Clinical Nurse Manager - Perioperative (Scrub Scout)
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**Your role at St John of God Murdoch Hospital**
You will lead all elements of the clinical service provided within Main Theatres, through the effective management of clinical teams.
This role focuses on service development including workforce provision, management and development in addition to quality and safety.
Our Perioperative Department now have a permanent full-time position available for an experienced Scrub Scout Clinical Nurse Manager to join our multidisciplinary team.
At St John of God Murdoch, we now have 18 main operating theatres, an angio suite, endoscopy unit and surgi centre.
You'll be exposed to the latest in surgical technology, including robotics, and work with some of the highest calibre surgeons in Australia who are usually based onsite in our consulting suites.
Our Clinical Command Centre is the hub that oils the theatre machine, with information feeding into and out of a central location to co-ordinate patient flow, equipment and available beds in recovery and on the wards.
Our super-organised CCC Team know exactly where patients are up to on their theatre journey at all times.
Position
Provide leadership and management of the Scrub/Scout team
Ensure appropriate workforce levels through recruitment and caregiver retention.
Management and development of Clinical Nurses.
Producing and managing the master rosters for these teams, to ensure resources are available when and where they are required for patient safety and care.
Leading quality, safety and efficiency improvements across all of these areas.
Actively monitoring and addressing all caregiver performance and/or behavioural issues, including performance management processes where necessary.
Monitoring and taking action on all key caregiver metrics including turnover, absenteeism and recruitment gaps.
Developing an empowered culture within the department, focused on patient safety & experience, caregiver engagement and service excellence.
Ensuring all caregivers in the department are provided with learning and development opportunities and complete all mandatory formation and technical competencies.
Ensure caregivers within the portfolio have performance development plans, where they are held accountable for meeting expectations and agreed goals that are reviewed at least annually.
Accountability for financial management of the department within agreed productivity and salary rate targets.
Provide clinical quality and safety leadership of the Scrub Scout / Anaesthetic & Recovery service
Development of annual quality improvement plan.
Delivery and evaluation of quality improvement initiatives to address areas of need.
Identification of Learning and Development priorities and programs.
Management of audit program and implementation of actions to address and issues identified.
Monitors compliance with perioperative standards and procedures and initiates corrective action as required.
Foster a clinical team culture of interdisciplinary collaboration leading to improved patient outcomes.
Responsible for monitoring reported incidents and leading their investigation and resolution.
Responsible for ensuring, as far as practicable, the provision of a safe working environment.
Fulfils National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards requirements.
Responsible for accreditation and inspection readiness.
Qualifications
You will hold well-developed leadership and communication skills, including negotiation and mediation, conflict resolution and problem solving.
You will have demonstrated ability to develop and build effective nursing, medical and interdisciplinary relationships and teams.
High analytical and report writing skills with knowledge of contemporary computer information systems will be essential for the role.
You will have a demonstrated understanding and commitment to quality improvement, and the National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards process with current knowledge of legislative obligations for Equal Employment Opportunity, Disability Services and Occupational Safety Health and how these impact on employment and service delivery.
To succeed you will hold registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Nurse with relevant anaesthetic post registration and advanced clinical experience within a Perioperative care setting.
Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
Benefits
Salary: $137,294, plus 12% superannuation
A permanent full-time position working 38 hours per week
Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
Novated leasing
Work related expenses
Self-education and
Additional superannuation
A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
Access to gym membership, fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport for you and your family.
Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Innovative Professional Development opportunities
Travel Green allowance.
If you walk, carpool or use public transport you could be eligible for up to $1,500 per year
Application
All applicants are asked to submit a current CV and covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.
For enquiries contact Justin Warren, Perioperative Services Manager, on ************.
Applications will be reviewed throughout the advertising period and interviews conducted regularly.
Apply today
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