Nurse Clinician

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Care

• Take responsibility for the welfare and safety of residents by ensuring that all safety policies and procedures are carried out.

• Review residents periodically to assess their progress and to ensure that high quality care has been provided and to ascertain needs for additional care / services.

• Plan, organize, implement, supervise, and evaluate nursing care and services are provided.

• Provide reassurance to residents and family members and attend to their enquiries promptly.

Quality of Care

• Ensure that residents'/ clients’ complaints are handled expeditiously, and corrective or preventive actions taken effectively and comply with protocol.

• Take corrective and preventive actions where necessary to eliminate or minimize the cause of existing or potential critical quality problems identified.

• Implement, monitor and regular audit on skill competency.

• Ensure that the staff understands and follows these policies and procedures strictly.

• Assist in the research, development and implementation of modern nursing practices that would achieve nursing care of the highest standard.

Training and Development

• Identify training needs and perform with Training department to develop programs tailored to close the gap in providing safe care to the residents.

• Conduct and coordinate orientation, On-the-job Training, dementia care courses, care-giver training and clinical attachment.

• Participate in in-service education programme and carries out post course follow-up to ensure optimum transfer of learning.

• Conduct periodic checks on staff on their learning journal and identify staff learning needs.

Department Budget and Inventory Controls and Managing Regulatory Audits

• Take charge of the smooth and cost-effective running of the department.

• Ensure that all internal documents are properly controlled and disseminated.

• Audit residents' case notes and nursing documentation to ensure that records are up to date and in line with the legal requirements for documentation.

Keeping up to date with the latest happenings in healthcare setting and the Home.

• Attend regular nursing and department meetings that affect policies relating to delivery of health care services.

• In the absence of the Nurse Leader to conduct / attend multidisciplinary meetings to understand resident’s medical, psychosocial conditions and disease management including the designing of the care plans.

• Attend appropriate education programs to further develop profession and keep abreast with the latest knowledge, skills, and technical innovations.

• Perform any other duties as assigned by the Nurse Leader.

• Ensure Roster is up to date. Monthly need to plan roster, to inform if there is a need of manpower.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Post registration degree in Nursing/Advance Diploma in Gerontology or its equivalent

• Registered Nurse

• Valid practising licence with Singapore Nursing Board

• At least 10 years’ leadership experience in acute clinical setting

• Highly adaptable

• Highly effective in interpersonal and communication skills (both spoken and written)