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.
• 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.

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

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)

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