with established corporate wide policies and procedures, nursing standards, the HMC Code of Professional Behaviour and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
Common Responsibilities
This job description should be read in conjunction with the HMC Registered Nurse/Midwife Scope of Practice, the HMC Competency Framework for the Management Track, HMC Code of Leadership Behaviours and the HMC Code of Professional Behaviour and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
To fulfil the responsibilities above, the Director of Nursing, in collaboration with nursing personnel and members of other disciplines, engages in the following activities:
  • Provides skilled safe, holistic and culturally competent, person-centred nursing care to patients, families, community and society, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team irrespective of healthcare settings.
  • Participates in nursing and organizational policy formulation and decision-making.
  • Facilitates participation of staff in nursing and organizational policy formulation and decision-making.
  • Accepts organizational accountability for services provided to recipients.
  • Evaluates the quality and appropriateness of care.
  • Provides guidance for and supervision of personnel accountable to the Director of Nursing.
  • Accepts accountability for own actions and decision-making and for the related outcome.
  • Delivers nursing care and practices embedding the HMC Registered Nurse/Midwife Scope of Practice as the ethical and professional framework alongside consideration of the socio-cultural needs of patients, families, communities and society.
  • Functions at all times in accordance with legislative, regulatory and policy guidelines relevant to registered nursing practice.
  • Provides skilled safe, holistic and culturally competent, person-centred nursing care to patients, families, community and society, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team irrespective of healthcare settings.
  • Maintains and demonstrates clinical competence in all aspects of care provided to patients on specific unit(s).
  • Attends to emergency / crisis situations calmly and effectively role models behaviours and skills for the nursing team.
  • Develops, implements, evaluates, revises and provides input to the patients’ plan of care and provides care according to the plan of care.
  • Administers and over see’s the administration of medications and therapies in a safe, timely and effective manner in accordance with HMC policy.
  • Uses communication skills to ensure that other members of the health care team, the patient and their family are, and remain, fully informed.
  • Exhibits leadership qualities and manages nursing care safely, efficiently and ethically.
  • Ensures nursing practice meets organizational quality and safety standards and guidelines and participates in continuous quality improvement.
  • Maintains and promotes customer satisfaction through effective customer service.
  • Delegates and provides supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice.
  • Demonstrates commitment to the development of other members in the healthcare team, as well as patients, families, community and society.
  • Assumes responsibility for own professional development through lifelong learning to ensure continued competence and performance improvement.
  • Enables and provides information on maintaining and optimizing health and maximizing self-care.
  • Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
  • Uses data systems to enhance the quality and delivery of patient care.
  • Uses research, evaluation, service improvement and audit findings to enhance the quality of patient care and protect the rights of those participating.

Specific Responsibilities
Specific experience
Specific qualification(s)
Specific competences
Job Requirements
Educational Qualifications & Certificates
Essential Education:
  • Masters of Science in Nursing/Midwifery (or field of health practice e.g. Mental Health) or postgraduate education leading to, or in addition to, a valid nursing license that meets the requirements for licensing in the State of Qatar.

Preferred Education:
  • As above

Required certification/licensure:
  • Valid nursing license from the country of origin AND be eligible for license in the Supreme Council for Health State of Qatar
  • Relevant life support/resuscitation certificates preferred, but there will opportunity to undertake as part of orientation
  • Valid driver’s licence (HHCS only)

Experience
Essential Experience:
  • Minimum of 5 years’ post nursing registration experience
  • Including a minimum of 2 years’ experience managing people
  • Evidence of extensive nurse leadership across specialties
  • Evidence of personally leading change management activities and improvements
  • Evidence of personally leading a patient experience change
  • Demonstrate a quality improvement cycle and the effect on patient care
  • Demonstrates and evidences interprofessional working practices that have benefited patient care

Preferred Experience:
  • As above

Skills
Language Skills:
  • English – reading, writing, spoken – proficient (essential)
  • Arabic (preferred)
Computer Skills:
  • Competent IT skills that enable online literature searching, and presentation of feedback/learning to peers using powerpoint and/or word programs.

Competencies
Common Leadership and Professional Competencies
The professional and behavioural expectations of all nurses are outlined in the HMC Code of Leadership Behaviours and the HMC Code of Professional Behaviour and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives. These documents should be read in conjunction with the Job Description.
They outline the importance of putting the patient first, taking professional responsibility, being committed to advance and inspire colleagues and integrating with the multiprofessional team for the benefit of patients.
Specific/Technical/Functional Competencies
Managerial/Leadership
  • Leads a group of nurses across a defined clinical area to provide the best care to patients
  • Works to create and maintain healthy work environments
  • Promotes the advancement of the profession
  • Contributes to the development and continuous improvement of organizational systems
  • Works in an inter professional way for the benefit of patients
Clinical Practice
  • Leads the clinical nursing services across a defined patient speciality e.g medical nursing, ITU nursing
  • Assures that resource allocations are based on identified needs and valid nursing workload measures
  • Serves as an expert for peers
  • Supports the integration of clinical human and financial resources to enhance and complete the decision making process across a division
  • Demonstrates collaborative multidisciplinary partnership towards achievement of optimum patient outcomes
  • Actively manages and supports incident investigation and implementation of strategies for improvement
  • Evaluates the practiceenvironment and the quality of nursing care in relation to existing evidence
  • Ensures that patient outcomes are monitored and action plans developed accordingly
  • Role models behaviours and ensure that nursing has a voice
  • Utilizes effective and appropriate communication tools
  • Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team for the benefit of patients
Research & Evidence based practice
  • Participates in evidenced based practice projects
  • Demonstrates and articulates understanding of evidenced based practice
  • Promotes integration of the application of evidence to achieve best practice in the area of expertise
  • Fosters a learning environment conducive to professional development
Education, Learning and Development
  • Undertakes continuing education at a minimum compliant with the Supreme Council of Health requirements for relicensure
  • Evaluates and updates specialty educational plan in conjunction with the Nursing and Midwifery Education and Research Department
  • Promotes and supports professional development through individualized career planning
  • Undertakes presentations within the clinical environment at least annually
  • Promotes positive orientation and preceptoring process through support
  • Develops and sustains personal and professional knowledge/skills, maintaining a professional portfolio

Note: The Job Description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing organizational needs.
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June 2014

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